Lewin Group

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The Lewin Group, the Healthcare and Human Services Consulting arm of Optum, a UnitedHealthcare company, seeks experienced PhD researchers interested in conducting rigorous empirical research on the most current policy issues surrounding health care reform. We are a national health and human services consulting firm with over 350 professional staff and offices in the DC metro and Minnesota. We work with the Federal government, States, Foundations and private clients to design, implement and evaluate programs that improve the organization, payment and delivery of health care services.

The successful candidate will lead projects, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and will have the opportunity to conduct policy analyses, evaluate programs using advanced empirical methods, and develop forecasting models for health care utilization and costs. We pride ourselves in creating an exciting, policy focused atmosphere that encourages the use of innovative analytical techniques to solve real-world problems. See our web site for more information on our projects and people: www.lewin.com

Primary responsibilities:
•Design and conduct studies that require advance empirical methods or mixed quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods
•Lead tasks and projects, manage research staff, ensuring that all projects are conducted with sound analytic methods
•Draft research reports, interpret and present findings to the client and to technical and non-technical audiences
•Support technical proposal writing
•Serve as a resource to other staff in methodological or health care policy areas

Required Qualifications:
•PhD in Economics or allied field with 3+ years’ experience post-PhD
•Will consider Fall 2019 graduates
•Expertise in one or more of the following areas: applied microeconomics, labor economics, applied econometrics, health policy, program evaluation
•Must be conversant with the policies and institutions that define the US health care system
•Strong written and verbal communication skills, intellectual curiosity
•Ability to explain complex economic and analytic concepts to non-technical audiences
•2+ years of experience analyzing health care data, especially Medicare, Medicaid and/or commercial claims data or public use data sources such as the American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Preferred Qualifications:
•Experience using advanced analytic or computational methods
•Experience in policy analysis

*The Lewin Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Optum - UnitedHealth Group. Lewin operates with full editorial independence and corporate firewalls.