Business Analyst

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  

Location: Remote, must be based in the United States, preferably in EST time zone

Salary Range: $76,500-$108,650 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.

Work Schedule: 9:00am – 6:00pm EST

Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity

Position End Date: June 30, 2025

The Business Analyst will support the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

 

Working within DC Health, Office of Health Informatics, Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (CPPE) the Business Analyst will collaborate across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring effective communication, requirements gathering, user training, and change management, with a focus on public health data systems projects. Key responsibilities include coordinating efforts to integrate both current and new data from the Health Information Exchange (HIE) provider into the Health IT enterprise system, ensuring data harmonization and quality, as well as assuring that requirements are correctly understood by developers and facilitating alignment throughout the planning and implementation phases. The analyst will also coordinate requirements and ensure the quality and timely delivery of query reports and dashboards while ensuring user training and supporting change management to facilitate successful project adoption.

 

The Business Analyst will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the DC Health, Office of Health Informatics, Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (CPPE). This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.