Research Project Manager

🇺🇸 Hybrid - New Brunswick, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $94K - $145K 💻 Project Management 🗓️ June 2nd, 2026

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Rutgers University is hiring a Research Project Manager for the Center for State Health Policy. The role involves managing complex data science, statistical analysis, and project workplans to enhance data analytic capabilities of the NJ Medicaid Business Office of Business Intelligence (OBI), enabling rapid identification of trends to improve healthcare quality and efficiency for NJ FamilyCare clients.

Highlights

Develop and oversee project workplans analyzing complex healthcare data.

Review and clean data from primary and secondary sources ensuring accuracy.

Create programming for healthcare quality measures and adapt biostatistical programs.

Collaborate with OBI colleagues to improve operational procedures and automate workflows.

Recommend system enhancements and prepare standard and ad hoc reports for Medicaid units.

Develop dashboards to provide actionable insights on business metrics for senior management.

Required software skills: Access, SAS, SQL, SAP BI, Tableau, and MS Office.

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in relevant fields and 5+ years of experience querying and analyzing healthcare datasets; advanced degree may substitute for experience.

Preferred qualifications: Master's degree, experience with hospital billing/EHR data, Medicaid/Medicare claims analysis, and healthcare quality indicators (NCQA HEDIS, AHRQ, PQA).