Job description
- Sydney CBD - Hybrid flexibility
- 12-month contract
- $98,336 - $110,937 + 15.4 % Super
The Hospital Costing Section is responsible for the development and maintenance of costing standards for hospitals and undertakes evaluation of application of the standards.
The Role:
The APS6 Technical Analyst’s role is to support the Technical Manager in delivering advice, developing cost models, and preparing analytical papers for working groups. This may include refinement, assessment, and implementation of cost models to support the projects undertaken across hospital and aged care costing.
The Technical Analyst’s key responsibilities are to:
- Implement cost models, updating documentation, maintaining code and other data resources in partnership with the EL1 Technical Manager.
- Understanding and analysing data collected from aged care and hospital services to design costing models and answer complex costing questions.
- Providing specialist advice to various working groups, managing relationships, and working with stakeholders on technical issues.
- Department of Health and Aged Care – Applicant Kit 3
- Preparing analytical working papers and technical documentation to communicate technical issues to key stakeholders.
- Supporting the Hospital Costing (NHCDC and Costing Project) and Aged Care Costing Sections in providing quantitative evidence relating to ongoing projects.
- Supporting the Technical Manager, Director, and Executive Director in explaining model outcomes and other technical issues to external stakeholders.
Professional experience
- Technical and analytical skills and experience in mathematical or statistical analysis and model refinement and evaluation.
- Leveraging research, grey literature and stakeholder consultation to identify and refine models.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the data analysis life cycle.
- Qualifications in mathematics, statistics, econometrics, or design of data/costing models will be highly regarded
Leadership and accountability
- Working to tight deadlines and responding quickly and flexibly to changing priorities with determination, confidence and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to support projects in an uncertain environment.
- Providing expertise and technical knowledge in specialist areas across a range of programs.
Stakeholder management
- Writing and communicating clearly to a high standard, in particular, the ability to write clearly and concisely about complex subject matters, including to general audiences on technical subjects.
- Build and sustain effective collaborative relationships within multi-disciplinary teams to support the ongoing projects.
Independent decision-making
- Showing initiative and demonstrating a resourcefulness to work both independently and collaboratively within a high-pressure environment, supporting a team with high workloads.
- Capacity to conduct sound analyses in an environment with policy and stakeholder constraints. Ability to adopt a pragmatic approach to analysis and deliver results.
- Work with independence, subject to limited direction against established priorities, practices and methodologies to deliver quality outcomes
- The ability to evaluate the effectiveness of risk management and risk assessment activities.
Highly Desirable
- Experience in mathematical or statistical analysis, cost and statistical model development, experience using SAS, SQL, VBA languages or Python and similar data science libraries is desirable.
- Demonstrated familiarity with public health/hospital/aged care data, specifically related to costing and financial data will be advantageous.
To Apply:
To be eligible it is essential that applicants hold Australian Citizenship and have the ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Federal Police criminal history check.
If you are interested in this role, please do APPLY NOW with your resume and a statement of claims framed around the key duties and key capabilities in MS Word format. Alternatively, call Karen on 02 9200 3677 for more information.
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