Business Analyst

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  

Location: Remote, must be based in the United States

Salary Range: $76,500-$108,650 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.

Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity

Position End Date: June 30, 2025

The Business Analyst will support the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

 

Working within the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Business Analyst will collaborate across technical and non-technical teams to gather requirements, assure that requirements are correctly understood by developers, assure user training and change management, and facilitate alignment towards the planning and implementation of a public health data systems project. Specifically, the Business Analyst will engage with the various bureaus under the Division of Public Health in order to map out the data exchange processes within each bureau. The insights gathered from these discussions will then be leveraged to develop comprehensive reports for each bureau outlining the strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity. These reports will then inform future process improvement projects which the Business Analyst will continue to support.

 

The Business Analyst will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in requirements gathering/JAD sessions; working closely with Project or Product Manager(s), developers, subject matter experts, vendors, and users.
• Define and document requirements and use cases and assure these are correctly understood by developers.
• Develop comprehensive test cases at the application and multi-application levels.
• Work with user community, technical teams and vendors to meet implementation timeline.
• Conduct and direct end-user testing responsibilities.
• May perform data quality assurance; troubleshooting application and/or interfaces as problems arise and report issues.
• Facilitate business/functional requirement review, approval, and sign-off sessions.
• Document business practices and workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, support process improvement, discover issues and deliver improved value.
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements. Monitor service level agreements.   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience as a business analyst, project, or implementation manager.
• Experience writing Use Cases to document requirements.
• Experience collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to translate user and technical requirements and lead the team through smooth and continuous delivery.
• Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, principles and processes.
• Experienced in change management and risk management principles and processes to provide leadership in the development of strategic plans and change management initiatives and their roll-out.
• Experience using data to make decisions, gathering data insights by design to improve outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining working relationships with internal and external partners and can effectively promote collaboration among differing viewpoints.
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems.
• Knowledge of user experience design and user research principles and concepts.
• Ability to communicate and articulate problems and resolutions to technical and non-technical teams.
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.