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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 Senior Economist is responsible for the analysis and measuring the impact of the Ontario government and OMA proposals, income, practice environment and initiatives on physician services, particularly those related to OMA negotiations and physician contracts with the Ontario government.
How You Will Make a Difference

• Maintaining and managing datasets used in economic analysis, cleaning and updating data, inputting missing data, ensuring data and definition standardization and consistency, maintaining awareness of new external or third party data sources as they become available.
• Preparing reports, presentations, and visualizations for various departments, committees, and other stakeholders, presenting results and explaining findings of statistical analysis, and providing recommendations that influence committee decisions and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Conducting research in health economics to support the strategic goals of the organization, which could directly or indirectly influence the operation and policies of the association. The research and analysis conducted also complements the department’s activities in support of the associations negotiating committees.
• Responding to queries on data, methodologies used, data interpretations and validity/feasibility of conclusions drawn, working with other departments, domain experts, member stakeholders, and OMA committees to address concerns and resolve issues.

Requirements That Are Important To Us

• Two to five years’ relevant experience
• Master’s Degree in Economics, Statistics or equivalent, PhD preferred
• Strong knowledge of data analysis and manipulation software in SAS, STATA, Tableau and
• Experience with other software such as Excel, Powerpoint and equivalents.

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?

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

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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.