Job: ***Senior Consultant - Comparative Effectiveness Research

Jobing Description

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting and policy research firm with more than 40 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients:

Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human service systems;

Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care services;

Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation;

Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes; and

Create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations, governments, and people to make health care and public human services systems more effective.

We are seeking an experienced project manager to fill a need for a Senior Consultant position in our Falls Church, VA office. The position is available in The Lewin Group Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research.


The Senior Consultant will improve policy and expanded knowledge of health care and human service systems in comparative effectiveness research (CER) and related areas, including in evidence-based medicine, and health technology assessment. Within the Consulting job family, this function provides billable strategic and analytical consulting services to external customers, including the federal government, agencies and associations, payers and providers and assists in growing the business through business development and solid account management resulting in revenue generation.

Skills / Requirements

We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications:

Master's Degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or Ph.D. with 4+ years of relevant experience in public health, public policy, healthcare management, business, or other related area of concentration

Experience and interest in CER and related areas

Ability to multi-task, manage multiple priorities, and strict timelines

Strong oral and written communication skills

Experience in managing and developing client relationships

Ability to manage large matrix teams and align responsibilities.

Ability to develop new business through the contribution of substantive expertise and technical advice.

Specific project management tasks may include:

Managing and conducting comprehensive literature reviews using PubMed/Medline and other electronic databases and analyzing findings to evaluate the evidence regarding various health policy topics and health technologies

Collecting, analyzing, and summarizing qualitative and quantitative data and findings into concise, readily usable reports

Designing and implementing evaluation and assessment projects (e.g., survey development, conducting stakeholder interviews, focus groups or site visits)

Managing projects requiring quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis

Managing conference and expert panel meeting planning and coordination

Preparing and participating in team and client project meetings

The Lewin Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research combines Lewin's expertise in the U.S. health care system with key capabilities and assets from within OptumInsight (formerly Ingenix), The Lewin Group's parent company. It brings together distinct competence and capability in conducting and supporting CER, including:

The Lewin Group's extensive record and independent point-of-view in health technology assessment, evidence-based medicine and evidence synthesis;

The expertise of OptumInsight Life Sciences in clinical, health economics and outcomes research that helps develop better patient care; and

Through OptumInsight, access to one of the world's largest patient databases containing de-identified integrated diagnosis, medical, and pharmacy claims data on millions of individuals. These data set types include administrative, pharmacy claims, physician and facility claims, laboratory test results and socio-economic data that comprise unique assets for CER.

CER compares the safety, effectiveness, cost and other clinical and economic outcomes of health care interventions used to prevent, diagnose or treat diseases, disorders and other health conditions. CER findings can be used to support decisions and policies of clinicians, patients, regulatory agencies, third-party payers, health care facilities, public health programs, federal and state policy makers and others. The Lewin Group Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research will provide analysis of data and policy, and related consulting to support the identification and implementation of CER priorities and advance the field of CER.

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting and policy analysis firm with more than 35 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients:

Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human service systems

Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care and family services

Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation

Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes

Create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations governments, and people to make health care and human services systems more effective

OptumInsight is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

OptumInsight is one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies. We specialize in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology and consulting services that enable better decisions and results. We integrate workflow solutions that deliver data in real-time, and create actionable insights - processing health information that relates directly to and affects one in four patients in the U.S, one in every three Medicaid dollars and one in every five emergency room visits. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.

What can YOU do with the right information? At OptumInsight, the possibilities and the impact are limitless. No matter what your role is at OptumInsight, you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the health care system greater than ever. It's always fresh. It's always exciting. And it's never been more important.

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