Managing Director, Medicaid

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $189k - $231k / year

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American Institutes for Research

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1946

📚 Education

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Grant on 2017-11

Education • Healthcare Insurance • Social Impact

American Institutes for Research is dedicated to advancing evidence and improving lives through rigorous research and evaluation. The organization focuses on education, health, human services, and international initiatives, providing technical assistance and data science capabilities to address critical social issues. With a mission to generate evidence that contributes to a better and more equitable world, AIR collaborates with communities, policymakers, and researchers to support evidence-based solutions across various sectors.

📋 Description

• Set the strategic direction for a portfolio of federal and state Medicaid policy and data analytics initiatives, spanning analytic design, data infrastructure, performance monitoring, and reporting, and ensure alignment with evolving Medicaid program priorities and regulatory requirements. • Provide executive oversight across the full analytics lifecycle, guiding multidisciplinary teams on analytic conceptualization, data specification, methodology, validation, and policy-relevant reporting, while ensuring methodological rigor and consistency across projects. • Serve as a senior strategic advisor to federal and state clients, particularly CMS/CMCS and state Medicaid agencies, shaping analytic approaches, anticipating data and policy risks, and strengthening long-term partnerships. • Work with AIR’s program area and functional leadership to create a business development strategy for established areas and specific new areas of growth and identify new opportunities, including coordinating pursuit plans and pipelines for opportunities. • Supervise and mentor task leads, analysts, researchers, TA specialists, and operational staff to build strong, high-performing project teams. • Represent AIR in stakeholder meetings, technical discussions, and conferences related to Medicaid data, policy, and program analytics.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD or MA in health economics, public health, public policy, biostatistics, or a related social science or quantitative discipline. • 10–15 years of leadership or management experience in Medicaid policy, health data analytics, or federal health program work. • Successful experience serving as a Managing Director or equivalent on complex contracts involving Medicaid data analysis, program evaluation, performance monitoring, TA, and/or policy research. • Experience working with or for CMS/CMCS, state Medicaid agencies, or similar federal and state health agencies. • Demonstrated success leading federal proposal development and contributing to winning bids in Medicaid or related health policy domains. • Expert knowledge of Medicaid program structures, financing, policy priorities, and federal-state partnership requirements, including managed care, fee-for-service, waiver programs (1115), and value-based payment models. • Experience overseeing large, complex contracts and portfolios, including fiscal stewardship, risk management, staffing strategies, and operational systems consistent with federal contracting requirements. • Proven record leading large-scale Medicaid analytics or applied policy research initiatives, including authorship and review of technical deliverables and presentation of findings to policy and technical audiences. • Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary, mission-driven teams, including staff, subcontractors, and consultants, and aligning technical work with broader Medicaid program objectives.

🏖️ Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program is designed to reward our staff competitively and motivate them to achieve our critical mission.