Predictive Data Analyst - CalAIM

Salary: $42.59 - $57.40 Per Hour

If hired for this position, you will be required to provide proof that you are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to your start date, or have a valid religious or medical reason qualifying you for an exemption (that may or may not require accommodation)  

SUMMARY

Community Programs is a program office within Health Services Administration, a division under the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS). Community Program’s mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of LA County’s people experiencing homelessness by providing housing and intensive care management services. In addition to other responsibilities this position may participate in the tracking, reporting, quality assurance, and billing efforts for CalAIM, a Medi-Cal waiver program. They will be on a team of analysts who will be providing data collection, analytic, and billing support for CalAIM services tracking and Medi-Cal billing while simultaneously building dashboards and providing regular descriptive analyses.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

1. Reporting and Analysis
   • Assists department stakeholders to define data needs and requirements to ensure data science projects meet business needs at the community, regional, divisional, departmental, or county-wide level
   • Uses statistical programming languages and packages, computer scripting languages, and/or domain-specific languages to digest, manipulate, prepare, augment, evaluate, analyze, summarize, and visualize data
   • Conducts end-to-end predictive data modeling projects that include basic exploratory data analysis, model selection, deployment of models into production environments, and visualization of findings
   • Performs data management and manipulation, including the writing of data queries of departmental databases, data cleaning, and joining of multiple and disparate data sets
   • Extracts and organizes data and applies quality-control techniques to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all data; researches source documents and coordinates with others to resolve missing or conflicting data and other anomalies
   • Ensures regular reporting occurs within specified deadlines
   • Regularly creates deliverables for special projects and assignments, such as ad-hoc department reporting and program analyses
   • Creates documentation for the processes and procedures used for reporting and analyses
2. Tool Development and Maintenance
   • Collaborates with other department subject matter experts to understand, identify, and select available and relevant sources of data for use cases, including internal and external data sources
   • Helps refine program management practices through the creation of new reporting and analytical tools
   • Helps to design, build, and maintain analytical support tools to be used within the Department of Health Services, by housing and service providers, and by other external stakeholders
3. Project Support:
   • Collaborates with data administrators and other IT staff to develop data pipelines and ensure the availability of quality data
   • Convenes and facilitates discussions with stakeholders to design and implement tools and reports
   • Manages the design, development, implementation and maintenance of reports, dashboards and analysis tools
4. Program and Provider Support
   • Works with program staff to understand the implications of analyses and to ensure that findings are actionable and support data-driven program, policy, and operational decision- making.
   • Assists in coordinating with various functional teams to develop and implement products, services, tools, or business process changes resulting from the analysis.
   • Provides regular analyses of the impact of changes in management practices and policies
   • Designs program reports, analyzes performance, and provides resulting analyses to stakeholders

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate has experience working directly with a client-centric relational database and with managing individuals. They have strong technical knowledge and are comfortable doing analyses and building reports out of a SQL database. They are comfortable with a variety of analytical tools and have taken the lead on projects where the best path forward is unclear. They have a customer service mindset.  

Education/Experience

A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a field of applied research such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Psychology, or Public Health that included 12 semester or 18 quarter units of coursework in data science, predictive analytics, quantitative research methods, or statistical analysis -AND- Two (2) years of experience in the application of techniques of machine learning, predictive analytics, data management, and hypothesis-driven data analysis to complex experimental designs leading to actionable findings and recommendations -OR- A Master’s or Doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in a field of applied research such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Psychology, or Public Health.

Option II: Four (4) years of experience with responsibility for planning, designing, conducting, and evaluating research projects involving the application of techniques of machine learning, predictive analytics, data management, and/or hypothesis-driven data analysis to complex experimental designs leading to actionable findings and recommendations.

Certificates/Licenses/Clearances

• Successful clearing through the Live Scan process with the County of Los Angeles.
• In accordance with “Ban the Box” legislation HFH adheres to a fair chance process.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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Handling                                  Not Applicable

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See                                          Constantly

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Not Applicable          Not required for essential functions

Occasionally             (0 - 2 hrs/day)

Frequently                 (2 - 5 hrs/day)

Constantly                 (5 hrs/day)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Currently Remote Work and Home Office Setting with a Potential Transition to a General Office Setting, Indoors Temperature Controlled

Heluna Health is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that encourages minorities, women, veterans, and disabled to apply.