Salary Range: $88,990-$127,923/year. The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan. Salary will be prorated accordingly for part time roles.

Job Summary:

In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of PHSA, safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA. As such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

The Senior Health Economist reports to the Director of the Health System Intelligence Unit in Data Analytics, Reporting and Evaluation (DARE). The Senior Health Economist is responsible for the design, conduct, and completion of health economics and health services research to support business intelligence, policy and/or clinical research, and evidence-based decision making for a designated program area of PHSA. The Senior Health Economist provides leadership and direction to project teams and works with senior scientists, clinicians and divisional leaders to establish and maintain project operations.

Duties/Accountabilities:

• Consistent with PHSA and DARE policy and professional standards of practice, conducts quantitative and/or qualitative health economics and health service research studies in collaboration with health care professionals within the DARE, PHSA and its agencies, the Ministry of Health Services and other external partners.
• Develops, critiques, and executes decision analytic models for economic evaluation of health care initiatives by collecting, linking and analyzing primary data and/or large administrative datasets.  Researches and designs tools, templates and techniques to model outcomes from a clinical, population and budgetary perspective.
• Use mathematical methods in economic research and planning to conduct frequentist, regression and model-based analysis to support health economic evaluation; create briefing notes, business cases and reports to communicate results of analyses
• Prepares final health economics and services research reports for dissemination to collaborating parties. Prepares abstracts, posters and oral presentations for submission to scientific conferences. Disseminates findings by preparing manuscripts for scientific publication and executive reports for internal partners.
  
  

Qualifications:

• A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a PhD in Health Economics, Health Services, Health Policy or related discipline and a minimum of 3-years related experience in a healthcare or academic research environment.
• An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered.
• Advanced knowledge of health economics theory and demonstrated excellence in the application of health economics methods.  
• Expert knowledge of study design, data collection and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to perform advanced data manipulation, analysis and information presentation through the use of database and spreadsheet software.
• Working knowledge of health systems. Ability to adapt to new technology.
• Programming economic models using statistical software such as R, and /or SAS, and /or in Microsoft Excel is required.
• Good knowledge of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and modeling using statistical software such as R, and /or SAS.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.  
• Ability to identify, plan and execute independent work in a collaborative environment.  
• Ability to contribute both as a team member and a team lead.  
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to comprehend complex issues and related data/information and present information in concise and meaningful ways.  
• Demonstrated organization skills to generate work plans to meet project deadlines within timeline, scope and budget.  
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects.