Research Project Manager

🇺🇸 Hybrid - New Brunswick, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $94K - $145K 💻 Project Management 🗓️ June 16th, 2026

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is hiring a Research Project Manager for the Center for State Health Policy. The manager will develop project workplans, perform complex data science and statistical analyses, and provide technical guidance to expand the data analytics capabilities of the NJ Medicaid Business Office of Business Intelligence. The role involves managing healthcare data systems, ensuring data accuracy, automating processes, and creating dashboards to inform senior management on healthcare service improvements.

Highlights

Develop and oversee project workplans for data analysis within NJ Medicaid Business Office of Business Intelligence (OBI).

Perform complex data science, statistical analysis, and biostatistical programming on healthcare quality measures.

Review and clean data from multiple sources, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Collaborate with colleagues to analyze and improve operational procedures and recommend software or system enhancements.

Create and manage dashboards to provide actionable insights for senior management.

Required proficiency in SQL, data visualization tools such as Tableau, and programming languages like SAS.

Must have a bachelor's degree in epidemiology, health informatics, public health, economics, engineering, computer science, or related field.

Minimum five years of experience in querying, analyzing, and reporting complex healthcare datasets; advanced degree may substitute two years of experience.

Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and experience with Medicaid/Medicare claims, hospital billing/EHR data, HEDIS quality measures, and multi-disciplinary project collaboration.