Senior Health Economist

Location:

Within BC (Lower Mainland applicants will work from the Health Quality BC office located in Vancouver)
Job Type :
Permanent, Full-Time
Salary Range : $90,770 to $130,481;
Typical Hiring Range $90,770 to $113,462
Health Quality BC (HQBC) is committed to an equitable, diverse and inclusive workforce. We recognize that there are a variety of experiences that contribute to the overall qualifications for each role. If you feel that you could excel in this position, but do not necessarily meet the formal requirements, we want to hear from you!
In particular, we encourage women;
First Nations, Métis and Inuit persons; members of visible minority groups; persons with disabilities; persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expression; and all those who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas at HQBC to apply.
Role Summary  Health Quality BC provides system-wide leadership to efforts designed to improve the quality of health care in British Columbia. Through collaborative partnerships with health authorities, patients, and those working within the health care system, we promote and inform a provincially-coordinated, patient-centred approach to quality.
Reporting to the Manager, Analytics & Evaluation, the Senior Health Economist supports the strategic investment of resources, priority setting, clinical decision making and policy development through health economic and health services capacity development, analysis, and research; operates at the macro, meso, and micro levels within the organization to advise senior leaders on the development and implementation of frameworks for priority setting and resource allocation including the collection of data to support investment decisions;

designs and conducts health economic evaluations of interventions to inform evaluation, return on investment and individual allocation decisions.
Works directly with senior leadership and relevant departments to implement health economic data collection strategies, provide expert level priority setting and resource allocation knowledge; links and analyzes primary data and/or large administrative datasets to model outcomes from a clinical and budgetary perspective and harmonizes efforts with relevant departments; produces academic publications for journals and presents the work at conferences to support knowledge translation.
Key Accountabilities   Utilizes in-depth knowledge of strategic decision-making frameworks to evaluate and enhance existing resource allocation frameworks; educates and trains staff on priority setting and resource allocation frameworks.
Develops guidelines for the collection of health economic data to support return on investment analysis; coordinates with relevant departments to support health economic data collection and decision-making; aggregates and analyzes large datasets and primary data using data science skills including programming with statistical software packages.
Uses knowledge of statistical and mathematical methods to conduct frequentist, regression and model- based analysis to support health economic evaluation; creates briefing notes, business cases and reports to communicate results of analyses.
Develops relationships with academic institutions to identify opportunities for strategic partnerships and collaborations including coop and graduate work placements; coordinates with academics and researchers from other organizations to conduct health economic research.
Supports grant applications by writing health economic analysis sections; identifies opportunities for partnerships.
Qualifications  A Master’s degree in Health Economics, Health Services, Health Policy or related discipline supplemented with five (5) years’ recent related experience in…