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• Job ID:   RE.0901049
• Company Name:   Kaiser Permanente
• Job Category:   Technology
• Location:   Oakland, CA
• Position Type:   Full-Time, Employee
• Experience:   5-10 Years Experience
• Date Posted:   October 29, 2009

Senior Consulting Data Analyst

Department: Division of Research

Schedule: Full-time, Regular; 40 hours per week; Day Shift

+++ This position is expected to continue for (2) years work or pending continuation of grant/contract funding +++

Education/Licensure/Certification:

Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, finance, health care administration, public health administration, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or related field required, or equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree. Masters degree preferred.

Position Summary:

Under general supervision, this position exists to assist the organization in making strategic data-related decisions by analyzing, manipulating, tracking, internally managing and reporting data. This position functions both as a senior analyst and as a high-level statistical analytics programmer.

Qualifications:

1. Three years programming in SAS, SQL, VBA; net or equivalent statistical analytical programming language.
2. Experience with analytical manipulation and interpretation of large databases required.
3. Typically two or more years of related analytical consulting experience, healthcare experience preferred. Broad familiarity with medical practices, especially population management and process and outcomes measurement.
4. Experience with MVS/TSO operating systems preferred; if not, experience with another mainframe operating system required.
5. Knowledge of JCL strongly preferred. Microsoft Office skills required.
6. Strong analytic and critical thinking skills, writing skills, communication skills, consulting skills, and ability to work within a team.
7. Ability to express complex analytical and technical information to senior management or to audiences with clinical training.
8. Must be an independent self-starter.
9. Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with macros, AF, and SASGRAPH, PROC Report and statistical procedures in SAS.

Project management experience preferred.

Skills Testing:

SAS required. Experience with SQL, macros, AF, and SASGRAPH, PROC Report and statistical procedures in SAS preferred. Microsoft Office skills required.

Duties:

1. Designs and enhances databases. Designs menu systems that are effective and user-friendly. Develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information. Designs and generates tracking and monitoring tools.
2. Participates in the development of outcomes and process measures, including technical specifications, to enable population measurement, guideline implementation, and evaluation.
3. Tests complex statistical routines using macros, vendor software, and software written by self and others. Tests and maintains data integrity. May assist with sophisticated statistical models and forecasting tools using these databases.
4. Assists with the definition of complex multi-dimensional healthcare issues and develops time tables/processes for decision making. May translate needs, issues, and ideas into effective strategies and action plans. May formulate specific implementation plans and evaluates the effectiveness of actions/programs implemented. Develops creative alternative solutions.
5. May assist in the determination of goals and priorities with team, clients, or project management sponsors.
6. May communicate results/recommendations to project sponsors, clients, and various senior level audiences (including physicians for TPMG departments).

Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.

Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (KP’s code of conduct) by maintaining confidentiality, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable Federal and State laws and regulations, accreditation and licensure requirements, and KP policies and procedures.

In addition to defined technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstrating service behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific departmental/organizational initiatives. Also accountable for consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to purchasers, contracted providers and vendors.

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