Consultant, National Security and Emergency Preparedness - Lewin Group - Falls Church, VA - Full-time / Part-time

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

At Lewin, the Federal National Security and Emergency Preparedness Practice helps federal agencies develop and implement new programs and evaluate existing policies for military personnel, veterans, and citizens in natural disasters. The NSEP team provides research and consulting support in specific areas including program evaluation, statistical and economic analysis, predictive modeling and strategic planning, policy research and payment strategy.

As a Consultant within the Lewin's National Security and Emergency Preparedness Practice, you will contribute to the success of Federal projects through the analysis, synthesis, and interpretation of healthcare data into solution based recommendations.  Additionally, you will direct and large tasks or a series of smaller projects, ensuring that all tasks and/or projects are conducted with sound analytical methods and techniques. As a Consultant, you will manage projects that will include conducting research and analysis in the specific content area of Federal programs, Medicare, and/or Medicaid claims data analytics requiring advanced modeling and analytical methods for looking at problems and analyzing solutions. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing and guiding project research and analytics including but not limited to Medicare/Medicaid claims data analytics and advanced modeling and analytical techniques


• Interpretation of research and data analytics into practical answers to broader policy questions as they relate to the specific content area


• Directing and managing large projects or a series of smaller projects


• Responsibility for project budget management, deliverables, client relations, and staff supervision

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a highly quantitative discipline (i.e. Math, Statistics, Economics, or the like) with 6+ years of post-graduate experience


• 3+ years of academic and/or professional experience in SAS Programming


• Expertise in quantitative and analytical problem solving and/or modeling  methodologies and their applications to research questions


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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree with 3+ years of experience and/or PhD with experience in Healthcare


• Experience analyzing Medicare and/or Medicaid claims data  

The Lewin Group is a division of OptumInsight, part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system. 

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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