Director, Policy Research
Company: American Society for Quality
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is
the national membership organization for the nation's federally
qualified health centers (also known as FQHCs or Community Health
Centers). Health centers are nonprofit, community-directed health
clinics that provide access to high-quality, culturally competent,
and comprehensive care to people living in medically underserved
areas. NACHC strengthens the health center movement through
advocacy, training, and technical assistance, clinical and
operations support. NACHC is committed to an equitable, diverse,
and inclusive workplace. Reporting to the SVP of Public Policy and
Research, the Director of Policy Research will be responsible for
leading, planning, and executing key research activities, with a
special focus on informing and supporting NACHC's policy and
advocacy research priorities. They will oversee and produce a wide
variety of research and data-driven publications, tools, and
analyses that educate policymakers and others on health center
value, health center contributions to advancing health equity, and
the impacts of policy changes on the patients and communities
health centers serve. In addition to working closely with the
Director, they will work with NACHC federal policy, regulatory
policy, state policy, and advocacy teams in order to prioritize and
proactively plan research activities at the federal and state
levels. The Director of Policy Research will also supervise staff
and work collaboratively with other NACHC divisions in support of
their research and data needs. Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain a policy research agenda that is responsive
to NACHC and health centers' rapidly evolving policy and advocacy
priorities, specified by clear and achievable workplans, and
focused on health equity and the diverse communities health centers
serve.
- Lead and develop policy research that targets decision makers,
informs a diverse array of advocates and stakeholders, is
reflective of health centers' unique circumstances and model of
care, and is concise, convincing, evidence-driven, and
impactful.
- Develop, oversee, and/or execute a wide variety of quantitative
and qualitative analyses, publications, data driven tools. These
include but are not limited to fact sheets, infographics,
interactive impact calculators, briefs, chartbooks, surveys, and
peer review articles.
- Ensure accuracy, appropriateness, and timeliness of Research
Department analyses, publications, and other resources, ensure
these resources utilize the most appropriate methodologies, and
ensure these resources adhere to data use requirements and funder
expectations.
- Stay current on relevant policy issues and legislative
developments, as well as health center research and operational
challenges, in order to proactively plan policy research.
- Identify and utilize a wide variety of data sources. Where
possible, inform the development of federal and other data sets in
order to ensure data can effectively track health center
experiences and the needs of special/vulnerable populations and
racial/ethnic minorities.
- Oversee and guide dissemination of Research Department
public-facing documents. Ensure these documents meet the needs of
targeted audiences, which may include policymakers, payers, the
press, and/or health center stakeholders, including consumer
boards.
- Oversee the development, testing, and administration of survey
instruments and analysis. This includes collection of impact
stories from the field and the analysis of this qualitative
data.
- Build relationships and collaborations with external research
partners with the aim of extending health center and NACHC research
priorities.
- Build relationships with research and data staff from Primary
Care Associations (PCAs) and Health Center Controlled Networks
(HCCNs). Provide technical assistance on health center data and
research.
- Liaison with the Bureau of Primary Health Care's Data Branch,
helping to develop and maintain a collaborative and supportive
relationship between staff.
- Actively participate in regular Public Policy and Research
Division strategy, planning, management, and leadership
meetings.
- Facilitate and support NACHC's internal Research Collaboration
Workgroup, which reviews requests to endorse research activities
from external groups and NACHC health center surveys. Update as
needed .
- Supervise and mentor staff.
- Represent NACHC and the Research Department at various
meetings. Organize, conduct, and/or participate in workshops,
education sessions, and poster programs at NACHC and other
conferences as appropriate.
- Occasional travel.
- Other duties as assigned. S kills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- 10+ years of relevant experience working in health policy
research, conducting sophisticated quantitative and qualitative
data analysis, managing multiple projects, and crafting research to
meet policy priorities, including at 5+ years supervising research
staff and leading the development and execution of policy
research.
- Master's degree in public health, public policy, public
administration, or related field.
- Proven ability to tie policy goals to data- and research-driven
analyses and synthesize complex research to lay audiences.
- Experience applying creative data-driven problem-solving skills
to answer urgent and rapid-turnaround research questions.
- Have deep knowledge on public and private datasets pertaining
to health center patients and national public health outcomes and
demonstrated experience creating policy-focused analyses using
these data.
- Experience mentoring and supporting staff.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Experience customizing resources for different audiences.
- Understanding of a wide variety of emerging primary care and
equity issues affecting health centers, their patients, and the
communities they serve.
- Ability to accomplish multiple short- and long-term work
activities independently and under tight deadlines.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and Access,
and statistical software such as R, SAS, STATA, or SPSS.
Understanding of Tableau or other visualization software and/or
experience working with relational databases in Access or SQL is
helpful but not required.
- Experience developing qualitative tools (i.e. surveys, focus
groups, key informant interviews) and leading subsequent research;
proficiency in SurveyMonkey or Qualtrics.
- Detail-oriented, self-motivated, inquisitive, analytical, and
able juggle multiple tasks in a fast-paced, team-oriented
environment.
- Experience with GIS applications, such as ArcGIS or QGIS, a
plus but not required.
Keywords: American Society for Quality, Alexandria , Director, Policy Research, Executive , Alexandria, Virginia
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