Advisory Services Analyst, Project Manager- Federal Medicaid

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Mathematica applies expertise at the intersection of data, methods, policy, and practice to improve well-being around the world. We collaborate closely with public- and private-sector partners to translate big questions into deep insights that improve programs, refine strategies, and enhance understanding using data science and analytics. Our work yields actionable information to guide decisions in wide-ranging policy areas, from health, education, early childhood, and family support to nutrition, employment, disability, and international development.

Mathematica applies expertise at the intersection of data, methods, policy, and practice to improve well-being around the world. We collaborate closely with public- and private-sector partners to translate big questions into deep insights that improve programs, refine strategies, and enhance understanding using data science and analytics. Our work yields actionable information to guide decisions in wide-ranging policy areas, from health, education, early childhood, and family support to nutrition, employment, disability, and international development.

Mathematica offers our employees competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, as well as the advantages of being 100 percent employee owned. As an employee stock owner, you will experience financial benefits of ESOP holdings that have increased in tandem with the company’s growth and financial strength. You will also be part of an independent, employee-owned firm that is able to define and further our mission, enhance our quality and accountability, and steadily grow our financial strength.

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We currently have an opening for an Advisory Services Analyst
- Project Manager with a strong interest in project management in our Medicaid/Marketplace project area. This advisory services role blends project management and technical assistance. As such, we are seeking a prospective employee with a passion for project management and an interest in improving public health insurance program operations and health care delivery. In particular, we are looking for individuals who can support current and emerging work across any number of areas related to monitoring and improving Medicaid programs such as: eligibility and enrollment, section 1115 demonstrations, long-term services and supports, measures of delivery and quality of services for beneficiaries, data analytics and reporting, financing, and monitoring and outcomes of innovative programs and policies.

Advisory Services Analysts work on a variety of projects spanning policy and programmatic areas and are likely to work on 2-3 projects at a time. Candidates do not need to have experience in all of these areas but should have experience in at least one of them.

• Provide the direction and organization needed to help keep Medicaid projects on time and on budget and facilitate communications among the internal project team with subcontractors, and with clients.
• Conduct project management activities, such as helping project directors plan and manage complex projects and designing, implementing, and monitoring tools and processes to help organize data and manage teams.
• Perform analyses of projects to monitor and evaluate project performance and progress, including monitoring project costs and resource utilization, assessing earned value, and overseeing subcontractors.
• Implement and maintain project collaboration and knowledge management tools, including Microsoft Project schedules, SharePoint websites, Jira workflows, Confluence spaces, and Excel spreadsheets.
• Provide technical assistance to state and federal health agencies, grantees, or healthcare providers, for example by designing webinars, responding to questions from these or other relevant entities, or creating reporting tools.
• Draft workplans, client memos, technical documentation, proposals and other contractual deliverables, such as case studies or data dictionaries.

• Master’s degree in public policy, public administration, business, or related field; or…