Epidemiology Strategist

Summary

Join Skylight, a digital consultancy, as an epidemiologist to improve public health digital infrastructure. Collaborate with teams to ensure information systems align with public health practices, providing subject matter expertise and a systematic approach. You will help ensure evolving features, user experience, and data models align with public health policies and data needs of health departments. Work with stakeholders to align system workflows with public health policies and practices. Identify user needs and system issues, and contribute to a collaborative leadership group. This is a fully remote, full-time position offering a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in public health practice, including past employment history at the state, tribal, local, and territorial health department level
• MPH, MSPH, or PhD in Epidemiology, or MD
• Familiarity with integrated disease surveillance systems and case investigation workflows
• Comfort with ambiguity, iterative problem solving, and helping teams prioritize the most meaningful next step
• Experience navigating and adapting to evolving public health policies, data requirements, and real-world constraints
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
• A passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time
• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories
• Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute

Responsibilities

• Act as an internal epidemiology strategist, collaborating with technical, product, and research leads to represent the lived experiences of epidemiologists and disease investigators in information system design, development, and implementation decisions
• Partner with CDC and state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health stakeholders to align system workflows and functionality with evolving public health policies, practices, and data requirements
• Ensure the system supports real-world case investigation and surveillance workflows across a range of conditions and programs
• Partner with Skylight public health informaticians to provide subject matter expertise on integrating core public health data streams (e.g., electronic laboratory reporting [ELR], electronic case reporting [eCR], syndromic surveillance, vital records, immunizations)
• Help identify which user needs and system issues to tackle first — and how to approach them iteratively, using principles from human-centered design
• Contribute to a collaborative, cross-contract leadership group and help ensure public health voices are represented at every level

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying human-centered design principles to public health or health IT work
• Recognized reputation across the public health community for public health practice excellence
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote team environment

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid time-off-policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good