***Research Consultant, Lewin Group - Falls Church, VA

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting and policy analysis firm with 40 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients:

• Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human service systems


• Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care and family services


• Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation


• Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes


• Create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations, governments, and people to make health care and human services systems more effective

In the wide-ranging field of human services consulting, The Lewin Group provides both depth and breadth of expertise.  Currently, Lewin has more than 180 consultants drawn from industry, government and academia.  They all share a strong commitment to Lewin's core values of objectivity, integrity, analytical innovation, vision and dedication to client satisfaction. 

The Research Consultant will perform a variety of research and consulting-related tasks. Research Consultants work independently, applying sound quantitative and qualitative methods to contribute to framing the analytical approaches used to solve client problems. Research Consultants can successfully manage small to medium tasks, work effectively with project team members and efficiently manage assignments to prioritize client needs.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Performing a variety of research and consulting-related tasks


• Drafting reports and memos


• Independently working on complex assignments


• Assisting with day-to-day management of project tasks


• Managing time effectively across multiple projects, with several managers and competing priorities

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree or a Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of related experience in Health Policy research, analytics and interpretation of health care data


• Strong oral and written communication skills


• Aptitude for interpreting data outputs and articulating findings to managers

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of public programs (e.g., Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, exchanges)


• Intermediate to advanced MS Office skills (especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and knowledge of SAS or other statistical software and experience analyzing health data


• Experience working in or participating in research studies related to the health care or human services industries (e.g., hospital internship, health related non-profit/state agency, or related coursework)

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: SAS, healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, data analysis, quantitative, qualitative, Falls Church, VA