Economist II

Full Time
Atlanta, GA 30341
$89,888 a year
Posted
Job description
Overview:
Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Enterprise Systems & Solutions LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for an Economist II to support the Research Team of the Epidemiology Brach at the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH). Under the guidance of the Research Team Lead and Senior Economist, this individual will contribute to the assessment of smoking-attributable economic burden and evaluate the budget impact of program and policy interventions to alleviate the health and economic burden of smoking.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.
Responsibilities:
  • Assist in relevant data collection, manage/analyze data and draft manuscripts pertaining to assigned economics research projects.
  • Contribute to projects such as the Economic burden of tobacco use by updating the economic consequences components to the Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Cost estimates; Economic evaluation of Quitline: Impact on cessation-related health care costs and cost-effectiveness of tobacco use prevention programs and policies.
  • Assist in identifying updating appropriate data and analyzing data
  • Conduct literature reviews for the assigned task/projects
  • Take lead in collecting, managing, and analyzing secondary data for assigned projects
  • Assist in interpretation of study findings, and preparing documents for dissemination, such as manuscripts for publication in the peer-reviewed literature.
  • Assist in conceptualization and development of economic research and evaluation projects
  • Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree or PhD (preferred) in economics or applied economics from and accredited college or university, that includes at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics.
  • At least five years of work experience after master’s degree or at least tow years of work experience in Public Health after completing PhD degree.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Knowledge and experience with health economic research methods and statistical techniques used in economic evaluation and policy analysis of public health prevention activities (such as two-part models, difference-in-difference analysis, interrupted time series analysis, trend analysis) using national surveys such as Medial Expenditures Panel Survey and using large administrative claims data.
  • Ability to design and manage complex economic assessment projects, including protocol development, development of research design, identifying appropriate data sources, and data analysis.
  • Experience and ability to manage and analyze data independently within minimum intervention from team lead or senior economist.
  • Knowledge and experience with application of budget impact and cost-effectiveness methods to assess the tobacco use prevention programs and policies.
  • Advanced knowledge and skill in statistical/econometric modelling using SAS/Stata
  • Skills in oral and written communications
Final salary determination based on skill-set, qualifications, and approved funding.

Many of our jobs come with great benefits – Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location, and may include the following:

Paid Time Off
PTO - 5.67 hour accrued per pay period / 136 hours annually
Paid Holidays - 11
More Generous Sick Pay – CA residents recieve 24 additional hours
Health & Wellness
Medical
Dental
Vision
Prescription
Employee Assistance Program
Short- & Long-Term Disability
Life and AD&D Insurance
Spending Account
Flexible Spending Account
Health Savings Account
Health Reimbursement Account
Dependent Care Spending Account
Commuter Benefits
Retirement
401k / 401a
Voluntary Benefits
Hospital Indemnity
Critical Illness
Accident Insurance
Pet Insurance
Legal Insurance
ID Theft Protection
Teleworking Permitted?: true Teleworking Details: Hybrid - Staff have been approved to telework however are required to be located in Atlanta, GA. Estimated Salary/Wage: USD $89,887.69/Yr. Up to USD $123,594.56/Yr.

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