Senior Analyst, Health Equity

Job Description

Boston Medical Center Health System is a $2.6B integrated health system devoted to the proposition that every person regardless of their social or economic circumstances deserves the best health care. Our mission is to provide Exceptional Care, Without Exception and our vision is to make Boston the healthiest urban population in the world.
Our health system includes:
• Boston Medical Center, a 498-bed academic medical center and the leading safety-net hospital in New England
• Boston HealthNet, a network of 15 community health centers throughout Boston
• BMC Health Plan, a Medicaid managed care health plan that serves over 400,000 members across Massachusetts and New Hampshire
• Boston Accountable Care Organization, a partnership between BMC and local CHC’s created to coordinate delivery of care across our health network
The Health Equity team is working on a comprehensive program to further advance our commitment to improving healthcare by holistically addressing all patient needs, including social determinants of health, mental health, addiction, and physical health. We are also committed to doing so in a way that closes any racial disparities in healthcare outcomes. In addition, we are continuing to invest in our analytic/data science capabilities to apply to healthcare challenges facing our System.
Key projects may include: Which social needs have the highest impact in negative healthcare outcomes? What is the expected impact of certain social determinant of health interventions? Which healthcare outcomes have an observable racial disparity gap? What are the main drivers for these gaps?
The Senior Analyst will report to the Population Health Analytics team and will play a key role in the Health Equity team leading analyses that will guide strategy, investigate performance drivers, and drive innovation that will improve the overall health of our patients. This role is ideal for analysts who have built a strong technical and analytic foundation, and who are looking to grow capabilities in strategic thinking, project management, stakeholder management, and presenting.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key Responsibilities:

• Work independently with business leaders in the Health Equity team to scope and conduct analyses that help the organization understand and monitor performance, break down key drivers, and identify new opportunities
• Lead analytic projects such as development of predictive analytic tools, or segmenting our patients by health and social needs or data validation workstreams
• Act as technical and analytic expert for the Population Health Analytics team
• Create reports and dashboards that effectively communicate performance to operational and clinical leaders and stakeholders
• Translate complex analysis into simple visualizations that can communicate key takeaways to leaders and stakeholders
• Understand health system data sources and support data architecture team to ensure that data is clean, normalized, and accurate
• Establish credibility and trust in data integrity and accuracy across internal and external stakeholders
• Present analyses to senior leaders and multiple stakeholders
• Collaborate across the health system to ensure that assumptions and methodologies are consistent
• Manage multiple projects and analyses simultaneously while meeting key deadlines and deliverables, and prioritizing time and resources
• Identify and elevate key obstacles for intervention that may jeopardize timelines

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree, preference for concentration in economics, math, physics, computer science, data science

Master’s degree in a related field (Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Social Science, Public Health), preferred

EXPERIENCE:

Three to five years of data analytics experience with progressive responsibility, working with large data sets to answer important clinical, operational, or business questions

Preference for experience working with healthcare data, including claims and/or electronic medical records

Prior consulting or professional services experience preferred.

Ability to conduct advanced analytics and data manipulation using SAS and SQL; fluent in Excel

Some experience with advanced statistical techniques, including regression analysis, decision trees, machine learning, cluster analysis, segmentation

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

The Ideal Candidate:

We are seeking a top performing senior analyst to help us build a high performing analytic team that will find answers to difficult question across large and complex data sets.

The ideal candidate will be:

Technically proficient: Capable of extracting data, manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis and working through challenges independently

Strong analytic thinking: Effective at identifying the critical question, capable of navigating the trade-off’s between accuracy / comprehensiveness / complexity vs. speed and simplicity, able to make independent decisions on how to adjust assumptions and analyses, can distill complex analysis into simple charts to communicate key takeaways

Interest in building up advanced modelling / data science skills to proactively identify opportunities and possible solutions

Curious and creative: Capable of finding the right analytic approach, always asking questions and testing the data and analysis to ensure that we are answering the right key questions

Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key projects

Passionate about our mission: Highest level of integrity and respect for colleagues and for our mission to provide Exceptional Care Without Exception to our patients and members