Consultant, Federal Health - Lewin Group - Falls Church, VA

No industry is moving faster than health care. And no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward. We need attention to every detail with an eye for the points no one has considered. The rewards for performance are significant. You'll help improve the health of millions. And you'll do 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 250 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.

At Lewin, the Federal Health and Human Services practice helps federal decision-makers strengthen health and human services programs and make informed policy choices. Lewin also works with foundations and associations to research and evaluate complex health care and human services needs. By delivering objective, data-driven research, technical assistance, and evaluations including access to proprietary data sets, Lewin is able to support current program activities, inform future program investments and support strategic decision processes.

As a Consultant, you will lead and coordinate complex components of large projects or a series of smaller projects with responsibility for applying advanced methods and techniques in a particular field of specialization. You will actively participate in all aspects of client work including project planning and execution, client presentations, and issue resolution.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Overseeing day-to-day management of project tasks


• Advanced quantitative and/or qualitative analysis


• Delivery of high-quality client and firm presentations, reports, and project deliverables


• Participation in business development

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of related experience, or Master's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience


• 2+ years of experience with SAS Programming and quantitative data analysis


• 2+ years of progressively responsible work experience in health care consulting / health policy research, or relevant experience analyzing large data sets

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree


• 1+ years of client/project management experience including managing to deadlines/deliverables, and direct Client interfacing experience


• Specific knowledge of any of the following areas: policy analysis, program evaluation, program integrity, informatics, strategic planning and process improvement

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.

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