Role Responsibilities

The Health Economics and Funding Unit provides leadership in the application of economics to the development of health strategies, policies and programs to promote economic efficiency and effectiveness of the health system; and to enhance the system's ability to forecast fiscal resource requirements and to assess fiscal sustainability.

The Health Funding team maintains multiple key health economic and financial datasets including Management Information Systems and National Health Expenditures data. The Senior Funding Analyst plays a critical role in leveraging these datasets to create metrics and forecasting to promote economic efficiency and sustainability across health programs including acute care, continuing care, primary care and mental health and addiction.

The Senior Funding Analyst is responsible for:  

• Participating in the development and review of project frameworks and methodological approaches to answering health system funding and costing questions. 
• Tracking, analyzing and assessing emerging trends in health care funding and expenditures, including macro-economic and socio-economic factors, and changes in government, ministry and public health agency business activities. 
• Provide leadership support in the development of national case costing benchmarks and reporting to support senior management decision making.  
• Developing information products.  
• Presenting the results in a manner that is understandable and meaningful to internal and external health system stakeholders and the public. 

The projects are a mix of responding to queries and proactively addressing opportunities as they emerge. Through lessons learned via evaluating previous project work and consultation with fellow experts, and consideration of the broader needs of the ministry regarding health economic data, the Senior Funding Analyst develops recommendations to improve processes related to financial and economic data collection, analysis and use. 

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position. 

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process. 

Creative Problem Solving: Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues. 
Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them. 
Agility: Identifies and manages required changes and the associated risks. 
Drive for Results: Takes and delegates responsibilities for outcomes. 
Build Collaborative Environments: Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict. 

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: 
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf. 

Qualifications

To be considered for this position you must have:  

University graduation in a related field plus 4 years of progressively responsible related experience; or equivalent as described below. 

• Related education includes Economics, Business/Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics, Epidemiology, or a closely related field. Graduate degree preferred.  
• Related experience includes responsible experience with economic analysis and/or data management using computerized applications to independently gather, compile, and analyze data including preparation of narrative or statistical reports.  

Directly related education or experience may be considered on the basis of 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.  

Skills: 

• Experience in practical application of economics/statistics/finance concepts and tools to business and policy concerns. 
• Experience working with large data sets and programming software (SAS, Access, SQL, and/or Oracle). 
• Solid project management experience and understanding. 

Knowledge: 

• Knowledge of availability and uses of financial, administrative and population health reports and databases to conduct complex data retrievals and analyses to meet internal and external requestors' information and knowledge needs. Ability to identify limitations of existing databases. 
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research design and methodology, data collection and analysis techniques.  
• Knowledge of basic statistical methods (e.g. correlation, regression), different types of economic or econometric analysis (e.g. cost benefit analysis, forecasting, margin analysis). 

Abilities: 

• Ability to apply business knowledge when validating data or recommending a solution. 
• Ability to be flexible and work in a busy environment; ability to prioritize workload and identify options implementing contingency plans when there are competing priorities. 
• Ability to work independently with minimal or no supervision, or as part of a team. 

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.  
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards. 

Notes

Candidates are encouraged to submit a resume and cover letter that demonstrates how you meet the educational and experience requirements, along with examples to demonstrate competencies, as noted above.  

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience.  

This is a full-time position working 36.25 hours per week.

The final candidates may be required to undergo pre-employment checks (Reference check/Criminal record and/or academic).  

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.  

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees. 

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx. 
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca. 
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits. 
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive. 
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca. 
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance. 
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement. 
• Leadership and mentorship programs.