Research Analyst - remote (PA/NJ/DE) - Independence Blue Cross, LLC

Do you want to grow into a leader at Independence and help make healthcare more equitable for our members? The Director of Reporting & Analytics within the Informatics department is looking for a Research Analyst to help support and guide our health equity initiatives. This position will allow the associate to grow into a subject matter expert in activities relating to investigating and dismantling health care inequities affecting the delivery of medical care and services to our members.

Informatics is hiring a Research Analyst with the following primary responsibilities

• Support data quality efforts for race, ethnicity, language, and social determinants of health data to establish guidelines for consistent and appropriate data use across the organization
• Help expand a social determinants of health tool used in health equity analyses
• Build data sets to describe patient-provider encounters for health equity analyses
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external partners to meet business needs including our government affairs department, customer teams, academic collaborators, and health care institutions.
• Support the interpretation, summarization, and presentation of analytic results in a clear, concise manner for internal clients through clean and direct data visualizations
• Perform and summarize web-based health research to inform health equity analyses

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in health care, public health, statistics or related quantitative area, and 2 years of experience or equivalent in an analytical or public health environment
• Familiarity or professional interest in public health concepts (ex. social determinants of health, community-based participatory research, harm reduction, health equity, public health, etc.)
• Demonstrated SQL and/or R programming skills with experience pulling, cleaning, and summarizing data
• Self-motivated with the desire to grow interpersonal and verbal communication skills, and build project management and problem-solving skills

Hybrid

Independence has implemented a "Hybrid" model which consists of Associates working in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) and remotely 2 days a week (Monday & Friday). This role is designated as a role that fits into the "Hybrid" model. While associates may work remotely on our designated remote days, the work must be performed in the Tri-State Area of Delaware, New Jersey or Pennsylvania.

IBX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or disability.

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