Description:
- The Congressional Research Service (CRS) Office of Domestic Social Policy Division (DSP) is seeking an Analyst in Health Care Financing for its Health Insurance and Financing (HIF) Section, a unit that covers Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and private health insurance.
- We expect this analyst to work on HIF’s Medicaid team, which covers all aspects of the program including eligibility, benefits, service delivery, and financing.
- CRS analysts work in a dynamic environment providing real-time support to Congress across all phases of the legislative process including preparing written analysis and providing information through consultations, formal briefings, and other meetings. The work often requires rapid response to emerging policy issues during the legislative process.
- DSP’s Health Insurance and Financing Section covers Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and private health insurance. We expect this analyst to work on the section’s Medicaid team, which covers all aspects of the program including eligibility, benefits, service delivery, and financing. Applicants should have experience conducting analysis of issues related to one or more areas covered by the section (Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and/or private health insurance). While all candidates with substantive knowledge in any of these areas are encouraged to apply, the ideal candidate will have substantive knowledge of the Medicaid program—including relevant legislation and regulation—and experience researching Medicaid policy issues.
- Strong research, writing, and presentation skills and the ability to work as part of a collaborative team and to be responsive under time pressure are essential for success in this position. Experience with quantitative research is desirable, but not required.
- Analyst duties include:
- Preparing objective, non-partisan analytical studies, descriptive background reports, memoranda, and other written materials on public policy issues of national significance that are within the employee's area of professional knowledge.
- Providing personal consultation to congressional committees, Members, and staff on public policy issues throughout the legislative process by providing information and analysis orally and in writing, and applying professional subject-area knowledge.
- Participating in CRS seminars, workshops, and/or outreach programs for committees, Members, and staff.
- Participating in or leading team research projects and seminars.
- Locating and providing information requested by Members and committees of Congress or their staff.
- The employee is also expected to develop over time the skills necessary to provide public policy and legislative analysis and consultation to congressional committees, Members, and staff at increasingly sophisticated levels. Given the breadth of Medicaid policy that DSP covers for Congress, analysts must be capable of working on a range of issues in a portfolio that will likely evolve over time.
- CRS works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of party affiliation. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS has been a valued and respected resource on Capitol Hill for over a century.
- CRS is well known for analysis that is authoritative, confidential, objective, and nonpartisan. Its highest priority is to ensure that Congress has immediate access to the nation’s best thinking on public policy issues of interest to its Members and committees.
- Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision.
- Knowledge of Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and/or private health insurance.
- Ability to analyze public policy issues.
- Ability to write in a public policy context.
- Ability to convey analysis and information orally through briefings, consultations and other presentations.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Ability to exercise objectivity in all phases of analysis and consultation.
- Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.