[Hiring] Researcher, Healthcare Transformations Quality Measurement @American Institutes for Research

Role Description

AIR’s Healthcare Transformations department is seeking a Researcher to serve as a task and project leader on a broad portfolio of health policy work, with a primary focus on quality measurement. In this role, the Researcher will support the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of quality measures; oversee analytic workflows and quality assurance processes.

• Support the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of quality measures.
• Support the development of measure specifications.
• Specify, oversee, and interpret descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets.
• Prepare and lead technical expert panel discussions to elicit input on measure gaps, specifications and testing results.
• Critically evaluate literature in support of measure specifications.
• Critically evaluate testing results against CMS’s Consensus-Based Entity evaluation criteria.
• Synthesize feedback from across various sources to develop recommendations and improvements for quality measures.
• Interpret CMS quality program rules.
• Clearly communicate methods, findings, and implications to diverse technical and non-technical policy audiences.
• Author technical reports, memoranda, and documentation.
• Develop and manage budgets (in collaboration with a Project Manager), and communicate timelines, scope and resources with clients.
• Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of all work products through appropriate QA/QC processes.
• Supervise and mentor research staff in the completion project tasks and professional development.
• Work effectively in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment with staff of varied technical skills and expertise.
• Contribute to and lead proposal development.

Qualifications

• 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 a wide range of 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 and understanding of CMS’s Measures Management Blueprint and CMS’s Consensus-Based Entity endorsement requirements is preferred, but not required.
• Direct experience working with CMS is preferred, but not required.

Requirements

• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to lead and collaborate effectively 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.

Benefits

• Anticipated Annual Salary Range: $92,000 — $113,000 USD