Remote Business Analyst

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.

Job Highlights

Location: Remote, must be based in the United States

Salary Range: $76,500-$108,650 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.

Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity

Position End Date: June 30, 2025

Overview

The Business Analyst will support the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

The Cameron County Environmental Health Program protects community health by enforcing sanitation, sewage, and food service regulations, and conducting vector control. The program’s current goal is to improve information sharing among public health department programs and provide accessible environmental health program information to the public. To achieve the goal, the Business Analyst will collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams to transform paper-based permitting, investigation, and enforcement processes into an integrated electronic system. The Business Analyst will gather requirements, ensure they are correctly understood by program staff, leadership, and vendors, provide user training and change management, and facilitate alignment towards the planning and implementation of a business solution.

The Business Analyst will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Cameron County Public Health Environmental Health Program. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in requirements gathering/JAD sessions; working closely with Project or Product Manager(s), developers, subject matter experts, vendors, and users.
• Define and document requirements, use cases, and assure these reflect the department’s business needs requirements.
• Develop and support comprehensive user acceptance testing of the application.
• Assess the feasibility of an existing permitting system used by other departments in Cameron County as a possible business solution.
• Work with user community, technical teams and vendors to meet implementation timeline.
• Develop requests for proposals for services required for any governmental contract.
• Conduct and direct end-user testing responsibilities.
• May perform data quality assurance; troubleshooting application and/or interfaces as problems arise and report issues.
• Facilitate business/functional requirement review, approval, and sign-off sessions.
• Document business practices and workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, support process improvement, discover issues and deliver improved value.
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements.
• Assist with the development and monitor service level agreements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or related field required, or combination of degree and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience as a business analyst, project, or implementation manager.
• Experience writing Use Cases to document requirements.
• Experience writing RFPs to procure responses from software vendors.
• Experience collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to translate user and technical requirements and lead the team through smooth and continuous delivery.
• Experience in implementation of IT system in a government agency.
• Knowledge or experience working within government procurement procedures.
• Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, principles and processes.
• Experienced in change management and risk management principles and processes to provide leadership in the development of strategic plans and change management initiatives and their roll-out.
• Experience using data to make decisions, gathering data insights by design to improve outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining working relationships with internal and external partners and can effectively promote collaboration among differing viewpoints.
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems.
• Ability to communicate and articulate problems and resolutions to technical and non-technical teams.
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Bilingual preferred; at a minimum the ability to read and understand Spanish.

Special Notes

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.

We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.