Performance Advisor

**Performance Advisor**

**Data and Analytics Division**

**Full-time Permanent (Hybrid: 2 days/week in office, 3 days/week WFH)**

**Target Hiring Range: $90,305 - $101,593**

**Background**:
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA)’s 2023-2027 Strategic Plan includes a bold new vision for the OHA as an organization that will “improve the availability and effective use of data and analytics to help support better performance”. To that end, OHA now hosts an online platform and suite of data analytics tools for our hospital members and other clients. Going forward, we will continue to strengthen our foundation for achieving this vision, through building additional tools to enable impactful, client-facing analytics solutions.

Integrated Decision Support (IDS) is a leading collaborative solution for sharing and linking health partner data for planning, performance monitoring, analytics, quality improvement, outcome evaluation, and population health management. As part of the OHA Data & Analytics Portfolio, IDS provides timely, integrated patient level data across the continuum of care to support health sector initiatives. Currently, IDS links patient data for more than 100 health service providers across several regions. It supports 900 plus users as they gather insights derived from the data representing over 149 million encounters from more than 9 million unique patients.

As a client-facing representative of IDS, the Performance Advisor supports and advances the IDS Platform as a trusted expert with advanced knowledge of complex health datasets and the Ontario health system.

**The Position**:
Reporting to the Manager, IDS, the Performance Advisor supports the integration of multi sector healthcare information into the IDS Platform and collaborates on local, regional and provincial projects, such as Ontario Health Teams, Bundled Care, and the enhancement of the longitudinal patient journey, as well as OHA population health initiatives and insights that provide value-added analysis for the system. Your responsibilities will include:
**Innovation and Solution Development**:

- Lead agile workflow for integration of new data sources or the development of new IDS solutions from scope development, documentation, feasibility analysis, project management, data testing and communication
- Design standardized reports of complex indicators that will inform evidence-based decision making to improve patient quality improvements and hospital funding opportunities
- Collaborate with team in mid to long range operational planning to advocate, prioritize, develop vision and solutions to inform annual work plan and future product releases

**Analytics, Knowledge Creation and Translation**:

- Utilize visualization and design theory and expertise to communicate information clearly and efficiently to make complex data/issues more accessible, understandable and actionable
- Interpret, recommend and present new meaningful information for clients and stakeholders gained from disparate data sources to support and influence key strategic and operational decisions
- Assess the dimensions of data quality in IDS datasets, advocate internally and externally for improvements where issues are found, and provide recommendations for achieving better data quality
- Provide content expertise to Ontario Health Teams (OHT), Bundled Care initiatives, and Population Health Management activities
- Conduct literature review to adopt best practices from international healthcare analytical methodologies and tools
- Participate in regional analytical working groups

**Training, Education and User Support**:

- Cultivate collaborative relationships and represent IDS at various forums and regional or provincial working groups
- Host and train IDS health service providers at partner organizations via on-line, classroom, and webinars, including orientation to IDS portal, cubes and report models as well as instruction in specific IDS software tools
- Foster engagement with IDS participants with Analyst Forum
- Promote awareness regarding IDS software tools, data sources, emerging initiatives and Ministry requirements and methodologies, including education with data interpretation
- IDS Portal analytics software: Tableau Server, Tableau Explorer
- Office Tools: e.g. Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Project
- Statistical Tools: e.g. R, SAS, SPSS, Python
- Report Writing/Data Visualization Tools: e.g. Tableau, GIS, Visio, Microsoft SSRS
- Programming Language: SQL, VBA, SAS

You are self motivated and actively seek out opportunities and challenges for learning, character building and growth; innovate to create new knowledge, solve problems, and employ system level thinking; and the ability to prioritize and advance multiple projects simultaneously.

Advanced education and experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis, project management and excellent teaching/facilitation skills are needed to advise clients and create insights and solut