Job Opportunity - Senior Analyst, Primary Health Care - First Nations Health Authority

Position Summary

The Senior Analyst, Primary Care leads and provides analytic support to the Primary Care team within the First Nation Health Benefits and Services Department.  The Senior Analyst, reporting to the Director of Analytics and Financial Management, is responsible for collaborating with data leads, developing, designing and implementing analytical products and creating information reports for First Nations participating in the First Nations-Led Primary Health Care Initiative (FNPCI) as well as for FNHAs virtual primary health care services.

As a health and wellness organization, the First Nations Health Authority has aligned with the Provincial Public Health Order released on October 14, 2021. We have a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all employees at First Nations Health Authority. This policy requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If selected for employment, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination by providing a copy of your BC Vaccination Card Passport with the QR code.

Responsibilities

This position:

1. Collaborates directly with FNPCI First Nations leadership, regional primary care project managers and managers of primary care, and community data specialists with an aim to build capacity in the area of data analysis and best practices;
2. Collaborates directly with the Manager of Virtual Health and Wellness Services and the Medical Affairs and Wellness Office (MAWO) with an aim to build capacity in the area of data analysis and best practices;
3. Works with community partners (internal and external) for data identification, analysis and reporting to establish sound data reports in alignment with community direction;
4. Develops, plans, monitors, and leads the design and implementation of analytical models to support community decisions, with a focus on building custom knowledge products that support ongoing First Nations decision making regarding primary care services;
5. Extracts and presents complex datasets and analytical reports to community, management, and program experts;
6. Facilitates the application of knowledge products within the context of planning and quality improvement for First Nations Primary Care Centers and FNHAs virtual services;
7. Develops, plans, monitors, and leads the designs and implementation of analytical models using regression, classification and other algorithms to support quantitative program analysis, health measurement and service delivery;
8. Writes scripts using SQL, R, Python, and other tools to automate data cleansing and analysis from diverse data sources, including SQL data warehouse, text data files, and web data;

A Full Job Description is Available Upon Request

Qualifications

Education

• Master’s Degree in economics, statistics or other health related discipline with minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in developing, designing, and implementing analytical data products.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes

Knowledge and Abilities

• Ability to conceptualize larger scale knowledge development initiatives with a specialization in utilization focused approaches;
• Knowledge of primary care health services;
• Hands-on experience with analytical models, methods and techniques, such as regression and time series analysis;
• Experience with business intelligence, data warehouse technologies, with strong SQL skills;
• Knowledge of the BC health care system and experience with BC health administrative data (MSP, PharmaNet, DAD) is an asset;
• Strong working knowledge of data stewardship best practices, including OCAP® and FPIC.

Competencies

• Awareness - Thorough knowledge of the current First Nations health governance landscape in BC.
• Decision making - Uses sound judgment to make good decisions based on information gathered and analyzed. Considers all pertinent facts and alternatives before deciding on the most appropriate action. Commits to decision.
• Problem solving - Analyzes problem by gathering and organizing all relevant information. Identifies cause and effect relationships. Comes up with appropriate solutions with minimal supervision.
• Teamwork/collaboration – Strong interpersonal skills. Interacts with people effectively. Able and willing to share and receive information. Collaborates within the group and across groups. Supports group decisions. Puts group goals ahead of own goals.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changing work environments, work priorities and organizational needs. Able to effectively deal with change and diverse people.
• Planning/Organizing – Proactively plans and organizes tasks and work responsibilities to achieve objectives. Sets priorities and schedules activities. Allocates and uses resources properly.
• Work standards - Sets and maintains high professional and performance standards. Pays close attention to detail, accuracy, quality and ensures follow through.

Closing Statement

Diversity

The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals with Indigenous ancestry (First Nations, Inuit, Métis).

What You Can Expect From Us

Joining our family means joining an organization that supports personal growth, in-house training, a paid volunteer day and a unique full-day orientation program.

Leading with culture, all FNHA employees complete San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training. We support our family to be leaders in wellness and all staff members develop a yearly wellness plan as part of their performance partnership and goal-setting.

Closing

Please note that only those applicants shortlisted will be contacted. If you do not hear from us about this position, please accept our sincere appreciation for your interest in FNHA!  

For more information about us, please visit: www.fnha.ca/about/work-with-us

If you have any inquiries or issues please contact FNHA Recruitment at careers@fnha.ca or 1-844-699-3186.