Tanaq Government Services, LLC

Reviewer

• Reviews medical records/case file, writes a decision that is clear, concise, and impartial and supports the determination made, and documents review
• Makes sound, independent decisions based on medical evidence in accordance with statutes, regulation, rulings, and policy
• Responds to and ensures that all issues raised by the beneficiary, representative, supplier, and provider have been addressed
• Provides a fair and impartial decision based on current evidence, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Conducts research using online federal regulations, contract policy, standards of medical practice, contract manuals, coverage issues manuals, medical literature, and other related resources to complete an accurate and well-supported decision
• Stays abreast of changes in regulations, medical and healthcare practices, policies and procedures
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned

Medicare Appeals Reviewer I – Dispute Resolution Reviewer I

Medical Reviewer

• Evaluate complex Medicare appeals and dispute cases
• Review clinical documentation
• Interpret federal regulations
• Issue appeal determinations supported by medical evidence and policy
• Provide independent second-level determinations and dispute resolutions
• Conduct research using online federal regulations, contract policy, standards of medical practice and other related resources
• Participate in case-specific verbal discussions
• Mentor and/or train staff if needed
• Conduct quality reviews and audits as needed

Medicare Clinical Appeals Reviewer III

Project Manager

• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, risk registers, action item trackers, status reports, and deliverable matrices for LQMS-related activities.
• Monitor project performance and ensure project deliverables and milestones are met.
• Serve as a key coordinator among CDC laboratory leadership, client representatives, quality managers, scientific staff, safety personnel, regulatory stakeholders, vendors, and contractor team members to align expectations, resolve issues, and maintain project momentum.
• Coordinate activities that support implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and improvement of laboratory QMS/LQMS processes, including quality plans, SOPs, quality records, assessments, management review inputs, and quality objectives.
• Support compliance activities associated with applicable laboratory standards and requirements such as ISO 17025, ISO 15189, ISO 9001, CLIA, CAP, GLP, FDA quality requirements, CDC policies, and other program-specific expectations.
• Plan, coordinate, and track internal audits, external assessments, gap analyses, inspection readiness activities, audit evidence collection, deficiency tracking, and corrective action follow-up.
• Coordinate review and tracking of validation plans, verification packages, method performance documentation, technical modifications, validation summary reports, reagent stability reviews, and other laboratory quality deliverables.
• Track nonconforming events, feedback, complaints, root cause analyses, corrective actions, preventive actions, effectiveness checks, and trend reports to support timely resolution and sustained process improvement.
• Coordinate SOP development, document review cycles, controlled document publication, records retention, eBinder management, quality records, training records, and electronic document management activities.
• Develop and maintain quality indicators, dashboards, audit findings trackers, CAPA trackers, validation status trackers, project performance metrics, and executive-level reports for laboratory leadership and client stakeholders.
• Support development, scheduling, tracking, and reporting of laboratory quality training, competency assessments, onboarding resources, job aids, and role-based training requirements.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, resource constraints, process gaps, and recurring quality concerns. Recommend mitigation strategies and support continuous improvement initiatives that improve laboratory efficiency, compliance, data integrity, and operational reliability.

Lab QMS Project Manager

Quality Specialist

• Assist with the development, implementation, and annual assessment of the laboratory Quality Assurance program.
• Review all laboratory quality occurrence data; provide reports to include specific monitors as defined by the Manager/Director, and graphical data to department management, clients, and customers.
• As the document control officer for Laboratory Services procedures, ensure annual review, and approve all policies.
• Coordinate CDC’s point-of-care (POC) testing program activities, including equipment evaluation, policy development, and implementation/monitoring of quality control.
• Prepare, implement, and initiate laboratory policy and procedures review, conducting literature searches to ensure regulatory agency requirements are addressed and met.
• Coordinate department activities necessary for all accreditation and governmental agency standards.
• Manage equipment maintenance, documentation, cleaning, and decontamination for repair.
• Coordinate third-party vendor maintenance contract activities.
• Upload ELIMS with equipment and link to rooms.
• Document and complete non-conforming event steps, utilizing the NCE database.
• Monitor the daily temperature, using data loggers and liquid in glass thermometers.
• Download temperature deviations using the USB EasyLog Software.
• Coordinate the validation and implementation of new testing and instrumentation.
• Create and deliver formal and informal committee meeting presentations and educational programs.
• Direct meetings and discussions with coordinators and staff in developing strategy and action plans for programs/projects.
• Serve as primary point of contact with client quality managers.
• Analyze and respond to Risk Management inquiries, unusual incident reports, and client concerns.
• Perform other duties as assigned, which include assisting with staffing needs across the service line as competencies allow.

