Senior Research Scientist
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Senior Research Scientist leading rigorous health services research, evaluation, and policy studies for government healthcare agencies and private clients. Translating evidence into actionable recommendations and publications.
Responsibilities:
- Lead projects focused on client expertise, health policy or health care delivery model implementation, monitoring, program evaluation, and learning collaboratives
- Provide operational oversight and serve as Project Director, Deputy Project Director, or Task Lead
- Collaborate with project managers to oversee individual and team tasks and timelines
- Build and maintain relationships with project sponsors, external partners, internal managers, and staff
- Contribute to business development and independently seek new projects to meet annual Sales Credit targets
- Lead proposals for new contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements
- Oversee research resulting in peer-reviewed publications or deliverable reports
- Translate published research into improvements in health outcomes
- Present seminars and lectures externally on behalf of Arbor Research
- Mentor research staff
- Apply advanced quantitative and qualitative research methods in health services research, program evaluation, and applied research
- Oversee data collection and analysis, interpret findings, and translate evidence into actionable recommendations
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, federal partners, health care organizations, and community stakeholders
Requirements:
- Master’s degree with relevant experience in health services research, epidemiology, health policy, or other social science fields
- At least seven (7) years of postdoctoral research experience at Arbor Research and/or a comparable research-based organization
- Experience collecting and synthesizing qualitative data, especially listening sessions
- Established research success demonstrated by content-area expertise, lead or senior authorship on peer-reviewed and/or scholarly publications, invited presentations, project reports, and/or reputation as a research scientist
- Established success in a leadership role for large research projects
- Established success in business development and securing funding for new projects consistent with the Organization’s mission
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a wide variety of audiences, including the health care community, sponsors, and policy makers
- Established mentorship and leadership skills and successes
- Must possess and be able to maintain valid travel documents to meet requirements for commercial airfare travel carriers
- Must be physically located in Washington D.C., Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, or North Carolina
- Preferred: PhD in health services research, epidemiology, health policy, or other social science fields
- Preferred: Previous experience and desire to engage in business development efforts such as gathering client/market intelligence, learning agency/client priorities to cross-sell the Organization’s expertise, bid/no-bid processes, proposal development, and actively pursuing new projects
Benefits:
- 0.50 FTE, 20 hours per week
- Remote work arrangement
- Minimal overnight travel, no more than 5%
- Opportunity to contribute to peer-reviewed publications and external seminars/lectures
- Mentorship and leadership opportunities
- Base compensation determined by market range and geographic location pay zones, with individual factors including experience, skills, certifications, and education considered
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