Overview

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Full-Time Temporary (FTT-D)

LOCATION: Remote (U. S. Based Locations)

*SALARY RANGE: $90,833.60 - $134,160

ORAU is seeking a Fully Remote, Senior Advisor- Decarbonization and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Data Expert to work with CMMI as an ORAU employee. The Senior Advisor will support the CMS Innovation Center’s effort to start a decarbonization initiative. Hospitals produce a signification amount of waste. As the nation’s largest health insurance payer, CMS can use its influence to reduce the amount of harmful waste that hospitals produce. An upcoming Innovation Center model called Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) includes a voluntary reporting requirement for hospitals. Hospitals will be able to submit decarbonization metrics to CMS. This position is Full-Time, Temporary.

CMMI was established by Congress in 2010 to identify ways to improve health-care quality and reduce costs in the Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP) Program. Following this charge, CMMI, through its models, initiatives, and Congressionally mandated demonstrations, has accelerated the shift from a health care system that pays for volume to one that pays for value. CMMI models are also researching and testing different approaches to innovative information technology systems which are essential to supporting this value transformation.

Responsibilities

The Senior Advisor will supply expertise to help CMS define the data reporting requirement for hospitals. CMS needs expertise in EPA Energy STAR Portfolio Manager and decarbonization concepts to complete this task.

1. Develop Technical Specifications Document for Decarbonization Reporting using the EPA's Energy STAR Portfolio Manager. The document will enable model participants (e.g., hospitals) to know the data they must submit to CMS.

2. Serve as a SME to model teams and participants: Answer questions about the data specifications; Advise participants on how to comply with the data specifications; Advise technology teams on how to build data collection solutions; Advise on how to interpret and use the data collected from hospitals and EPA STAR Portfolio Manager.

3. Refine the questions and metrics outlined in the FY 2025 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) Final Rule for the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM).

4. Engage with external partners to refine assessment questions and metrics.

5. Identify additional data to be collected from participants and EPA Energy STAR Portfolio Manager.

6. Interview up to 20 academicians, researchers, and others to review and propose modifications to assessment questions, data, and metrics.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental health science, Environmental Science, data science, or other related field.

6-9 years relevant experience.

Expert in Energy STAR Portfolio Manager data and metrics.

Expert in decarbonization concepts and reporting.

Experience supporting entities currently utilizing EPA's Energy STAR program.

*The candidate’s starting salary will be determined upon hire and ORAU will use salary survey data, internal comparators, and the candidate’s qualifications to determine salary.

TOTAL REWARDS

ORAU has a strategic approach to providing total rewards to employees through a fair, equitable, and competitive total compensation package. The goal of our total rewards system is to integrate compensation, benefits, work-life balance, performance, recognition, development, and career opportunities to attract, engage, and retain the talent required to achieve ORAU’s business objectives. The benefit component of our total rewards program supports business goals by offering the following benefits based on employee eligibility:

Legally required benefits
Retirement plan access
Travel Accident Insurance

The ORAU total reward package also promotes work-life balance. Mindful of the need for employees to care for themselves and their families, ORAU offers the following additional work-life benefits based on employee eligibility:

Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays
Flexible work schedules or compressed work weeks
Telework
Occupational Health and Wellness Programs
Employee Assistance Program

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