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MITRE’s Health Promotion, Protection, Preparedness and Partnerships Department (P526), within the Center for Transforming Health (CTH), seeks a Senior Public Health subject matter expert to support strengthening public health and healthcare outcomes by providing evidence-based analysis, strategic guidance, and technical expertise in one or more areas of the Department, Division and/or Center portfolios.

CTH operates the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, commonly known as the Health Federally Funded Research and Development Center (Health FFRDC). Serving the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal organizations with health and human services missions, the Health FFRDC brings objective analysis, technical expertise, and a broad understanding of the health ecosystem to complex national challenges.

Through this role, MITRE helps government sponsors make informed decisions, translate policy into operational programs, and develop and evaluate innovative solutions. CTH connects expertise across MITRE with government, industry, and academia to strengthen health systems and improve health and well-being.

Position Summary

This position will contribute to a portfolio focused on federal health priorities, for agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services whose missions influence health, health outcomes, healthcare delivery, access to care, and research. Portfolio areas of emphasis might include health-related project management, complex health data governance and use, data science that promotes data use, interoperability, standards, and sharing as well as access to healthcare, research design, operational capabilities, and program evaluation, or work that enables access to health information and services. Working with multidisciplinary teams, the individual will help translate complex sponsor challenges into structured analyses, practical recommendations, and implementation approaches. The successful candidate will combine public health project management and domain knowledge, analytical judgment, and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to independently execute substantive tasks and lead defined workstreams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Project and People Management

• Work collaboratively on assigned tasks and workstreams, thinking through scope, schedules, risks, and sponsor communication under the project leader’s direction.
  
• Translate sponsor priorities, policy requirements, research findings, and stakeholder perspectives into actionable strategies and implementation recommendations.
  
• Prepare analytical reports, executive briefings, policy papers, process maps, implementation roadmaps, and other products that support sponsor decisions.
  
• Collaborate with specialists in public health, policy, economics, analytics, systems engineering, technology, and organizational transformation.

Technical Skills, including experience in some of the following key areas:

• Analyze health and human services programs, policies, and operations to identify needs, assess alternatives, and recommend improvements.
  
• Conduct environmental scans, literature and policy reviews, stakeholder interviews, and qualitative and quantitative analyses.
  
• Assess how programs, organizational structures, processes, data, and technology contribute to or constrain mission outcomes.
  
• Support strategic planning, program design, implementation planning, organizational change, and performance improvement.
  
• Develop evaluation approaches, logic models, performance measures, and other tools to assess implementation progress and program results.
  
• Examine challenges that cross organizational boundaries, including opportunities to strengthen coordination among federal agencies, states, tribes, territories, communities, and service providers.
  
• Maintain analytical rigor by documenting evidence, assumptions, methods, and limitations; contribute reusable approaches and lessons learned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically, requires a minimum of five years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a master’s degree with the ability to contribute immediately at this job step; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
  
• Relevant education or equivalent professional preparation in public health, health policy, public policy, health administration, health security, public administration, economics, social sciences, biomedical/health research, or a related discipline.
  
• Experience analyzing, evaluating, implementing, or improving health, public health, or human services programs, policies, or operations.
  
• Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, synthesize evidence, assess alternatives, and develop practical recommendations.
  
• Experience producing clear analytical reports, briefings, or implementation products for organizational decision makers.
  
• Ability to independently manage assigned tasks, contribute to multidisciplinary teams, and coordinate work involving multiple stakeholders.
  
• Strong written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
  
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A relevant master’s (or doctoral degree) in public health, health policy, public administration, management, or analytical discipline, biomedical/health research, or a clinical field.
  
• Experience supporting one or more federal agency programs in the areas of health and health technology
  
• Experience in one or more of the following is desired: health data linkage and governance, use or policies/procedures related to real-world data, research design and program evaluation, or data analysis.
  
• Experience addressing challenges that span multiple federal agencies or levels of government.
  
• Experience engaging state, local, tribal, or territorial organizations, community partners, healthcare providers, or people who use health and human services.
  
• Experience integrating qualitative findings with quantitative evidence to assess program performance and inform decisions.
  
• Proficiency with analytical or visualization tools appropriate to the work.
  
• Experience guiding junior colleagues and reviewing analytical deliverables.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$106,400 - $133,000 - $159,600 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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