Business Analyst (Contingent)

Responsibilities and Daily Tasks:

• Provide innovative acquisition, contracting administrative support and business solutions to positively influence the quadruple aim: increased readiness, better health, better care, and lower costs.
• Provide or coordinate support for areas such as:
  • Administrative support, operational planning, grant and cooperative agreements support, pricing  analysis
  • Business process management, business operations, policy coordination, interpretation and dissemination
  • Contract administration/management support
• Assist with developing  and implementing methods to monitor, evaluate, forecast, and report  progress toward achieving organizational goals and objectives and to  inform team and division decisions.
• Produce, maintain and publish a variety of routine reports and publications for use within the Managed Care Contracting Division (MC-CD).
• Provide technical and subject matter support for the purpose of preparing special reports, studies, analyses, and briefing papers on various acquisition, technical, financial, and business matters related to overall activities and process  management in support of the MC-CD mission.
  • This may include but is not limited to conducting information searches, financial and technical writing and editing.
  • Explain methodologies employed, discuss findings, list alternatives to consideration and rank proposed policy or action alternatives with explanations as to the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Translate MC-CD’s intent/objectives into actionable initiatives. Produce division communication products and documents for briefings, talking points, scripts, notes, etc.
• Use quantitative and qualitative methods to collect, validate, analyze, and display data to aid in decision-making across organizational levels.
  • This includes assisting and developing in grant and cooperative agreement development, utilization and publishing of cost and price analysis reports
  • Analyze data and communicate findings through assigned team and division working groups.
• Conduct targeted research to answer questions of immediate & longer-term relevance to the MC-CD.
  • Coordinate, as needed, with the division and DHA POCs to answer questions and/or to develop initiatives.
• Serve as an action officer for incoming and outgoing actions/taskers.

Is responsible for the oversight of a variety of actions which are characterized by unique requirements while monitoring priority of actions based on the sensitivity of the subject matter, suspense dates and other pertinent data while advising division staff of all sensitive issues raised in incoming actions.

Position is contingent on award.

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree GPA of 3.5 or higher.
• Knowledge or educational background in operational planning, business process management, business operations, policy coordination, interpretation and dissemination, task management, information management, financial auditing procedures, pricing consideration, market evaluation and related activities.
• Ability to develop organizational communication through various vehicles to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to develop, implement, monitor, evaluate, forecast, and report progress toward achieving organizational goals and objectives.
• Ability to produce, maintain, and publish a variety of routine reports and publications at the division level.

Compensation range $55,000-$70,000 annually.