American Institutes for Research

General

• Serve as a bridge between data scientists, economists, and domain experts, translating across disciplines to ensure that analytical approaches are both methodologically rigorous and grounded in real-world development and global health challenges.
• Design and implement quantitative analyses to address global health challenges in low and middle income countries, with a focus on predictive analytics, geospatial analyses, and causal design.
• Apply machine learning and AI approaches, including predictive analytics, to real-world datasets (e.g., on AIR’s malaria early warning system and other geospatial or satellite data) to generate forward-looking insights and support innovative, data-driven solutions in global health and development contexts.
• Develop and implement machine learning and predictive analytics workflows using Python (and, where appropriate, R) to analyze complex development and global health data.
• Integrate and analyze survey, administrative, and remotely sensed (e.g., satellite or geospatial) data to generate novel insights on development and global health challenges.
• Contribute to the design and execution of applied research studies, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches where appropriate.
• Translate complex analytical results into clear, actionable recommendations for policymakers, program implementers, and funders.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including economists, data scientists, and sector specialists, to integrate data-driven approaches into projects.
• Support business development efforts, including drafting technical approaches, shaping analytical strategies for proposals, and contributing to engagement with donors such as the Gates Foundation, World Bank, U.S. Department of State, UNICEF, and other partners.
• Engage with partners and stakeholders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to ensure analyses are grounded in contextual realities and implementation constraints.
• Mentor and supervise junior researchers and data scientists, fostering professional growth and technical excellence.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams and ensure high-quality deliverables aligned with client expectations.

Senior Global Health Development Economist

Data Analyst

• Apply quantitative methods and techniques to manage, analyze, and interpret research data.
• Construct, clean, and document large datasets for both internal use and project-specific needs.
• Create customized, presentation-quality reports based on data analysis results.
• Contribute to the design and methodology of research studies.
• Manage administrative components of projects to ensure smooth execution.
• Assist in the preparation of technical procedures, documentation, and reports.
• Write, compile, and edit assigned sections of proposals and project deliverables.
• Review work products to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency of content.

Medicaid and Prescription Drug Data Analyst

Researcher

• Lead or contribute to the design and execution of rigorous research and evaluation projects.
• Apply appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret data.
• Communicate and disseminate about our work and findings in creative, engaging, and accessible ways.
• Manage small to mid-sized tasks or project components, including planning timelines, tracking deliverables, and liaising with clients while maintaining positive and collaborative relationships.
• Mentor and guide junior staff through regular feedback, training, and modeling of research best practices.
• Engage with stakeholders and partners through meetings, briefings, and field engagement activities.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive work environment that values diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

Quantitative Education Researcher, Learning Supports

• Analyze healthcare-related data, such as claims (e.g., CMS) and national surveys/databases (e.g. MEPS).
• Construct, clean, statistically model, and report findings using SAS and Python or R.
• Implement statistical methods to analyze data.
• Follow programming guidelines and rigorous quality assurance approaches, including the maintenance of accurate documentation for the programs.
• Analyze data, summarize results, and incorporate findings into memos, briefs, and/or reports tailored to client needs.
• Interact professionally with peers, managers, and clients.
• Strictly adhere to timelines and deadlines.
• Apply quantitative methods and techniques to manage, analyze, and interpret research data.
• Construct, clean, and document large datasets for both internal use and project-specific needs.
• Contribute to the design and methodology of research studies.
• Assist in the preparation of technical procedures, documentation, and reports.
• Review work products to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency of content.

Data Analyst II

• Act as a trusted thought partner for supporting the execution of strategic goals and initiatives and measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Lead technical project planning and execution in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Manage and expedite technical deliverables while coordinating amongst competing priorities. Track key timelines, action items, and priorities, providing proactive follow-ups, reminders, and escalation support as needed.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, trackers, dashboards, and status updates to ensure visibility and informed decision-making.
• Frame agendas, prepare briefing materials, and track actionable follow-ups. Partner with cross-functional teams to foster collaboration, alignment, and smooth execution across projects and initiatives.
• Provide operational support across budgeting, expense coordination, procurement, and vendor interactions while ensuring compliance with internal processes and confidentiality standards.
• Duties and responsibilities may change based on business needs.

Project Specialist

• Demonstrating and applying content knowledge and methodological expertise to study design decisions, project activities, and reporting.
• Contributing to or supervising collection and management of data for projects; · Leading or contributing to designs for rigorous experimental, quasi-experimental, and descriptive studies.
• Leading or contributing to quantitative analysis and write-up of research technical reports, briefs and other project deliverables.
• Carrying out task management activities, including supervising junior staff, communicating with senior managers, and communicating with clients as appropriate.
• Engaging in business development activities, including cultivating relationships with existing and potential new clients, capture planning, managing or writing proposals.
• Supporting collaboration among team members, both internal and external to the organization.
• Contributing to dissemination activities, including presentations, journal manuscripts, issue briefs, data dashboards, infographics and other products for a variety of audiences.
• Mentoring staff, share approaches to solving concrete study design and analytic problems, and provide feedback on the work of others.