Laboratory Quality Specialist III

Data Analyst

• Provide technical data extraction, management, integration, and advanced analytic support including analytic approaches to examine relationships between implementation processes and program outcomes.
• Extract APR and performance measurement data; Develop structured analytic datasets; Standardize and harmonize variables across reporting cycles; Maintain documentation of extraction procedures.
• Conduct systematic data cleaning and validation; Identify missing or inconsistent data; Implement reproducible validation scripts; Document data quality issues and corrective actions.
• Compile DPRP encounter-level datasets; Conduct descriptive and longitudinal analyses; Analyze engagement and outcomes; Generate standardized outputs.
• Compile ADA and ADCES datasets; Harmonize data elements; Conduct cross-site comparative analyses; Assess reach and outcomes.
• Identify relevant national datasets (as directed); Acquire and integrate secondary datasets; Conduct comparative and contextual analyses; Document limitations and assumptions; Apply analytic methods to assess how implementation factors (e.g., reach, fidelity, adaptation) influence outcomes.
• Perform other duties as required.

Data Analyst I

Program Manager

• Provide oversight and management of personnel, to include onboarding and required training.
• Responsible for evaluation oversight, recipient performance monitoring, technical assistance, and continuous quality improvement across DDT-funded contracts and cooperative agreements across the branch.
• Develop and refine evaluation plans (non–cooperative agreement–specific national and programmatic plans); Develop and update logic models, performance measurement frameworks, and indicator matrices; Align evaluation approaches with funding requirements and DDT priorities; Develop performance monitoring plans; Provide consultation to CDC staff, including consultation on application of implementation research frameworks, study design, and measurement approaches.
• Provide ongoing evaluation and performance monitoring support to recipients and national partners; Conduct recurring evaluation support calls; Review APRs and recipient evaluation deliverables; Provide written feedback and corrective action recommendations; Monitor compliance and identify trends.
• Provide evaluation technical assistance; Develop and deliver evaluation webinars; Develop recipient/partner-facing evaluation tools and guidance including tools and guidance to support implementation assessment (e.g., fidelity, monitoring, adaptation tracking, and barriers/facilitators assessment); Support recipient/partner meeting content development; Respond to evaluation reporting inquiries.
• Participate in virtual and in-person monitoring site visits (estimated two in-person visits unless otherwise directed); Review background materials; Document findings; Provide performance improvement recommendations.
• Identify performance gaps; Monitor metrics, user/participant feedback and evaluations; Facilitate structured improvement processes using data-informed and implementation science-informed approaches to identify and address barriers to effective implementation; Support development of corrective action plans; Support programmatic updates/revisions; Support SOP implementation across programmatic systems.
• Document lessons learned. Prepare routine and ad hoc evaluation reports; Develop presentations and briefing materials; Provide programmatic review of national evaluation materials; Support leadership briefings.
• Communicate with the COR regarding performance and/or personnel concerns.
• Perform other duties as required.

Public Health Evaluation Program Manager

Public Health

• Participate in the development and management of cooperative agreement–specific national and rapid evaluations;
• Coordinate cross-recipient evaluation activities;
• Support synthesis while coordinating with Data Analysts for analytic execution that may require familiarity with implementation research design, including mixed-methods data analysis.
• Participate in the development of National Evaluation Plans;
• Develop cross-site logic models;
• Define evaluation questions and standardized indicators including questions focused on implementation processes and mechanisms of impact;
• Develop data collection tools;
• Establish evaluation timelines.
• Implement national data collection (surveys, interviews, document review) using qualitative and quantitative methods appropriate for assessing implementation processes and context;
• Conduct data triangulation and synthesis;
• Coordinate cross-recipient participation;
• Monitor adherence to protocols;
• Monitor use of CDC promotion resources and conduct evaluations implementing promotion-focused strategies.
• Develop Rapid Evaluation Plans;
• Review APRs to identify candidate sites;
• Manage nomination and selection process;
• Conduct landscape analyses including rapid assessments of implementation context, barriers, and facilitators;
• Conduct evaluation-specific site visits;
• Synthesize findings.
• Identify 3–5 emerging practices;
• Select 2–3 recipients for case studies;
• Conduct case study data collection and synthesis that may include implementation research methods to identify key strategies, adaptations, and other contextual factors;
• Consult on case studies and lessons learned focused on promotions;
• Document facilitators and barriers.
• Prepare national and rapid evaluation reports;
• Develop executive summaries and leadership briefings;
• Draft dissemination products.
• Provide ongoing evaluation and performance monitoring support to recipients and national partners;
• Conduct recurring evaluation support calls;
• Review APRs and recipient evaluation deliverables;
• Provide written feedback and corrective action recommendations;
• Monitor compliance and identify trends.
• Provide evaluation technical assistance;
• Develop and deliver evaluation webinars;
• Develop recipient/partner-facing evaluation tools and guidance including tools and guidance to support implementation assessment (e.g., fidelity, monitoring, adaptation tracking, and barriers/facilitators assessment);
• Support recipient/partner meeting content development;
• Respond to evaluation reporting inquiries.
• Participate in virtual and in-person monitoring site visits (estimated two in-person visits unless otherwise directed);
• Review background materials;
• Document findings;
• Provide performance improvement recommendations.
• Identify performance gaps;
• Monitor metrics, user/participant feedback and evaluations;
• Facilitate structured improvement processes using data-informed and implementation science-informed approaches to identify and address barriers to effective implementation;
• Support development of corrective action plans;
• Support programmatic updates/revisions;
• Support SOP implementation across programmatic systems.
• Document lessons learned.
• Prepare routine and ad hoc evaluation reports;
• Develop presentations and briefing materials;
• Provide programmatic review of national evaluation materials;
• Support leadership briefings.
• Perform other duties as required.

