Details
- Department: Ascension Data Sciences Institute
- Schedule: Full-time, 8 hour day shift, Monday - Friday
- Location: Remote
Benefits
Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community
*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics.
Responsibilities
The Ascension Data Sciences Institute (ADSI) was created in July 2019 with the mission of supporting Ascension in achieving its Quadruple Aim with uniquely skilled, high-performing associates who develop analyses, models, and applications to enable Ascension in providing higher value healthcare and making strategic decisions. We recognize that the healthcare environment is a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving clinical and economic practices that affect patient and provider experience and demands increasingly sophisticated and complex measurement. Our objective is for analytics and data science to play a critical and foundational role in the transformation of care delivery, quality and financial outcomes to enable our organization’s competitive advantage.
We are hiring a Director, Clinical Transformation Analytics to support Ascension’s goal to differentiate ourselves on patient quality and innovation. Clinical Transformation is a rapidly growing division of the company working to leverage health technologies that include AI, wearables, virtual care, personalized patient messaging, and remote patient monitoring - with our team leading analytic efforts around these programs. In this position, you will be responsible for the strategic direction of analytics supporting rapid development and testing of transformative clinical initiatives. You will partner closely with leading experts in behavioral science to improve health and health care through the use of nudges, gamification, and wearables by developing the supporting analytic infrastructure and best-in-class talent.
Ideal candidates have a background in research methods and statistical analysis, preferably with experience in clinical research with a track record in academic publishing. You will need experience organizing cross-functional teams to integrate predictive and generative AI tools into clinical programs and directing rigorous outcome evaluations. You must have technical proficiency in SQL and Python (or R), a proven capacity to communicate complex analyses to a wide range of stakeholders, and enjoy leading high-performing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the behavioral design team to understand Clinical Transformation priorities, assess resource needs and develop project plans.
- Assess requirements and coordinate with cross-functional leaders on dependencies including data delivery and governance, technology and program managers.
- Contribute to the development of manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication.
- Communicate study design, findings, and insights to a range of audiences, including senior management, clinical stakeholders, executive leadership and academic communities
- Develop team of data scientists focusing on career development and increasingly complex projects.
Education:
- PhD preferred in Data Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Health Informatics, or related disciplines
Work Experience:
- 10+ years of relevant experience strongly preferred.
- 5 years of leadership experience strongly preferred, 2 years required.
- Experience providing high-level oversight on highly complex, large-scale projects
- Experience directing multiple functions within an organization
- Experience in healthcare analytics, including working with EHR and/or other healthcare data, is highly desirable
- Proficiency in SQL for data processing and manipulation, and Python (or R) for statistical programming and visualization, is required
Requirements
Education:
- High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience
required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's
degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years
being in leadership/management.
Additional Preferences
No additional preferences.
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Why Join Our Team
Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.
Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.
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