Mixed Methods Disability Researcher

Principal

• Leads project and task execution and business development, specifically for work conducted for CMS and the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI).
• Directs execution of large complex projects or portfolio of smaller projects; oversees the planning, design, and implementation of project procedures.
• Provides senior subject matter expertise related to specialty care, including quality measures, payment policies, and program and model design.
• Leads proposal efforts including review of proposals for sound practices and techniques, briefings, and client relation/development activities.
• Serves as industry expert for alternative payment models, value-based reimbursement, or Medicare payment policies, especially as they relate to specialty care.
• Effectively coaches and manages others to promote their development; sets developmental goals and measurements for staff.
• Fosters an environment that values a wide range of perspectives, experiences, backgrounds, and individual strengths.

Principal Researcher, Value-Based Specialty Care

• Leads project and task execution and business development, specifically for work conducted for CMS and the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI).
• Directs execution of large complex projects or portfolio of smaller projects; oversees the planning, design, and implementation of project procedures.
• Provides senior subject matter expertise related to prescription drug prescribing, pricing, and rebate programs to delivery teams and/or proposal teams.
• Leads proposal efforts including review of proposals for sound practices and techniques, briefings, and client relation/development activities.
• Serves as industry expert for alternative payment models, value-based reimbursement, or Medicare payment policies, especially as they relate to prescription drug policies and pricing.
• Effectively coaches and manages others to promote their development; sets developmental goals and measurements for staff.
• Fosters an environment that values a wide range of perspectives, experiences, backgrounds, and individual strengths.

Principal Researcher, Prescription Drug Policy

• Lead or contribute to the design and execution of Medicaid‑focused research and evaluation projects, including policy analyses, demonstrations, and program evaluations.
• Apply appropriate quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret Medicaid administrative data, such as claims, encounters, enrollment, eligibility, and provider data.
• Conduct analyses that examine Medicaid utilization, access, quality, cost, and equity outcomes across populations and delivery systems.
• Translate complex analytic findings into clear, actionable insights for state and federal Medicaid stakeholders, including client reports, technical memoranda, and presentations.
• Support proposal development for Medicaid‑related work by writing technical sections, contributing to analytic approaches, and supporting proposal strategy.
• Manage small to mid‑sized project tasks or analytic components, including planning timelines, tracking deliverables, and coordinating with internal teams and external clients.
• Collaborate closely with programmers, data scientists, policy staff, and project leadership to ensure analytic rigor and alignment with policy objectives.
• Mentor and guide junior staff through feedback, training, and modeling best practices in quantitative and Medicaid policy research.
• Engage with Medicaid stakeholders through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities.
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Medicaid Researcher, Healthcare Innovations

• Engage with Marketplace, Medicaid and Medicare stakeholders through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities.
• Interpret policy and regulations.
• Specify, oversee, and interpret descriptive and statistical analyses of large, complex datasets.
• Translate complex analytic findings into clear, actionable insights for state and federal stakeholders, including client reports, technical memoranda, and presentations.
• Design and oversee the development of dashboards and other data visualizations to present quality performance and associated data.
• Apply appropriate quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret administrative data, such as claims, encounters, enrollment, eligibility, and provider data.
• Lead or contribute to the design and execution of research and evaluation projects, including policy analyses, demonstrations, and program evaluations.
• Support proposal development work by writing technical sections, contributing to analytic approaches, and supporting proposal strategy.
• Manage small to mid sized project tasks or analytic components, including planning timelines, tracking deliverables, and coordinating with internal teams and external clients.
• Develop and manage budgets (in collaboration with a Project Manager), and communicate timelines, scope and resources with clients.
• Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of all work products through appropriate QA/QC processes.
• Supervise, mentor and guide junior staff through feedback, training, and modeling best practices in quantitative and qualitative policy research and professional completion of project tasks.
• Work effectively in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment with staff of varied technical skills and expertise.

Medicaid and Medicare Policy Researcher

Director

• Set the strategic direction for a portfolio of federal and state Medicaid policy and data analytics initiatives, spanning analytic design, data infrastructure, performance monitoring, and reporting, and ensure alignment with evolving Medicaid program priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Provide executive oversight across the full analytics lifecycle, guiding multidisciplinary teams on analytic conceptualization, data specification, methodology, validation, and policy-relevant reporting, while ensuring methodological rigor and consistency across projects.
• Serve as a senior strategic advisor to federal and state clients, particularly CMS/CMCS and state Medicaid agencies, shaping analytic approaches, anticipating data and policy risks, and strengthening long-term partnerships.
• Work with AIR’s program area and functional leadership to create a business development strategy for established areas and specific new areas of growth and identify new opportunities, including coordinating pursuit plans and pipelines for opportunities.
• Supervise and mentor task leads, analysts, researchers, TA specialists, and operational staff to build strong, high-performing project teams.
• Represent AIR in stakeholder meetings, technical discussions, and conferences related to Medicaid data, policy, and program analytics.