Health Scientist I – Public Health Evaluation

• Develop and manage cooperative agreement–specific national and rapid evaluations;
• Coordinate cross-recipient evaluation activities;
• Oversee synthesis while coordinating with Data Analysts for analytic execution that may require expertise in implementation research design, including mixed-methods data analysis.
• Develop National Evaluation Plans;
• Develop cross-site logic models;
• Define evaluation questions and standardized indicators including questions focused on implementation processes and mechanisms of impact;
• Develop data collection tools;
• Establish evaluation timelines.
• Implement national data collection (surveys, interviews, document review) using qualitative and quantitative methods appropriate for assessing implementation processes and context;
• Conduct data triangulation and synthesis;
• Coordinate cross-recipient participation;
• Monitor adherence to protocols;
• Monitor use of CDC promotion resources and conduct evaluations implementing promotion-focused strategies.
• Develop Rapid Evaluation Plans;
• Review APRs to identify candidate sites;
• Manage nomination and selection process;
• Conduct landscape analyses including rapid assessments of implementation context, barriers, and facilitators;
• Conduct evaluation-specific site visits;
• Synthesize findings.
• Identify 3–5 emerging practices;
• Select 2–3 recipients for case studies;
• Conduct case study data collection and synthesis that may include implementation research methods to identify key strategies, adaptations, and other contextual factors;
• Consult on case studies and lessons learned focused on promotions;
• Document facilitators and barriers.
• Prepare national and rapid evaluation reports;
• Develop executive summaries and leadership briefings;
• Draft dissemination products.
• Provide ongoing evaluation and performance monitoring support to recipients and national partners;
• Conduct recurring evaluation support calls;
• Review APRs and recipient evaluation deliverables;
• Provide written feedback and corrective action recommendations;
• Monitor compliance and identify trends.
• Provide evaluation technical assistance;
• Develop and deliver evaluation webinars;
• Develop recipient/partner-facing evaluation tools and guidance including tools and guidance to support implementation assessment (e.g., fidelity, monitoring, adaptation tracking, and barriers/facilitators assessment);
• Support recipient/partner meeting content development;
• Respond to evaluation reporting inquiries.
• Participate in virtual and in-person monitoring site visits (estimated two in-person visits unless otherwise directed);
• Review background materials;
• Document findings;
• Provide performance improvement recommendations.
• Identify performance gaps;
• Monitor metrics, user/participant feedback and evaluations;
• Facilitate structured improvement processes using data-informed and implementation science-informed approaches to identify and address barriers to effective implementation;
• Support development of corrective action plans;
• Support programmatic updates/revisions;
• Support SOP implementation across programmatic systems.
• Document lessons learned.
• Prepare routine and ad hoc evaluation reports;
• Develop presentations and briefing materials;
• Provide programmatic review of national evaluation materials;
• Support leadership briefings.
• Perform other duties as required.

Health Scientist II – Public Health Evaluation

Administrative Assistant

• Gather, collect, record, track, and verify data and information from multiple sources.
• Perform day-to-day operations, ensuring that policies and procedures are followed, that goals and objectives are met, and that services and projects are accomplished efficiently and effectively; take corrective action as necessary.
• Maintain records that provide for the proper evaluation, control, and documentation of assigned activities; prepare a variety of written correspondence, reports, and other materials as appropriate.
• Use MS Office Suite to compile and generate reports, timelines, tables, graphs, correspondence, and presentations.
• Assist staff with travel arrangements such as researching hotel locations and costs, gathering travel requests, researching cost estimates, and preparing orders and vouchers in the travel system ICAP.
• Assist PMO/PCO with property and changes and updates.
• Provide travel support.
• Provide on/offboarding support to staff.
• Provide administrative support to directors, portfolio managers and team leaders and participate in weekly and monthly meetings.
• Provide Executive Administrative support and backup.
• Provide Executive Administrative support to the Deputy Director of Management and Operations.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.