Researcher, Healthcare Transformations, Quality Measurement

🕒 August 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $92k - $113k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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American Institutes for Research

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1946

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

💰 Grant on 2017-11

Healthcare • Consulting • Education

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

• Serve as a task and project leader on a broad portfolio of health policy work focused primarily on quality measurement • Support the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of quality measures • Support development of measure specifications • Specify, oversee, and interpret descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets • Prepare and lead technical expert panel discussions on measure gaps, specifications, and testing results • Critically evaluate literature supporting measure specifications • Evaluate testing results against CMS Consensus-Based Entity evaluation criteria • Synthesize feedback to develop recommendations and improvements for quality measures • Interpret CMS quality program rules • Communicate methods, findings, and implications to technical and non-technical policy audiences • Author technical reports, memoranda, and documentation • Develop and manage budgets with a Project Manager and communicate timelines, scope, and resources with clients • Ensure quality, accuracy, and consistency through QA/QC processes • Supervise and mentor research staff on project tasks and professional development • Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team environment • Contribute to and lead proposal development

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in public policy, health policy, public administration, public health or related field, or nursing, OR a Master’s degree in one of these fields with 4+ years of relevant experience • Experience presenting technical material to varied audiences and facilitating expert working groups • Experience developing and writing proposals for federal agencies • Experience developing, implementing, and/or adapting quality measures for federal programs • Experience with large administrative, patient-reported outcome, and survey datasets • Exposure to CMS’s Measures Management Blueprint and Consensus-Based Entity endorsement requirements is preferred, but not required • Direct experience working with CMS is preferred, but not required • Strong attention to detail • Ability to lead and collaborate within multidisciplinary teams • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills • Ability to learn quickly, take direction, and work independently in a fast-paced environment • Strong presentation, professional development delivery, and facilitation skills • Comfortable working in a virtual/dispersed work environment • Must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis • Employment-based visa sponsorship, including H-1B sponsorship, is not available • May need to meet certain residency requirements depending on project work • Selected candidates must undergo reference and background checks • Must adhere to AIR’s child safeguarding standards and principles

🏖️ Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program • Competitive compensation based on internal and external equity • Remote work option within the United States • Opportunity for professional development • Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer • Reasonable accommodation during the employment process • Reference and background checks • Drug-free work environment