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About The Position

Requirements

• PhD and at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and at least 12 years of relevant experience, or a bachelor’s degree and at least 15 years of relevant experience.
• Experience writing successful proposals for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Expertise designing studies using medical and/or pharmaceutical claims, analyzing data to answer complex questions, and presenting results to stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret regulation and legislation to model the effects of changes on stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of the Medicare program and contextual knowledge of other health care policies.
• Recognized expertise in at least one domestic U.S. health care policy area.
• Experience working with data sources such as Medicare medical and/or pharmacy claims, encounter data, commercial claims, and health survey data.
• Experience designing analyses of very large datasets, including technical programming specifications and languages, and familiarity with or ability to learn federal agency data processing systems, environments, and requirements.
• Strong track record leading projects focused on program design and support, outcome evaluations, or quantitative analysis.
• Experience managing research project and task teams focused on policy, methods, data science, statistics, and/or economics.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must not require employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing complex projects for federal agencies such as CMS, ASPE, HRSA, CDC, and AHRQ, or their state counterparts.

Responsibilities

• Define, investigate, formulate, and execute approaches and solutions to complex problems in client projects and programs.
• Plan and direct preparation of proposals with significant technical complexity, contract value, or strategic importance.
• Perform technically complex research and develop and implement innovative solutions to research problems and questions.
• Direct teams conducting complex research tasks and modeling.
• Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for technical, policy, and client audiences.
• Author technical reports, memoranda, articles, documentation, and regulations.
• Manage quality control across projects to ensure high-quality, accurate work products.
• Manage and mentor junior, mid-level, and senior staff to achieve project goals.
• Develop and manage project budgets, timelines, and plans.
• Communicate and negotiate work plans, timelines, budgets, and results with clients.
• Design and execute analysis and processing of large, complex administrative datasets using advanced software, programming languages, data analytics, and machine learning techniques while maintaining data security and confidentiality.
• Develop personal and RTI expertise and reputation through activities such as publishing peer-reviewed articles and presenting to clients and at professional meetings.
• Develop business opportunities by building client relationships, obtaining business intelligence, and demonstrating technical and policy expertise.
• Identify, evaluate, pursue, and lead responses to business opportunities, including federal and state requests for proposals.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Generous paid time off policy
• Merit-based annual increases
• Bonus opportunities
• Recognition program
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave for all parents
• Financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments
• Financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities
• Employee assistance program
• Other offerings to support work-life balance