Project Director

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $148k - $249k / year

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Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1997

🔬 Science

🏛️ Government

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Science • Government • Pharmaceuticals

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health is a nonprofit health services research and technology organization that conducts real-world evidence generation, clinical and policy research, and develops health IT and data platforms to inform healthcare policy, clinical quality, and patient outcomes. It partners with government agencies (including HHS, CMS, NIH), foundations, and private-sector clients to provide data coordinating center services, disease and treatment registries, clinical trial research, mixed-methods evaluation, and health IT modernization using cloud, AI, and modern development practices.

📋 Description

• Serve as the designated key liaison to MACPAC, holding ultimate accountability for the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of all contract deliverables • Build and sustain a strong working relationship with MACPAC staff, anticipating client needs and proactively addressing emerging issues or risks • Review and approve budget estimates for all task orders before submission to MACPAC's Contracting Officer (CO) and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) • Monitor contract-level financial performance and make strategic decisions to realign scope or resources when costs are at risk of exceeding estimates • Lead transition planning and implementation, ensuring continuity of programming and data services if Arbor Research is a non-incumbent awardee • Provide senior technical oversight across all data acquisition, storage, management, and analysis activities, ensuring compliance with federal security requirements (FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP) • Set and enforce standards for analytic quality, including code review protocols, output benchmarking, and documentation sufficient to support replication of analyses • Guide the design and implementation of the secure analytic environment and external enclave access for MACPAC staff, ensuring it meets federal security and usability requirements • Hold final accountability for the accuracy and integrity of all data deliverables, including analytic files, table outputs, and methodology documentation • Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of cloud architect and data engineers, statistical programmers, and support staff, working in close partnership with the Project Manager on day-to-day operations • Ensure the team maintains sufficient capacity, including surge capacity to respond to concurrent and quick-turnaround task orders • Make staffing decisions, including identifying and onboarding personnel with specialized expertise for specific task orders • Hold ultimate responsibility for monthly progress reports and all required contract reporting to MACPAC • Oversee ongoing compliance with federal data security requirements (FISMA, HIPAA, DUA obligations) and ensure documentation is current and audit-ready • Take ownership of security incident response, ensuring MACPAC is notified within 24 hours of any confirmed or suspected incident and that full reports are submitted within five business days.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in public health, health policy, economics, statistics, or a related quantitative field • 7+ years of progressive experience in health services research or policy analysis, with at least 3 years in a project or program leadership role • Demonstrated experience managing federal contracts or task-order vehicles, preferably with legislative branch agencies, CMS, or similar health policy organizations • Expert knowledge of Medicaid and/or Medicare administrative data, including T-MSIS, MAX, TAF, CMS-64, or equivalent datasets • Strong familiarity with federal data security frameworks including FISMA, NIST 800-53, and FedRAMP • Experience overseeing statistical programming teams working in SAS, SQL, Stata, Python, or similar languages • Exceptional communication and client relationship skills, with the ability to translate complex technical work into clear policy-relevant findings.