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

ad1 Our organization is looking for dedicated individuals who love to learn, work towards meaningful change, and have a passion in reducing systemic inequities in health care delivery. If this describes you, we want to speak with you. You can help us achieve our vision to lead nationally in innovating equitable whole-person health. 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.Must have an Android or iOS device which is compatible with the free Microsoft Authenticator app.Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity. ad2 Apply to this job Apply tot his job Apply To this Job