Specialist, Data Analytics

**FNHA Overview**:
**About us**
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.

**Title**: Specialist, Data Analytics
**Salary**: $86,778 - $102,091 - $117,405 per year (pay range explained below)
**Contract**: Permanent
**Hours**: 37.5 hours
**Location**: 1166 Alberni St, Vancouver - located on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. (Hybrid working is an option in line with FNHA’s flex work policy).

**About the role**
As Specialist, Data Analytics, you will be spearheading health data analytics projects that will support efficient and effective service delivery, as well as decision-making. You’ll be closely engaging with management, healthcare professionals and FNHA program resources to develop models, reports, and various decision support tools. With your technical acumen, you’ll be developing procedures and guidelines on data management practices, liaising with multiple teams and leadership to define project scopes and solutions, and contributing to the overall expertise of the Analytics and Financial Management team. This role requires collaboration with other pharmacy experts to handle health administrative data related to pharmacy and prescription drugs.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will have:

- Master’s degree in fields such as Analytics, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Health Science, Health Informatics, Operations Research, or a related discipline, accompanied by at least 7 years of combined experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

**Occupational Certification**
- Recognized data science certification or equivalent

**Experience and Competencies**
- Recent, relevant and significant experience in 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 experience in the use of analytical / statistical software such as SQL, R and Python (ability to develop and maintain python modules is an asset)

You may have experience in;
- Experience in working with First Nations is an asset
- Knowledge of Big Data systems and opportunities, challenges and risks as they pertain to healthcare is an asset
- Knowledge of health related programs and services within First Nations communities is an asset
- Knowledge of the BC health care system is an asset

**Please refer to Job Specification section of the Job Description for more details.**

**Working at FNHA**
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits, including:

- Municipal Pension plan with an employer contribution of 9.31% (after 3 months)
- 3 weeks’ vacation, which increases with service to 4 weeks, plus 5 personal days, 1 volunteer day, and 14 public holidays including National Indigenous People’s Day and National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- Access to group health benefits and a Health Care Spending Account through Canada Life on day 1 of employment
- And more

**The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals who identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis.**

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.

The Pay Range is the minimum and maximum annual salary based on full time equivalent hours. Incumbents are typically hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the range based on their knowledge, skills, abilities and experience in relation to the role requirements. The top 10% of the pay range is for the incumbents who are industry experts in the job with the combination of exceptional experience and competencies needed to perform all duties and responsibilities at a superior capability level.

As a health and wellness organization, the FNHA 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 employ