*** This position is contingent upon a contract award. ***

Location: Remote (U.S.-based)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Clearance: Ability to obtain CMS access (public trust)

Position Overview

SoftDev Incorporated is seeking a Research Analyst to support the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) Analysis project for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This role supports the design, execution, and evaluation of statistical analyses used to measure quality and performance across Medicare Advantage (MA) and related contracts. The Research Analyst will play a key role in ensuring analytic rigor, data completeness, and methodological soundness across project tasks, working closely with statisticians, project leadership, and CMS stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and support the development and implementation of statistical analyses associated with MHOS Analysis project tasks.
• Coordinate with other Research Analysts, statisticians, project management, and technical staff to organize workflow and ensure consistent methodologies aligned with the SOW.
• Manage and assess large, complex datasets from multiple sources, ensuring data completeness, accuracy, and readiness for analysis.
• Support analysis of MHOS, HOS, HEDIS®, and related quality datasets to evaluate beneficiary outcomes and contract-level performance.
• Conduct background research and exploratory analyses to assess potential additions or refinements to existing measure sets.
• Interpret analytic findings and develop alternative analytic strategies to support measurement of quality and performance among MA and other CMS contracts.
• Contribute to technical documentation, analytic specifications, reports, and written summaries for CMS review and approval.
• Support recurring analytic production cycles, ad hoc analytic requests, and CMS-driven methodological updates.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, economics, public health, health services research, business analytics, or a related quantitative field (graduate degree preferred).
• Experience supporting statistical or research analysis in healthcare, public health, or federal programs.
• Familiarity with HOS and HEDIS® data and their use in quality measurement and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated experience working with large datasets from multiple sources and assessing data completeness and integrity.
• Strong technical, analytical, computer, organizational, writing, and communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex analytic findings and clearly communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting CMS, Medicare Advantage, or other federal health quality measurement programs.
• Familiarity with survey-based analysis, patient-reported outcomes, and longitudinal data.
• Experience working in a CMS-style environment with formal review, approval, QA, and documentation requirements.
• Proficiency with statistical or analytic tools such as SAS, R, SQL, Stata, or similar.

Why Join SoftDev

SoftDev is a Woman-Owned Small Business with more than 25 years of experience supporting CMS and HHS agencies. Our team is mission-driven, collaborative, and committed to delivering high-quality analytics that improve health outcomes and inform national policy. Joining SoftDev means contributing to impactful federal programs like MHOS while working in a supportive, flexible, and values-driven environment.