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July 15, 2007
Project Manager: BearingPoint
Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA
BearingPoint is one of the world’s leading management and technology consulting companies. From strategy through execution, we work with clients to create innovative, yet practical, management and technology solutions that deliver sustainable results. We provide strategic consulting, technology solutions, applications services and managed services to Global 2000 companies, medium-sized businesses, and government organizations in 60 countries. For nearly 100 years, BearingPoint professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done.
If you’re willing to listen to and collaborate with clients, have a driving passion for innovative solutions and can deliver practical, sustainable results, we’re interested in you. In return, we offer you the opportunity to learn about and apply leading-edge management principles and state-of-the-art technology to the most pressing problems of industry and government, gain a depth and breadth of experience that can grow your career as we grow our business and share in the rewards of success through a competitive, comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
Description: BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE-BE) is one of the world’s largest Management and Technology Consulting companies dedicated to aligning business and systems to empower Global 2000 companies and government organizations. The BearingPoint Healthcare Team is currently searching for a Project Manager.
The Project Management Consultant will work full time at client-sites to assist BearingPoint clients in creating, maintaining and providing status reports for project plans and for their large-scale and complex transformation initiatives. They will assist the Program Manager with implementation and integration within master project schedule including status reporting. The Project Management Consultant will communicate the status of each project with clients and with other Project and Program Managers on a regular basis. The Project Management Consultant will travel to multiple learning centers to work with client subject matter experts to define project scope, task, the durations and deliverables for impending relocations. The Consultant will monitor the timely completion of planned project tasks with appropriate departments and communicate delays that occur. The Consultant will recommend alternatives to internal and external management to get projects back on track.
The Consultant will professionally and gracefully manage client relationships with military and civilian leaders and their staffs as well as support clients to achieve their business transformation initiatives by proactively identifying and addressing risks and issues. The Consultant will prepare and present professional, high-quality, and timely deliverables and status reports.
- Understanding of Scope Definition processes and work breakdown structures
- Understanding of process mapping; process structures and components
- Serve as liaison between client users, client technical team and BE support staff for Project /Program /Portfolio Management tools
Qualifications
Position-specific Requirements
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Project
- Minimum 3 yrs working in Project Management (must have)
- General Project Management Skills
- Must be able to travel locally
- 3 years of experience related to systems integration, business transformation and/or project management
- Professional, proactive self-starter who is skilled both at formulating a strategic view for achieving long-range objectives and also formulating and executing tactical plans to meet day-to-day needs
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively in environment of quick turnaround times and rapidly changing requirements
Position-specific Desired Skills
- Strong leadership abilities, as well as strong interpersonal skills
- Project Manager Professional (PMP) Certified (plus)
- Experience with Microsoft Project Web Access (plus)
- 3 years of prior internal or external consulting experience
- Experience integrating multiple Project Management Plans Logistics
- Travel requirement - minimal
- PhD, PharmD, or M.D
BearingPoint is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or any other basis covered by law. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications and business need.
To apply for this position, please visit us online
Statistical Analyst /Programmer: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine invites statistical analysts/programmers with training and experience in statistics and/or health economics to apply for an immediate position in the Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM). DGIM is a multidisciplinary group of health services researchers with training in economics, statistics, medicine, psychology, and sociology supporting the research and educational missions of the University of Pennsylvania. The position requires the ability to function as a member of a multidisciplinary research team.
Analyst duties include managing administrative and survey data, statistical programming in SAS or STATA, learning and applying new statistical techniques for existing projects or proposals, performing econometrics and biostatistical analyses, and supporting the writing of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals. Position contingent upon funding.
Qualification: Candidates must have at least a master’s degree in statistics or economics or a related field or three or more years experience in this type of position. Significant work-related experience with STATA and/or SAS required. Candidates should have some knowledge of and experience conducting health outcomes or health economics research.
To apply for this position, please submit a CV and cover letter online at the University of Pennsylvania’s Human Resources website or https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/ and search reference number 070321813.
A leader in medicine for more than 230 years, The University of Pennsylvania opened its School of Medicine, the nation’s first, in 1765. Since its founding days, Penn has expanded medical frontiers by creating some of the nation’s earliest programs in areas ranging from Dermatology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology and Radiology. With the only Delaware Valley program to perform transplantation of five major organs, we are committed to scientific discovery and patient care.
Penn offers an excellent benefits package details available at http://www.hr.upenn.edu/
The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer
July 2007: Analyst , Programmer
Medical Economics Consultant
Location: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Requisition #: 17692
Travel: 0 - 10%
FLSA Status: Exempt
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Supervisory: No
Job Responsibilities: We are seeking a dynamic, highly motivated Financial Professional to join our National Medical Cost Management Team. This individual will participate in the identification, quantification, and forecasting of immediate and long-term medical cost impacts related to National Contracting & Strategy changes. The Candidate will assist in the development of financial analysis following initiatives from design stage and forecasting, through actual program outcomes. Candidate will be expected to provide insightful financial input as well as design creative solutions in collaboration with program teams across a large matrixed organization.
Skill or Experience Requirements: Candidate must have strong financial analysis skills, oral/written communication capabilities as well as good people management skills. Individual must be able to design and present their analysis to various levels of management, and distilling large amounts of data into concise actionable information. Candidate must be capable of developing collaborative relationships at all levels across the organization in order to drive multiple initiatives to completion simultaneously and in a highly organized and thoughtful manner. Minimum 3 - 5 years of financial analysis experience in managed care or health care. Excellent PC skills in Excel and MS Access. A degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics or Healthcare Administration preferred.
Additional Job Information: This position combines aspects of detailed financial analysis, extraction of large amounts of data using various tools (i.e. crystal, Access, MCM, data warehouse, Hummingbird/SQL) and data manipulation. The position operates in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment that is frequently involved with ad-hoc analysis and unique investigations.
To submit a posting, candidates should go to http://www.aetna.com/working. The path is Careers, Search Jobs, click on the requisition number (#17692).
Job Description available online
Please note that benefit eligibility may vary by position.
World Bank Consultancy: Co-editor for 'Labor Market Methodology Toolkit'
Overview: In many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, one fundamental health system weakness is the overall shortage, imbalance and low productivity of human resources for health (HRH), which form the foundation of health services delivery. At a time when the international community and SSA countries scale up interventions to deal with the epidemics of tuberculosis (STOP-TB Africa strategy), malaria (World Bank Malaria Booster program, Roll Back Malaria), and HIV-AIDS (various initiatives), it is crucial the workforce crisis and lack of related baseline information and labor market data are adequately addressed.
Despite increased government commitment to addressing the crisis, a major problem is a chronic shortage at all levels (national and international) of skills to appropriately research, diagnose, monitor, and evaluate the Africa health workforce crisis from its unique labor market perspective. The majority of Africa health workforce research and strategies have focused on single issue solutions, especially on pre-service production and on wages with a lack of attention to comprehensive labor market analysis. Furthermore, there is a general lack of printed or web-based resources to assist in designing and using labor market research and analysis methodologies to address the Africa health workforce crisis. Currently for many methodologies there are no adequate resources and for other issues the resources are scattered and difficult to find and use. Finally, there is little understanding of the linkages between analytical baseline information and policy and program development.
As part of the World Bank’s Africa Program on Human Resources for Health (funded by the government of Norway and the Gates Foundation), the Bank, in collaboration with the WHO, plans to develop a comprehensive, practical, easy-to-use, definitive reference for health labor market research and analysis methodologies to be used in the diagnosis and mitigation of health worker shortages in Africa. The ‘Africa Labor Market HRH Toolkit’ is expected to be of use to governments and partner organizations and institutions working on health workforce policy, management, information systems, statistics and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
The Bank is seeking an experienced health labor market economist to complement and work closely with the Bank’s HRH team, and coordinate and guide content development and act as co-editor of the planned toolkit together with program manager Agnes Soucat.
Scope of Work: The co-editor will work closely with the Bank’s Africa HRH team and WHO to coordinate and direct efforts to develop the HRH toolkit. He or she will work closely with Dr. Agnes Soucat (lead health economist) to develop a content outline from a labor market perspective, author key chapters, and maintain content and editorial oversight over chapters written by others. Upon completion, the consultant will contribute towards dissemination efforts of the toolkit.
Although the content design of the toolkit is still being finalized, early consultation between the Bank’s Africa HRH team and the WHO resulted in the following provisional structure for the toolkit: The toolkit will consist of 2 parts. Part 1 is intended to ‘set the stage’ for the overall paper. It will consist of 4 chapters, namely chapters on 1.1) discussion of the main HRH/Labor Market issues confronting countries,1.2) the main policy questions that require answers, 1.3) an overview of the health labor market framework, 1.4) a chapter of the links between policy and analytical tools. Part 2 will focus specifically on the analytical and technical aspects required, such as specific methodologies and mechanisms with which to conduct analysis, and collect information and data required for HRH program and policy development.
Selection Criteria: Ideally the consultant should hold an advanced degree in economics and have significant experience in labor markets. The candidate should have substantial experience in preparing high quality research papers, and recognized credentials as a labor market economist. Country of residence is not a concern.
Time: The Consultant is expected to commit up to 20% of his or her time towards developing the Labor Market toolkit, for a period of 3 to 6 months.
Remuneration: Remuneration will be consistent with the consultant’s experience and the Bank’s payment guidelines.
More information:Anyone who is interested should contact Dr. Kate Tulenko (ktulenko@worldbank.org, 202-473-1066) and Mr. Chris Herbst (cherbst@worldbank.org).