The AMA is a unifying
voice and powerful ally for America’s physicians, the patients they care for,
and the promise of a healthier nation. To be part of the AMA is to be
part of our Mission to promote the art and science of medicine and the
betterment of public health. Join the AMA as the Director, Health Equity
Data Use & Research on our Strategy team. As part of the team, you
will support building a Center for Health Equity which will be an organizational
home designed to elevate the importance of and to sustain the AMA’s health
equity efforts. The role of the Center for Health Equity is to embed health
equity across the AMA so that health equity becomes part of the practice,
process, action, innovation, and organizational performance and outcomes. The
best measure of our long-term success and most desired outcome is meaningful,
relevant, and impactful inclusion of health equity into the strategic and
operational objectives of the AMA. You will be responsible for providing
leadership and direction for multiple data and research related projects
focused on establishing AMA reputation as a trusted source of data and
knowledge of Health Equity. Identify and manage relationships with key collaborators
and external stakeholders who can provide access to large public and private
health databases and reporting capabilities relevant to Health Equity’s
strategic plan.
Responsibilities:
Provide leadership and
build the roadmap for Health Equity data, research, and evaluation related
projects:
- Define and lead the overall development and
infrastructure of Health Equity’s data and technical roadmap
- Build a team to support data, research, and evaluation
needs that will inventory existing enterprise-wide health equity data,
evaluation, and research efforts; work with the VP to assess data
resources and gaps in the context of the VP’s organizational goals/vision
and the AMA’s strategic goals, and develop and implement an evaluation and
research agenda that advances the work of the unit and the AMA at large
- Develop an overall strategy and manage enterprise
standards for identifying, assessing, accessing, analyzing and publishing
relevant information from data sources
- Lead efforts to develop and publish relevant
manuscripts, fact sheets, and data reports
- Translate and use data to strengthen advocacy/policy
opportunities
Data collection,
analysis, and technical support:
- Build a database to house, track, and evaluate progress
on enterprise-wide efforts to embed equity in metrics and performance
plans
- Provide technical assistance in implementing an equity
lens for Enterprise-wide multiple data-related projects involving large
public and private health databases
- Provide technical and analytical expertise on epidemiologic
and statistical methods to lead the development and implementation of
multivariate statistical analysis to evaluate the social, system, and
structural level drivers of Health Equity
- Conduct ‘data for equity’ trainings to build and
strengthen organizational capacity of other data, research, and evaluation
staff across the enterprise
- Lead and carry out multiple data-related projects
involving large public and private health databases in support of Health
Equity’s strategy by gathering requirements, developing solutions,
building reports, sharing findings and providing support to Health Equity
project teams, AMA senior management and external collaborators
Identify and manage
relationships with key collaborators:
- Identify and manage relationships with key collaborators,
external stakeholders and consultants relevant to Health Equity
- Develop relationships with internal groups to embed
health equity across the AMA focusing on data use, analysis and reporting
Staff Management:
- Lead, mentor and provide management oversight for
professional staff
- Responsible for setting objectives, evaluating
performance and developing staff
- Identify opportunities for advancing staff skills and
expertise
Requirements:
- Master’s degree (MA/MS) or PHD with specialization in
public health, social epidemiology, health economics or other related
field required
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of data
analytics, with knowledge of healthcare and/or public health information
required; minimum 5+ years in health equity data, research and/or
evaluation; must have a social and structural analysis to advance health
equity withspecific expertise in race, gender identity, and sexual
orientation data collection and analysis
- Minimum 5 years of managing people and all facets of
complex solution development projects to timeline and budget, including
resource allocation management and resource modeling.
- Substantive experience in the analysis of complex
health related studies, including, panel, cross-sectional, uni-variate and
multivariate statistical techniques
- Substantive experience analyzing primary and secondary
data, and a variety of data modalities (eg, surveillance data, claims,
registries, electronic health records, survey responses, patient reported
outcomes, observational studies and clinical trials, and national public
health and/or health care databases)
- Proven track record in organizational leadership -
preferably in complex, multi-disciplinary organizations and team-building
and collaboration
- Experience establishing and maintaining collaborations
with national stakeholders
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of machine
learning and artificial intelligence in relation to predictive models.
- Experience with Big Data trends, tools, analytic, and
modeling methodologies; experience with Big Data cloud based solutions a
plus.
- Comfortable with presenting to others in a clear,
concise, convincing manner.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills,
including ability to accurately gauge project duration, deliver on deadlines,
and manage a workload with possible conflicting priorities.
The AMA offers
competitive salaries, including an incentive plan; excellent benefits and
progressive technology. Our office is a business casual environment and
we respect work-life balance. The American Medical Association is located
at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 and is convenient to all public
transportation in Chicago.
We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.
We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.
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