Senior Public Health Analytics Consultant

Job Description: • Position Overview*- Lead the business and analytic direction of dashboards, ensuring they are actionable, policy-relevant, and aligned with DPH priorities, best practice standards, and local public health needs.- Lead the content, structure, and use cases for statewide and local public health dashboards, ensuring usability for local public health and relevance for state partners.- Define and document business requirements, KPIs, success criteria, and analytic assumptions for dashboards and reports.- Validate that dashboards meet local and state public health needs, including analytic clarity, usability, and equity considerations.- Serve as a biostatistical subject matter expert for dashboard design, interpretation, and data quality decisions.- Provide analytic guidance on appropriate methods for public health reporting, including rate construction, age adjustment, suppression practices, trend analysis, and interpretation of reliability.- Research, vet, and document datasets to understand limitations, biases, suppression rules, and interpretation risks.- Work with common public health dataset types, including mortality and death records, injury and violence data, chronic disease indicators, syndromic or near–real-time surveillance data, hospitalization and utilization data, and population-based datasets such as PLACES, Census and American Community Survey data, and social determinants of health indicators.- Incorporate social, demographic, and environmental context into analytic outputs, with appropriate documentation of assumptions and limitations.- Ensure dashboards and analytic products reflect the realities of municipal, regional, rural, and capacity-constrained public health settings and align with Foundational Public Health Services.- Serve as the primary point of contact for DPH partners on dashboard-related work.- Facilitate analytic discussions with local public health and program partners, translating complex concepts into clear, decision-ready insights.- Oversee Tableau dashboard development, ensuring analytic integrity, equity-focused design, and clear interpretation.- Contribute to dashboards, metadata, reports, newsletters, and other partner-facing materials with clear written communication. Requirements: • *Required: **- Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Informatics, Data Analytics, or a related field.- Minimum 6 years of experience supporting public health analytics, data strategy, performance reporting, or dashboard development in a consulting, government, or applied public health setting.- Demonstrated experience leading or advising on the design of public health dashboards, analytic products, or reporting frameworks for state and local public health audiences.- Strong working knowledge of public health analytic methods sufficient to guide methodology and interpretation, with examples including rate construction, age adjustment, suppression practices, trend analysis, and equity-focused disaggregation.- Experience translating policy, program, and business questions into analytic requirements, KPIs, and success criteria, and directing analysts or technical teams on appropriate approaches.- Excellent ability to communicate analytic concepts and findings to partners with varying levels of technical expertise, both verbally and in writing.**Preferred:**- Experience supporting initiatives aligned with Foundational Public Health Services, performance standards, or statewide public health modernization efforts.- Experience working with or supporting municipal, regional, rural, or capacity-constrained local public health settings.- Experience overseeing or collaborating on Tableau-based analytics in a public health context.- Familiarity with Massachusetts local public health structures, reporting requirements, and public health data landscape. Benefits: • *Compensation and Benefits**- Expected range is $95,000-$120,000/annually- Comprehensive benefits package, including:- 6+ weeks total leave, including paid vacation, sick time, personal leave, and floating holidays- Health, dental, and vision insurance- Health FSA and dependent care FSA- 401(k) with employer match- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance- One-time technology stipend- Opportunities for professional development and career growth Apply tot his job