Consultant, State Consulting - The Lewin Group - Full-time / Part-time

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 system


• 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 Lewin Group's State Consulting market helps state and local government design, implement, and improve the programs they regulate and administer. Lewin also works with foundations and associations to research and evaluate complex health care and human services needs. By delivering objective, data-driven research, evaluations and, technical assistance including exclusive access to proprietary data sets, Lewin is able to support current program activities, inform future program investments and support strategic decision processes.

The Lewin Group's in-depth health, long-term care, and human services program experience enables us to help governments understand their constituents' needs.  Our consultants provide options to meet those needs within the regulatory, political, and fiscal realities faced by our state and local government clients. We analyze the impact on individuals, programs, budgets and quality. In sum, we help our clients identify and address their challenges effectively, efficiently, and with cultural competence.

Health reform specific experience:

Additionally, The Lewin Group works with state and local government agencies to develop and refine their health care reform policies and analyze the cost and coverage impact of their health care reform policies. Lewin helps its clients develop options for expanding health care coverage that vary from incremental approaches to comprehensive health reform and include Medicaid eligibility expansions, tax credits for private insurance, insurance market reforms, employer contribution requirements, universal coverage through private health insurance, and single-payer programs.

The Lewin Group works with clients to specify, analyze, and refine their health care reform proposals to meet their unique coverage expansion and budget objectives. Using data-driven research, Lewin models the effect of changes in the health care delivery system on costs for governments, employers, and households and simulate the effect of system reforms on long-term cost growth.

The Consultant 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. The Consultant 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

• Master's degree with a minimum of 3 to 6 years of related experience or a Ph.D. with 1 to 3 years of post-graduate experience


• 3+ years of progressively responsible work experience in health care consulting or health policy research, analysis and/or evaluation.


• 2+ years experience working with Healthcare Claims Data (ie: Medicare, Medicaid, Administrative, etc..)


• Advanced level of proficiency in SAS programming and data analytics as evidenced by over 2 years of programming experience and statistical data interpretation


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


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