Advisory Services Analyst / Project Management Analyst - State Health & Medicaid

We currently have openings for Advisory Services/Project Management Analysts in our Medicare and State Health project areas. This role blends management, technical assistance, and research. As such, we are seeking prospective employees with a passion for project management and an interest in improving government operations and health care delivery. Advisory Services Analysts work on a variety of projects spanning policy and programmatic areas. Example projects include implementing Medicare alternative payment models, operating peer-to-peer learning systems for Medicare value-based care organizations, developing and maintaining clinical quality measures, supporting states with implementing all-payer claims databases, alternative payment models, or tools to support analytics, or evaluating the effectiveness of state health programs. Advisory Services/Project Management Analysts are typically connected to 2-3 projects at a time as project managers or as an integrated task manager facilitating research, technical assistance, or systems development work. Across all projects, Advisory Services/Project Management Analysts are expected to: Provide the management and organization needed to help keep projects on schedule and on budget and facilitate communications across and between internal and external stakeholders. Conduct project management activities, such as helping project directors plan, manage, and close out complex projects and designing, implementing, and monitoring tools and processes to help organize data and manage teams. Perform complex analyses to monitor and evaluate project performance and progress, including monitoring project costs, assessing earned value, and overseeing subcontractor budgets. Develop and maintain project collaboration tools, including Microsoft Project schedules, SharePoint websites, Jira boards, and Excel spreadsheets. Provide technical assistance to state and federal health agencies or healthcare providers by designing webinars or responding to questions from stakeholders. Draft client memos, technical documentation, proposals and other contractual deliverables, such as chapters for reports, case studies, and/or data dictionaries.