Title: Programmer Analyst, Fenway Institute Applications
Reports to: Director, Fenway Health Data Analytics
Classification: Individual Contributor
Location: Hybrid
Job description revision number and date: V.20; 05.01.2024

Organization Summary:
Community Care Cooperative (C3) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Accountable Care Organization (ACO) governed by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Our mission is to leverage the collective strengths of FQHCs to improve the health and wellness of the people we serve. We are a fast-growing organization founded in 2016 with 9 health centers and now serving hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries who receive primary care at health centers and independent practices across Massachusetts. We are an innovative organization developing new partnerships and programs to improve the health of members and communities, and to strengthen our health center partners.

Job Summary:
The Programmer Analyst is a key member of the finance and analytics team at C3 working closely with the Director of Fenway Health Data Analytics, Vice President of Finance and Analytics (C3), Executive Director of The Fenway Institute (TFI), and other members of the C3 and/or Fenway Health team. They will also have close working relationships with key staff within Fenway Health and TFI. The Programmer Analyst provides programming, data management, statistical analyses, and support for various programs, projects and research studies throughout the Health Center and provides support to assigned staff.

Responsibilities:

• Provides programming, data management, and support for various programs, projects and research studies
• Develop software package applications for data entry, report generation and analysis queries
• Interpret and prioritize data requests from funders, research partners, and staff at all levels
• Develop reports with validations that test the integrity of the data captured in the Electronic Medical Record System (EMR) and works collaboratively with identified FCHC personnel to clean the data in the EMR
• Manage, document and train on best practices for research data entry and implements quality checking processes to resolve inconsistencies with data and data collection
• Create standard operating procedures and documentation of processes
• Seek efficiencies in understanding and modifying operating interrelationships between operating systems, database systems and data merging from different sources
• Suggest system modifications as appropriate
• Prepare required data submissions to a variety of governmental and nonprofit funders
• Provide statistical support, analyses, and training for various programs, research studies, and health center projects
  Develop research/program design, documentation, and analytical strategy
• Assist in designing and developing surveys, questionnaires, and data collection tools
• Develop new research proposals independently and in collaboration with research teams
• Design and evaluate strategies to meet reporting and research goals
• Research, design, and develop data collection tools independently and in collaboration with teams
• Develop and review study design protocol and data management systems according to funders’ guidelines and federal HIPAA requirements
• Collaborate with research teams on study design, methodology, and timelines for research projects
• Describe electronic dataset extraction methods for investigators and manuscripts
• Write, review, and revise research manuscripts for publication

Additional responsibilities

• Provide training and supervision to assigned staff
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills:

• Demonstrate flexibility on performing a variety of technical and investigative roles as need for different projects
• Two or more years of SQL programming experience
• Demonstrated experience in relational databases and data warehousing
• Facility in drawing conclusions from messy data sets to support business objectives and presenting distilled findings to leadership
• Ability to take initiative and exercise high degree of initiative, judgement, discretion and decision making to achieve objectives
• Works well with others, understanding different perspectives and finding collaborative ways to the get the job done
• Perform with great integrity and produces accurate work with close attention to detail, especially in the completion of final deliverables to internal and external stakeholders
• Build new capabilities in a new organization; great initiative combined with the knowledge of when to ask for help or guidance
• Experienced with developing models that achieve objectives with minimum required complexity
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50-75% of the time

Desired Other Skills:

• Familiarity with the MassHealth ACO program
• Familiarity with Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Experience with anti-racism activities, and/or lived experience with racism is highly preferred

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in statistics, public health, mathematics or a related field required
• Two years or more in biostatistics

** In compliance with Covid-19 Infection Control practices per Mass.gov recommendations, we require all employees to be vaccinated consistent with applicable law. **