**Location:** Avera Downtown Building-Sioux Falls **Worker Type:** Regular **Work Shift:** Day Shift (United States of America) **Position Highlights** **Please submit your application materials for this position via WittKieffer's Candidate Portal, which can be accessed** **here (https://wittkieffer.com/positions/200479)** **.** **Do not click the apply button below. You need only to apply through WittKieffer.** **For more information, questions, or nominations, please contact the WittKieffer consultants supporting this search, Zach Durst or Scott Dethloff via email: zdurst** **@wittkieffer.com (twilson@wittkieffer.com)** **or sdethioff@wittkieffer.com.** **You Belong at Avera** **Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.** **A Brief Overview** ​​The Vice President, Data and Analytics is accountable on behalf of Avera Health to foster value creation by means of Avera Health's data assets and external data ecosystem. Core accountability would include: ​Aligning data policy and administration with relevant regulatory, legal, and ethical mandates ​Create local and regional healthcare value through a robust data and analytics strategy ​Envision, create, and manage data-enabled population health strategies ​Enable all forms of health economics and population health analysis ​Drive an integrated view of Avera Health data (Claims, EMR/Provider, Pharmacy) ​Coordinate data and analytics governance strategy. **What you will do** + Responsible and accountable for exploiting the value of Avera Health data and enterprise information assets. This includes analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions and augmentation of human performance. Serve as the leader of data-driven insights that help support the execution of strategic and tactical business opportunities. + Work across the leadership spectrum of peers, executive/senior leadership and local operational partners to establish a vision to maximize the return on data assets. Develop analytics and data methodologies that ensure the consistent application and use of analytics. Establish and manage the governance of data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications and automated decision making. + Define data and analytics strategy practices, lead the creation (and assure the ongoing relevance) of the Avera’s data and analytics strategy in collaboration with the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). + Implement an enterprise operating model that is consistent with the capabilities and competencies required to execute the strategy. Define processes for the effective integration of new data. Create and expand open data offerings to empower patients and to enable better government and commercial account services. + Research, create and develop new data products or services to expand markets and grow company services and revenue. Expand the organization’s research and analytics offerings, especially in emerging analytical approaches, skills, and technologies, focusing them on digital business innovation. + Foster the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across the enterprise with a focus on promoting data self-service. Identify new sources of data that enable innovation throughout the organization. Create and oversee a centralized service for integrating external data (ex., EMR) to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness in support of Population Health and Social Determinants of Health. + Lead regulatory and compliance programs related to data and analytics assets. Act as the corporate representative to regulators. Ensure that appropriate audit controls exist for data and analytics that serve as the source material for regulatory reports. Ensure that the data used for financial reporting and to support legal requirements is valid, reliable, traceable, timely, available, secure, and consistent. Develop and maintain controls on data quality, interoperability, and sources to effectively manage the corporate risk associated with the use of data and analytics + Define, manage, and advance enterprise information management principles, policies and programs for stewardship, advocacy and custodianship of data and analytics, in partnership with legal, information security, and corporate risk and compliance offices. + Evolve and institutionalize behaviors for the appropriate use of information taking into consideration changing security requirements, privacy needs, ethical values, societal expectations, and cultural norms (in collaboration with the Vice President, Information Security and legal counsel). + Organize and lead a data and analytics center of expertise and constantly improve the organization’s capacity to develop insights with advanced analytics. Define job roles, recruit candidates, and manage (directly or indirectly) a team of data and analytics professionals. + Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. **Essential Qualifications** The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer. **Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:** + Bachelor's + 10+ years of data, software development and business experience at or near the executive level. + Experience in SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server, Power BI, Qlik, Tableau, AWS Cloud Technologies **Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:** + Master's + Business experience in a healthcare setting + Strategy and management consulting experience, broad business experience internally and within the vertical industry as well as broad experience in multiple competency areas of data and analytics delivery **Expectations and Standards** + Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community. + Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship. + Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity. + Maintain confidentiality. + Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment. + Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable. **Benefits You Need & Then Some** Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future. + PTO front-loaded for eligible hires + Free health insurance options, for full-time single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan + Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement + Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship _Avera is an Equal_ _Opportunity/Affirmative_ _Action Employer_ _Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual_ _Orientation/Gender Identity. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to_ _talent@avera.org_ _._ At Avera, the way you are treated as an employee translates into the compassionate care you deliver to patients and team members. Because we consider health care a ministry, you can live out your faith, uphold the dignity and respect of all persons while not compromising high-quality services. Join us in making a positive impact on moving health forward. The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-504-4444. Additional Notices: For TTY, dial 711 Avera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.