Assistant Project Director

Assistant Project Director

Georgia Health Policy Center

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Georgia State University

At the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) we approach our work with a passion for being excellent to positively impact peoples lives and to find creative and innovative ways to learn and fulfill our goals. We are growing and we are thrilled that you are interested in being a part of our team. We are surrounded by individuals empowered to use their expertise and talents to achieve our mission to integrate research policy and programs to advance health and well-being.

Are you ready for us Are you seeking an opportunity with purpose and direction If you are we have the perfect opportunity for you! We hire great people from a wide variety of educational career and personal backgrounds not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our team stronger.

WHAT MAKES GHPC A GREAT PLACE

A knowledge-sharing organization that collaborates with diverse partners.

Professional development opportunities and mentorship.

Competitive base salary.

Generous benefits including health dental vision tuition assistance retirement etc.

A rapidly growing center within an academic setting.

The centers current scope of work includes behavioral health health & health care financing health in all policies health systems transformation long-term services & support maternal health & child well-being population & global health and rural health. The center conducts analyzes and disseminates qualitative and quantitative data to connect decisionmakers with the objective research and guidance needed to make informed decisions about health policy and programs. The center is at work locally nationally and internationally with public and private partners to improve health and well-being.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The successful candidate for this position will lead complex health services research and evaluation projects with responsibility for study design implementation and oversight. Our work involves analyzing real-world administrative health care data evaluating public health programs and policy impacts and translating findings for diverse audiences including policymakers and health care systems. The successful candidate will execute analyses on administrative health care data supervise junior research staff ensure ethical data compliance and manage high-stakes reporting and publication efforts. As a key representative of the center this position will collaborate with leadership to advance research strategies and strengthen data practices.

This is an Atlanta-based in-office position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversee design and management of complex long-term health services research and evaluation studies upholding scientific ethics and responsibility (e.g. institutional review board approvals and HIPAA compliance).

Assess the implementation effectiveness and impact of public health programs and complex health policy changes.

Utilize various administrative health care data sources in day-to-day work.

Supervise research staff on executing quantitative research and evaluations.

Translate and communicate research and evaluation results for various audiences including policymakers academic audiences community-based organizations health care providers and health care systems.

Responsible for report writing including to high-stakes clients and manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Serve as a lead communicator representing the center and projects with high-stakes partners and clients at the local state and national levels.

Collaborate with leadership to improve data practices at the center including implementation of the centers broader research strategy.

Identify funding opportunities and lead proposal writing to acquire funding for scientific projects including federal agencies (e.g. CDC NIH CMS HRSA etc.) state agencies and foundations.

ESSENTIAL SKIILS AND ABILITIES

Deep expertise in administrative health care data including claims data (e.g. Medicaid Medicare commercial insurance or all payer claims databases) hospital discharge data (e.g. HCUP data) commercially available electronic health care databases (e.g. IQVIA or Epic).

Expertise in prospective survey creation dissemination and analysis.

Ability to both lead and execute project work including mentoring teammates.

Experience with the full lifecycle of acquiring and using data for health services research including negotiating and executing data use agreements.

Ability to draft and manage large-scale evaluation plans analytic plans technical specifications and standard operating procedures.

Ability to ensure and train others on HIPAA-compliant data practices.

Highly technical programming skills in SAS (especially PROC SQL). Additional knowledge of R or Python is desirable.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Ability to lead report writing and dissemination of findings.

If not already familiar with implementation science frameworks (e.g. PRISM RE-AIM or CFIR) ability to learn them from an applied perspective.

Evidence of prior publication in academic peer-reviewed journals

Technical mastery of the following data skills:

Relational data management including merging multiple variable types aggregation and disaggregation of data deduplicating data and summarizing data by groups (for example counting averaging summing)

Working with dates and calculating time differences between observations filtering datasets and observations by dates for reporting/analysis purposes

Reshaping data from wide to long and long to wide

Working with both cross-sectional and longitudinal data

Ability to lead analyses comparing two or more groups (t-tests ANOVA Chi-squared etc.)

Ability to lead staff implementing research and evaluation in the general linear modeling framework (regression modeling OLS logistic Poisson negative binomial etc. interrupted time series analysis difference-in-differences models).

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelors degree and three years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.

Preferred Hiring Qualifications

Doctoral degree in public health health policy public administration health economics social science or a related field and two to five years of leadership experience in health services research or evaluation of public health programs.

Prior use of Medicaid claims data and understanding of managed care and fee-for-service health care policy.

Prior experience supervising others (including junior staff graduate research assistants interns and teammates).

Ability to lead publications for peer-reviewed manuscripts.

To be fully considered for this position all candidates must submit the following at the time of submission:

• A complete and accurate GSU application
• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Three professional references

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