Economist

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The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) advocates for and supports doctors, seeking to strengthen their leadership role in caring for patients. We continually seek to be the trusted voice in transforming Ontario’s health-care system by courageously pursuing best practices, new ideas, solutions, and opportunities to improve.

Job Summary

The Economist is responsible for providing research and policy analysis in the area of health care economics as it relates to the medical profession.

How You Will Make a Difference

1. Providing descriptive analyses of medical services utilization and payments to support fee setting, allocations and payment increase processes, negotiations and medical procedure funding, gathering pertinent information from OMA staff, Section Chairs, MOHLTC representatives and negotiating committees, conducting analyses, developing costing methods, preparing utilization projections and costing estimates and preparing reports, graphs and charts and presenting findings and results.
2. Developing, analyzing and implementing government proposals and policies, conducting analyses to determine proposal costs and OMA business activities and funding impacts, identifying issues and concerns, providing recommendations and implementing proposals and policies.
3. Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the data provided reflects the current political and economic landscape for physicians in Ontario, participating on committees to provide input and advice and liaising with industry colleagues to keep abreast of emerging trends.
4. Managing the communication of relevant and timely information with internal and external stakeholders, responding to tariff/billing related inquiries and requests for data, information and historical trends from Committee and OMA members, providing fee schedule updates, advising members on fee setting and proposal submission processes, and sharing analytical results to support committee initiatives.
5. Leading original economic inquiries and composing policy reports and technical documents on a range of compensation and health workforce topics. This includes transforming large datasets for research, accurately performing statistical analysis and testing, interpreting results, and communicating findings to internal and external stakeholders with a high degree of political acuity and sensitivity.

Requirements That Are Important to Us

1. Master’s degree in Economics, Health Policy or equivalent.
2. Specialized knowledge of statistical/economic software, SAS, STATA, Word, Excel and PowerPoint software applications.
3. 2-5 years of experience.

The OMA has moved to a permanent hybrid work environment. As such, the individual in this position will be required to work a minimum number of days in our Toronto office.

What Do We Have to Offer You?

1. A work environment whose values are to be respectful, bold, responsive, and transparent in our work and our behaviours.
2. A fantastic opportunity to grow with the team and help shape the strategic direction of the OMA, its members and the health-care system.
3. An organization that is committed to the equity, diversity and inclusion principles of humility, accountability, collaboration, courage and integrity.
4. A commitment to growth and development through paid professional development and continuous in-house learning.
5. A friendly and flexible hybrid work environment.
6. Competitive salary and bonus program.
7. Exceptional group benefits package, including a spending account and a robust wellness program.
8. An organization that has been recognized as Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for five consecutive years.

As a condition of employment, OMA conducts background checks and reference checks for all open positions.

The Ontario Medical Association is strongly committed to diversity within its community and welcomes applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. In accordance with the AODA Act, accommodation will be provided throughout the recruitment process to applicants with disabilities.