Data Acquisition Manager (Healthcare)

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As a Data Acquistion Manager for Empower AI, Inc. you will be responsible for overseeing technical and support functions of data collection from multiple Medicare systems and other data related tasks. The Data Acquisitions Manager is in direct communication with the Program Director and provides technical assistance to the CMS CERT staff and CERT SC staff, as necessary.

Highlights of Responsibilities:

• • • Ensures the delivery and management of data from multiple Medicare systems and safeguards availability to the nurse reviewers by performing quality checks and ensuring compliance with scheduled deadlines.
    • Directs the Data Management Team towards a goal of building and maintaining a strong, positive partner relationship with Empower AI business units.
    • Understands business requirements and ensures the development of appropriate technical solutions.
    • Identifies appropriate resources and staff for projects. Organizes project team(s) members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives. Acts as the point of contact to client's project management.
    • Manages the implementation of the annual statistical sampling strategy and maintenance of sampling methodology software programs.
    • Defines methodologies, tasks, and activities, and clearly describes roles and responsibilities for performing to personnel. Communicates broadly to help ensure overall coordination for cross-functional teams.
    • Establishing clearly articulated project plans and optimize the allocation of time and resources to achieve project objectives.
    • Works in conjunctions with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects, such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule. Determines when additional resources are needed and implements same. Identifies or gathers information regarding practical solutions that may create additional, different, or unique project objectives or results.
    • Ensures the delivery of services to ensure that all Empower AIs business goals are met or exceeded.
    • Assigns work and provides direction about timeliness and completion of project objectives.
    • Addresses performance issues within prescribed guidelines.
    • Serves as a resource for the operation as well as other Empower AI managers to increase process efficiency and/or effectiveness through the application of technology.
    • Ensures the development and compliance with Empower AI policies and procedures.
    • Ensures the department compliance with quality management system and ISO
    • Identify, communicate, and elevate issues when necessary. Develops and implements solutions to issues as appropriate.
    • Assists with development of methodologies for proactive data analysis.
    • Works with various project managers across task orders to meet innovative and ongoing project needs.
    • Uses advanced statistical techniques to identify data patterns and aberrancies in CERT data.
    • Assesses and reports data security issues.

Requirements:

• • • Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in field of study that can be reasonably interpreted to perform tasks related to this position.
    • Seven or more years of experience in the health care data field.
    • Seven or more years of supervisory/managerial experience in the health care data field
    • Experience in managing people on medium to large scale projects.
    • Experience working with application development and maintenance best practices.

Skills and Knowledge Abilities: 

• • • PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification (preferred) or similar designation
    • Strong leadership skills to coordinate, oversee, develop, and lead team members.
    • Experience leading efforts to prepare lifecycle documents, including Use Cases, Requirements System Design Alternatives, System Development Plans, Detailed Design Specifications, and Implementation Plans
    • Strong oral and written communications skills.
    • Strong interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members and clients.
    • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
    • Strong organizational skills to balance and prioritize work.
    • Ability to work independently and in a team or distributed environment.
    • Knowledge, skills, and ability to plan, conduct and supervise work to be completed under assigned tasks.
    • Knowledge, skills, and ability to apply new management practices and innovative methods and procedures for managing tasks.
    • Demonstrated experience with MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Project.
    • Experience with a statistical software suite (R, Python, SAS, SPSS)
    • Ability to deal with ambiguity and change.
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members, support personnel, and end users.
    • Ability to function independently and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
    • Knowledge of databases and Excel including exposure to database architectures.
    • Familiarity with COBOL programming (preferred)
    • Experience with Medicare Fee for Service data (preferred)
    • Understanding of how to apply Medicare policies and practices (preferred).
    • Willingness to travel on occasion as required.

Physical Requirements:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• • • Sitting for long periods

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.  Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.