Senior Researcher, Medicaid Policy and Financing

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / year

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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

• Manage day-to-day Medicaid-related project operations as principal investigator, project director, or task lead • Ensure deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard • Lead collaborative project teams by developing timelines and coordinating staff assignments • Identify research problems and design rigorous applied studies with aligned research questions, methodologies, and analytic plans • Design and implement impactful research, operations, and technical assistance projects • Lead and oversee analyses of Medicaid claims, T-MSIS Analytic File data, hospital cost reports, and other complex administrative data • Devise and implement innovative solutions to practical challenges in applied research • Lead Medicaid data collection and analysis, identifying trends, outliers, reporting issues, and synthesizing findings • Communicate study progress and findings through reports, briefings, presentations, visualizations, and other materials • Represent AIR professionally in client interactions and manage client and stakeholder relationships • Foster collaborative working relationships with clients, partners, stakeholders, and project teams • Contribute to business development, identify opportunities, develop client relationships, and lead or contribute to competitive proposals

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in a related subject area with 3+ years of relevant experience OR master’s degree with 7+ years of relevant experience • Extensive knowledge of Medicaid financing and policy, including federal-state financing, payment policy, managed care, supplemental payments, waivers, delivery-system reform, or program integrity and fraud oversight • Demonstrated ability to translate complex ideas into actionable work plans and timelines • Experience managing project and/or task teams on research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects • Experience building and maintaining strong client and partner relationships • Experience supporting business development efforts, including grant and proposal writing • Experience analyzing claims and other large or complex data sets • Experience working in contract research and/or evaluation organizations • Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and client/partner management skills • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy when writing • Ability to collaborate effectively in a virtual work environment • Ability to analyze Medicaid claims and other data using R, Python, SAS, or Stata • Must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis • Employment-based visa sponsorship is not available • Depending on project work, qualified candidates may need to meet certain residency requirements • Selected candidates must adhere to child safeguarding standards and undergo reference and background checks

🏖️ Benefits

• AIR’s Total Rewards Program designed to reward staff competitively • Remote work within the United States or work from a U.S. office location • Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer • Reasonable accommodation for the employment process • Reference and background checks • Drug-free work environment

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