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Salary: Compensation will be commensurate to the selected hire’s experience.  

Cover Letter/Resume: A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended.   

Qualifications

Required Education

• Appropriate JD or PhD in a field related to health policy

Preferred Qualifications

• Coursework, research, or applied experience in policies on health services or social services;

• Coursework, research, or applied experience in empirical legal research (e.g., policy surveillance, legal epidemiology, legal mapping studies) or other qualitative analyses;

• Applied policy experience in healthcare, health insurance, public health, or social services (e.g., prior work at a government agency);

• Coursework, research, or applied experience in policies on foster care services;

• Coursework, research, or applied experience in the legal or ethical issues related to data science, big data, surveillance.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in policy surveillance and legal epidemiology

• Advanced writing ability

• Excellent verbal and written skills

• Presentation skills

• Analytical skills

• Attention to detail

• Demonstrated ability to concurrently attend to multiple deliverables, work independently, and work cooperatively with others

Responsibilities

• Research: Exploring legal, policy, or ethical issues relating to public health, public safety, and health and social services. Specific projects could include investigating policies relating to Medicaid, Mental/Behavioral Health, Foster Care Services, or Health Data Policy. Activities will include writing reports, papers, or proposals. Under general supervision, is responsible for conducting research into their field of expertise. Utilizes knowledge and skills granted to them by their education and expertise to complete research projects in their field of expertise. Assists with data management. Analyzes research data and summarizes results. Writes and may contribute to reports, research papers, articles, and publications.

• Mentoring: May assist, mentor, and/or supervise student researchers and/or graduate students who are working on research related to the project, and lead other duties as assigned.

• Presentations: Prepares presentation materials on research topic that may be presented to small and/or large groups. Actively participates in the preparation of required technical progress reports to research sponsors.

Why Texas A&M University?

We are a prestigious university with strong traditions, Core Values, and a community of caring and collaboration.  Amenities associated with a major university, such as sporting and cultural events, state-of-the-art recreation facilities, the Bush Library and Museum, and much more await you.  Experience all that a big city has to offer but with a reasonable cost-of-living and no long commutes.  

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life and AD&D, flexible spending accounts, and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums 

• 12-15 days of annual paid holidays  

• Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month 

• Automatically enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas 

• Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time 

• Professional Development: All employees have access to free LinkedIn Learning training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more  

• Educational release time and tuition assistance for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee 

• Living Well, a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees 

Instructions to Applicants: Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.