Program Research Specialist 1 - 15390, 15391

Minimum Qualifications Permanent transfer candidates : Current Department of Health

DOH) employee with permanent or contingent-permanent

status as a Program Research Specialist 1 (G18) or, NYS Employee with one year of competitive service in a title eligible for transfer under sections 52.

6 and 70.1 of the Civil Service Law.

Public Candidates : Active list candidate on the New York State

Department of Civil Service's Professional Career Opportunities

PCO) Selects eligible list with a score of 100 OR qualified 55B / C

candidate in possession of a Bachelor's or higher degree.""

NY HELPS :

Program Research Specialist Tr 1- A bachelor's degree or higher including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, or data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics.

Program Research Specialist Tr 2- A bachelor's degree or higher including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, or data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics, and one year of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (.

data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data

Program Research Specialist 1- A bachelor's degree including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics and two years of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (.

data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data directed toward review, analysis, and presentation related to program operations.

MQ Substitution- A master's degree or higher including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics may substitute for one year of experience.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Technical degree
• 3-5 yrs product / project management experience
• Excellent communication skills, written / verbal
• 1-3 yrs experience leading direct reports
• 3-5yrs experience working with data as a product
• 3-5 yrs experience leading cross functional teams
• SQL, Database experience preferred
• 1-3 yrs experience managing vendors

Duties Description The candidate in this title will be part an agile team focused on proactively engaging Medicaid Program SMEs to elicit and document institutional knowledge on data product needs and how product management is influenced by policy, and regulatory processes that span the Medicaid enterprise.

The successful candidate in this role will be responsible for supporting the Product Management Team and will play a key role in BPPM’s ability to consistently deliver successful and meaningful data products by overseeing the product lifecycle management activities and the establishment of best-in-practice product management practices and procedures.

The candidate will contribute to the development of business requirements, setting product strategies and roadmaps, product catalog development, process development and enforcement, vendor engagement and management and more.

The Product Managers will work under the team lead to own all document standardization and creation efforts and will directly interface with SME’s across BPPM and will engage with other DDSA bureaus as well as external SMEs when appropriate to ensure the transformation of institutional knowledge into accurate, comprehensive product management activities that will be used to deliver and support the bureau’s mission.

The Product Managers will also be responsible for ensuring documented processes are up to date and ad hoc requests of BPPM leadership as needed.

It is expected that the successful candidates include a combination of both Department and Contractor staff.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.