NCQA is hiring a Director of Quality Sciences Innovation. Join a team dedicated to improving health care services that lead to better health and equitable care. This director will support NCQA’s health quality program portfolio by designing and executing early discovery (information gathering and planning exploratory analytics) and stakeholder engagement needed to support development of new measure concepts and design of effective quality programs. The director will lead collaborative projects across departments. Sufficient skills and experience to support and supervise collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, support raising funding to support the work, engage and coordinate with broad stakeholder audiences and projects reports, and support early career staff working on projects.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage external relationships focused on quality program design.
- Engage and steward funding and partnership opportunities/relationships with a focus on integrating quality science into NCQA programs.
- Develop substantive, goal-oriented partnerships, provides external communication with communities, research groups and professional associations to co-create and disseminate collaborative research and content development projects.
- Evaluate and track progress toward enterprise goals.
- Lead early discovery research teams conducting environmental scans and literature reviews to identify content for new quality programs (measures and standards).
- Co-create common tools and workflows that can be repurposed for future quality program development.
- Support business development colleagues in securing funding for early discovery projects.
- Leads quality science development such as Support the development of proposals for future research and development, lead the implementation and completion of research grants, measure development contracts and NCQA self-funded projects.
- Lead cross-cutting teams responsible for maintaining and creating new performance measures and measurement-based programs, including advisory panels.
- Supervise project teams; collaborate with data scientists on design and methods. Explore and evaluate alternative data sources to address research needs, knowledgeable and experienced in identifying and designing with electronic health record data or ‘real world data,’ common terminologies, standardization of equity data capture and interoperability.
Requirements:
- Master's degree in relevant field, Doctoral degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience leading research projects or processes in health care delivery settings (provider or health plans).
- 3+ years’ experience leading research funding development and cross-institutional partnerships for program implementation.
- Decision making, critical thinking, indirect management, partnership creation, collaboration stewardship, proven ability to write and communicate orally to a variety of audiences.
Compensation & Benefits:
- For new hires, this position pays in the range of $150K - $180K per year, depending on experience.
- This position is eligible for an annual incentive bonus, payable in accordance with policy.
- Click here for employee benefit information.
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41 CFR 60-1.35(c).
