Research Scientist ; Health Services Research

Position: Research Scientist 3 (Health Services Research)
Position InformationNY HELP:
No

Agency:
People With Developmental Disabilities, Office for

Title:

Research Scientist 3 (Health Services Research)
Occupational Category: I.T. Engineering, Sciences Salary Grade: 25

Bargaining Unit: PS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary Range:
From $100671 to $126875 Annually

Employment Type

:
Full-Time Appointment Type :

Permanent

Jurisdictional Class :

Non-competitive Class

Travel Percentage : 0%
Schedule Workweek :
Mon-Fri Hours Per Week : 37

Workday From : 8:30 AM To : 4:30 PM Flextime allowed? :
No Mandatory overtime? :
No Compressed workweek allowed? :
No Telecommuting allowed? :
Yes Location County :
Albany Street Address : 44 Holland Ave :
City :
Albany State: NY Zip Code: 12229

Job Specifics Duties Description :
The Research Scientist 3 will work as the Senior Researcher within the Bureau of Medicaid Data Reporting and Analysis and will lead/assist in a broad range of research, analysis, reporting, and evaluation activities within the Division of Data Strategy and Technology Management, as well as supervising junior staff that will provide operational support to the Research Agenda and Peer Review process.

The incumbent will work under the direction of the Bureau Director and Assistant Director. Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:
· Supervise a team that will extract, clean, merge, recode, and/or analyze administrative data sets available in OPWDD including those for quality measurement, billing, external survey projects, service enrollment, Medicaid utilization, and other routine or ad-hoc reporting as assigned.
· Use a wide range of research methods and data sources to conduct descriptive and inferential analyses to support agency-wide initiatives related to Medicaid utilization, public health, service quality, and outcomes. Data sources may include, but are not limited to, Medicaid data, enrollment data, case management records, survey data and data from other agencies and organizations.
· Establish and model analytical rigor and effective use of statistical methods to analyze a large amount of data, including using advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses.
· Collaborate with other research scientists and analytical staff on all phases of research and contribute to healthcare policy recommendations based on applied research findings.
· Assist in planning, designing, and executing research projects, including developing research questions, formulating hypotheses, identifying an appropriate research design and methodology, and interpreting findings.
· Assist in developing and executing new and/or highly complex algorithms and statistical predictive models and determining analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate potential future outcomes.
· Identify metrics that measure progress in outcome achievement and assist in program management and evaluation of OPWDD policy.
· Supervise junior staff that will compile data to support policy briefs for senior staff on key programmatic areas.
· Assist in creating presentations, visualizations, statistical briefs, develop research ideas, draft research manuscripts and reports based on assigned projects and tasks.
· Develop data visualizations showing statistics and trends for public consumption, using software such as Tableau.
· Work with Research Director to assist in implementation and support of Research Agenda.
· Work with Research Director to assist in implementation and support of Peer Review process for Research Scientist titles within OPWDD.
· Respond to routine and ad hoc data requests.
· Assist in identifying and implementing automation of workflow.
· Other projects as assigned.

The incumbent will be expected to perform these duties under…