Managing Director, Medicaid

Research Scientist

• Manage large, complex research and evaluation projects focused on community safety, violence prevention, and related systems-change efforts.
• Anticipate project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure timely, high quality deliverables.
• Ensure compliance with ethical standards, IRB requirements, and data governance policies.
• Lead and contribute to proposals and capture efforts for federal, state, local, foundation, and other client opportunities related to community safety.
• Develop competitive proposal strategies, including conceptual design, methodological plans, staffing, and budgets.
• Identify new business opportunities and cultivate partnerships that advance the organization’s mission.
• Serve as a senior methodological leader, advising teams on rigorous quantitative and/or qualitative approaches.
• Lead the review, analysis, synthesis, and visualization of data using appropriate practices and techniques.
• Ensure data integrity, reproducibility, and strong documentation across all analytic workflows.
• Translate complex research findings—both orally and in writing—into actionable insights tailored to policymakers, practitioners, and community partners.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships with professionalism and awareness of the broader policy and practice landscape.
• Cultivate external relationships with researchers, practitioners, community partners, and other leaders working across the community safety and prevention landscape.
• Manage and mentor staff to build technical capacity in community safety, prevention science, research design, and client service.
• Provide thought partnership and coaching to mid level researchers on research design, analysis, and dissemination.
• Model inclusive leadership practices and foster a collaborative team environment.

Senior Researcher, Community Safety – Violence Prevention

Cloud Engineer

• Design, configure, and administer Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Copilot, and related security/compliance features.
• Administer and harden Entra ID (Azure AD), including conditional access, identity protection, app registrations, and role‑based access control.
• Own Exchange Online configuration: mail flow, transport rules, connectors, policies, hybrid connectivity, and advanced troubleshooting of mail delivery issues.
• Investigate incidents, identify patterns, and develop detection queries and reports leveraging Microsoft 365 Defender, Purview, and Log Analytics.
• Collaborate with security and networking teams to implement and maintain security baselines, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, and auditing across the M365 environment.
• Develop and maintain automation, scripts, and integrations to streamline administration, reporting, and provisioning.
• Contribute to CI/CD and infrastructure‑as‑code practices (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub) for Microsoft 365 configuration and related workloads.
• Work with containerized and cloud workloads (e.g., Kubernetes) where they integrate with M365/Entra for identity, security, or application access.
• Lead complex incident response and root‑cause analysis for M365 and identity‑related outages and security events.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards, runbooks, and architectural diagrams for Microsoft 365 and Entra services.
• Mentor junior collaborators and provide guidance on best practices, governance, and operational excellence.

Senior Cloud Engineer

• Manage day-to-day project operations in roles such as principal investigator, project director, or task lead, ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard.
• Lead collaborative project teams by developing timelines, coordinating staff assignments.
• Identify research problems and design rigorous applied studies, including aligned research questions, methodologies, and analytic plans.
• Apply subject-matter expertise to design and implement relevant, responsive, and impactful research and technical assistance projects.
• Develop study designs with aligned research questions, methodologies, and analytic plans.
• Lead and contribute to proposals for federal, state, foundation, and other clients.
• Devise and implement innovative solutions to practical challenges in applied research.
• Lead data collection and analysis efforts, including the design of qualitative and/or quantitative data collection tools (e.g., interview protocols, focus group guides, surveys).
• Supervise field-based data collection activities, including interviews, observations, focus groups, and document reviews.
• Conduct or oversee data analysis using appropriate tools and techniques for various data types.
• Communicate study progress and findings clearly and effectively through reports, briefs, visualizations, and other materials.
• Represent the organization professionally in client interactions and manage client and stakeholder relationships with awareness of the broader policy and practice landscape.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with clients, partners, and stakeholders, and foster positive, collaborative working relationships.
• Contribute thoughtfully and creatively to project teams.

Senior Global Health Development Economist

Medicaid and Prescription Drug Data Analyst

Quantitative Education Researcher, Learning Supports

Data Analyst II

Project Specialist

Senior Global Health Development Economist

Mixed Methods Disability Researcher

Principal Researcher, Value-Based Specialty Care

Principal Researcher, Prescription Drug Policy

Medicaid Researcher, Healthcare Innovations

Medicaid and Medicare Policy Researcher

Managing Director, Medicaid

Senior Researcher, Community Safety – Violence Prevention

Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Researcher, Healthcare Transformation