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Rutgers The State University Research Project Manager in New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Recruitment/Posting Title Research Project Manager
Job Category Staff & Executive - Project/Program Management/Planning
Department Center for State Health Policy
Overview
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is distinguished in its many efforts to advance health and wellness, and its broad reach, diversity, and expertise provides opportunities to address a wide array of health challenges. The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH) facilitates collaboration among the social and behavioral sciences, clinical disciplines, basic sciences and related fields to promote research on critical population health issues. Tobias Gerhard serves as the director of IFH and brings together scholars across and beyond Rutgers into a vibrant interdisciplinary network that advances high quality research in core areas:* Behavioral Health
* Health Economics
* Social and Cultural Determinants of Health
* Pharmacoepidemiology
* Violence Prevention
* Health Disparities
* Aging Research
* State Health Policy
* Health Services Research
The Institute communicates with many diverse audiences, including Rutgers faculty and students, government agencies (U.S. and abroad), nongovernmental organizations in various regions of the world, industries, foundations, and individual donors.
Posting Summary
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Research Project Manager for The Rutgers Center for State Health Policy (Center/CSHP) within the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research (IFH). This position requires advanced quantitative and qualitative research and project coordination skills and will support the Center's broad health services research portfolio. The selected candidate will receive strong policy and research mentorship from the Executive Director and a talented team of faculty and research staff at the Center. The incumbent will be given the opportunity to participate in policy meetings with senior state officials, as appropriate, and will be introduced to a broad array of health policy stakeholders in New Jersey. The incumbent will develop and implement statistical analyses and modeling of exposures, treatments, and healthcare outcomes, serving as a core member of investigative teams for several major health services research studies including the NJ Medicaid 115 Waiver Demonstration and providing statistical expertise and support to investigative teams.
Among the key duties of the position are the following:
  • Develops and manages project workplans for carrying out analyses of data; and provides technical advice to faculty researchers.
  • Specific research tasks assigned to the Research Project Manager as required include statistical analysis and modeling implemented in SAS and other software; grant development; and research project management and dissemination.
  • Implements complex statistical analyses of health care claims data including millions of Medicare and Medicaid claims and other research data; interfaces with scientific collaborators at other institutions; and prepares reports of analytic results.
  • Contributes to project analytic planning including taking the lead on the data analysis of assigned projects with particular emphasis on integrated health care claims data understands and keeps abreast of all federal state, agency, grant, and center standards for ensuring data privacy protection.
  • Collaborates with other members of the investigative team in developing projects that expand the Center's big data capabilities and capacity to address data-based health services and policy issues.
  • Drafts analytic sections of grant applications including measures and statistical analysis plans, timetables and Gantt charts.
  • Provides project management to assure timely completion of project and paper timelines, keeping other project team members informed about progress of analyses and results; and is primary or secondary author for refereed publications of original, high-quality scholarship.
  • Presents papers at organized scholarly and professional meetings usually at the national level and collaborates on development of dissemination documents to communicate research results to a range of audiences.
  • Significant additional contributions appropriate to the research program include generating independent research ideas in coordination with principal investigators and chair and demonstrating a high level of initiative and ability to work independently.
Position Status Full Time
Hours Per Week
Daily Work Shift
Work Arrangement
FLSA Exempt
Grade 07
Position Salary
Annual Minimum Salary 91297.00
Annual Mid Range Salary 115559.00
Annual Maximum Salary 139821.00
Standard Hours 37.50
Union Description Admin Assembly (MPSC)
Payroll Designation PeopleSoft
Benefits
Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Seniority Unit
Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month
Position Pension Eligibility ABP
Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience
  • Requires a bachelor's degree in a related scientific field or discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience that demonstrates comprehensive knowledge and understanding of general research principles and practices.
  • Also requires a minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional research experience, excellent communication skills, and computer literacy.
Certifications/Licenses
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • The position requires high-level skills in statistical analysis, as well as expertise in research methodology including epidemiological and health services research methodology.
  • The position has extensive scope for independent judgment in assuming responsibility for high level professional work including project management, scope for independent exercise of judgment, and high-level statistical analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's degree in health services research, health policy, studies, economics or related social science/research field.
  • Minimum of 3 years of health-related related research experience.
  • High level of expertise in application of SAS to biostatistical analysis of health services research data to address health services research questions, with multiple years of analytic experience using SAS.
  • Experienced in the use of Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance claims data, electronic medical record data) and data linkages of very large datasets.
  • Experience with large database management
  • Experience developing and writing funding proposals.
  • Experience in drafting dissemination products for a variety of audiences, including scientific peers, health policy leaders, clinicians and providers as well as patients and families.
  • Experience with analytic methods for analysis of healthcare episodes in healthcare claims data, including definition of index events, construction of lookback periods, and longitudinal analysis of outcomes within episodes.
  • Experience with analysis of healthcare utilization and with integration of geographically based data with individual level healthcare datasets to support multilevel analyses.
  • Knowledge of health services research methods applied to behavioral health studies.
Equipment Utilized
  • MS Office
  • SAS
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Special Conditions
Posting Details

Posting Number 24ST2807
Posting Open Date 12/05/2024
Special Instructions to Applicants
Regional Campus Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Home Location Campus Rutgers University - New Brunswick
City New Brunswick
State NJ
Location Details
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