Senior Research Economist - U.S. Health Policy

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RTI International’s Health Care Systems Research Department has an opening for a Senior Research Economist to serve as a task and project leader for new and ongoing research studies and operational support activities. This position will lead and direct analyses for research studies relating to health economics and domestic US health policy research and apply skills in research design and statistical methods to offer solutions to complex health care policy issues for US government and non-government clients.

• Define, investigate/strategize, formulate, and execute approaches and solutions to the most complex problems in client projects and programs .
• Plan/direct the preparation of proposals of significant technical complexity, contract value, or strategic importance.
• Perform research tasks of significant technical complexity, developing and implementing innovative and creative technical solutions to research problems, questions, and issues.
• Direct teams in performing research tasks and modeling of significant technical complexity.
• Translate analytic findings into clear, actionable insights for technical, policy, and client audiences. Author technical reports, memoranda, articles, documentation, and regulations.
• Manage quality control processes across all aspects of projects to ensure delivery of high quality and accurate work products.
• Manage and mentor junior, mid-level, and other senior staff to achieve project goals.
• Develop and manage project budgets, timelines, and plans to achieve goals within available resources.
• Communicate and negotiate work plans, timelines, budgets, and results with clients.
• Design and execute analysis and processing of large, complex administrative datasets with advanced software, programming languages and environments, data analytic and machine learning techniques, while maintaining data security and confidentiality.
• Develop and expand personal and RTI reputation for expertise in applicable policy/technical/methodological areas (e.g., authoring articles published in peer-reviewed journals, making presentations to internal/external clients and at professional meetings, etc.).
• Develop business opportunities by establishing close client relationships, obtaining business intelligence, and being recognized for technical and policy expertise.
• Identify, evaluate, pursue, and lead the response to business opportunities such as requests for proposals from federal and state clients.

• PhD with at least 8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with at least 12 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor’s degree with at least 15 years of relevant experience.
• Experience writing successful proposals for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Expertise in designing studies using medical and/or pharmaceutical claims, analyzing data to answer complex analytic…