Senior Analytics Consultant at UW Health Northern Illinois – Rockford, Illinois

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Analytics Consultant Senior is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of analytics solutions to clients across UW Health through a variety of analytic methods, tools, visualizations, and modeling techniques. This includes consulting with stakeholders to assess analytics needs, facilitating discussions, developing analytic solutions, and driving organizational change. Initiatives will be of significant complexity and risk. The Analytics Consultant Senior develops trusted advisor relationships with a variety of colleagues and stakeholders and coordinates analytic activities across the enterprise.

The Analytics Consultant Senior will support one or more areas including:

• Financial modeling, analysis, business planning and development, and revenue cycle performance measurement.
• Clinical workflow and electronic health record reporting and analyses, quality measurement, benchmarking and goal setting, and performance measurement analyses.
• Development of business intelligence, dashboards, visualizations, and data exploration tools such as Qlik dashboards.
• Advanced analytics including data science, predictive analytics, natural language processing, applied statistics, machine learning, deep learning, and other advanced techniques.

The Analytics Consultant Senior plays a leadership role within Enterprise Analytics, leads improvement teams to enhance performance of the department, and serves as a mentor to other Analytics Consultants. The Analytics Consultant Senior works closely with employees and leaders across UW Health and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

Minimum:

Associate’s Degree in Healthcare, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Data Science, or related field (Two years relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of educational requirement)

Preferred:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Healthcare, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Data Science, or related field

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION:

Minimum:

None

Preferred:

Epic certifications in any subject area

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum:

• Demonstrated success creating trusted-advisor relationships
• Demonstrated success leveraging complex and disparate data sources to generate actionable information
• Demonstrated success creating complex analytic solutions such as reports, dashboards, and business plans
• Demonstrated success identifying needs and requirements and ability to align and connect systems and solutions • Demonstrated success using quantitative and qualitative methods to identify opportunity • Demonstrated success teaching and mentoring

Preferred:

• Five (5) years of relevant data analysis or analytics experience in healthcare (provider or payor)
• Three (3) years of experience using Epic Chronicles, Epic Registries, Epic Clarity and/or Epic Caboodle Data Warehouse
• Project management experience, including agile methods
• Healthcare subject matter expertise in a health system, academic medical center or health payer organization

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:

Information Services Core Competencies:

Developing intermediate competency in the following areas:

• Leading highly empowered self-directed teams
• Leading without direct authority

Intermediate competency at least three (3) of the following areas of leadership: leading with integrity, maintaining strategic orientation, business & financial acumen, championing innovation, managing execution, leading & developing people

Intermediate competency in the following areas:

• Agile methodologies
• Communication
• Critical thinking
• Lean management
• Mentoring and teaching
• Technical leadership

Position Specific Competencies:

Emerging competency in business relationship management

Advanced competency in at least two (2) and intermediate competency in at least five additional data and analytic competencies such as:

• Analysis and critical thinking skills
• Analytics education/learning
• Analytic methods and tools
• Business intelligence
• Data management
• Data architecture
• Data governance
• Data querying
• Metadata
• Subject matter expertise in domains such as:
  • Cost accounting
  • Financial modeling/analysis
  • Quality measurement
  • Health outcomes
  • Social determinants of health
  • Hospital or ambulatory operations
  • Population health management
  • Patient satisfaction
  • Strategic planning
  • Labor and productivity analytics
  • Revenue cycle management
  • Survey design/development

Other Required Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:

Delivering Analytics Solutions

• Multiple successful large analytics initiatives, with significant role in development and implementation.
• Consistent demonstrated success in data-driven change management - from data story to implementing change.
• Demonstrates professional maturity surrounding data access, data security, data sensitivity, and data confidentiality

ALL DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS MUST BE PERFORMED CONSISTENT WITH THE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: