Specialist, Data Analytics

**FNHA Overview**:
The First Nations Health Authority is a diverse and transformational health organization of professional, innovative and dedicated team members and leaders.

The first of its kind in Canada, FNHA works as a health-and-wellness partner with BC First Nations to support self-determination and decision-making to improve health outcomes.

**JOIN OUR HISTORIC JOURNEY**
At FNHA, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to BC’s history. With a unique governing structure and mandate, our fluid work environment means you can play an active role in real change.
Our talented teams value respect and foster lateral kindness in their working relationships. Our holistic approach to wellness, based on First Nations teachings, is incorporated into all aspects of work culture. Where else will you get to create a personal wellness plan as part of your performance goals?

**Position Summary**:
The Specialist, Data Analytics leads, plans and implements analytical projects; performs leading-edge data analytics that support efficient and effective service delivery, cost management, and health data reporting to inform decision making. The Specialist, Data Analytics interfaces with management, health professionals and FNHA program resources to develop models, reports and decision support tools; develops and implements procedures and guidelines on data management practices; contributes technical expertise to the Analytics and Financial Management team; and provides mentorship to the data analyst team members in developing, testing and implementing data models and analytical workflows

**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**:

- Leads data analytics projects in designing and performing experiments / hypothesis testing to predictive future results and outcomes relating to prediction of complex issues such as future service demand, budget forecasting, identification of potential fraud, and/or health risks among benefit claimants
- Collaborates with health professionals, program leaders and management to analyze large, complex health and wellness datasets and makes recommendations using data analytics model to inform FNHA strategic papers, proposals and briefing notes
- Collaborates with stakeholders to design and implement departmental performance measures supporting Health Benefits’ strategic priorities
- Prepares and presents complex datasets, analytical reports and cost analyses (both descriptive and predictive) to management, program experts and health and wellness system partners
- 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
- Develops, tests and implements forecasting models to identify and predict future trends in benefit utilization
- Works with internal and external partners for data identification, data analysis, data reporting and to develop workflow and process maps
- Develops, recommends and implements procedures and guidelines on data quality audits and investigations to assess data sources, identifying opportunities and gaps
- Writes scripts using SQL, Datawatch, 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
- Presents data and findings in a variety of means, including but not limited to, charts, graphs, interactive dashboards, and written reports
- A full job description is available upon request_

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Health Science, Health Informatics, Operations Research or a relevant field of study, or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience
- Recognized data science certification or equivalent
- 5-7 years of significant, recent and relevant experience leading complex analytical work, preferable in healthcare, using scripting languages and query languages.
- Experience with predictive modelling (usually acquired over a period of 3+ years’ - experience gained in professional, academic and data science competitions will be considered)
- Hands-on experience with analytical models, methods and techniques, such as regression and time series analysis
- Experience with data visualization and dashboard design software such as Tableau, Power BI.
- Experience with business intelligence, data warehouse technologies, with strong SQL skills
- Demonstrated experienc