SH-1003 Public Health Financial Feasibility & Sustainability Specialist
Position Overview:
The Public Health Financial Feasibility & Sustainability Specialist provides specialized financial analytics, economic evaluation, feasibility assessment, and sustainability planning across Syra Health's Public Health Practice. This role will translate public health outcomes, program costs, operational requirements, and healthcare utilization data into defensible financial models and actionable recommendations. The role will support client engagements requiring return on investment analysis, budget-impact assessment, cost-benefit analysis, sustainable financing strategy, and implementation decision support. The ideal candidate combines strong financial modeling skills with an understanding of public health programs, healthcare financing, and the limitations of public-sector data. The Public Health Financial Feasibility & Sustainability Specialist is an integral member of the Public Health Practice team, contributing to high-quality, evidence-based financial analytics and sustainability planning for clients and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
A. Financial Analytics & ROI
- Develop ROI, budget-impact, cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, break-even, and financial forecasting models for public health programs and interventions.
- Identify and define cost categories, financial outcomes, data requirements, assumptions, calculation methods, and analytical limitations.
- Estimate program costs, potential savings, avoided costs, revenue opportunities, and financial implications for relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct scenario, sensitivity, threshold, and risk analyses to evaluate uncertainty and test key assumptions.
- Translate clinical, population health, operational, utilization, and health equity outcomes into measurable financial or economic value when supported by available evidence.
- Clearly distinguish observed findings, calculated estimates, projections, and illustrative scenarios.
- Validate financial models and maintain transparent documentation that allows calculations to be reviewed and reproduced.
B. Feasibility Assessment
- Assess the financial, operational, technical, workforce, policy, and organizational feasibility of proposed initiatives.
- Evaluate implementation readiness, resource requirements, dependencies, financial risks, barriers, and enabling conditions.
C. Sustainability & Financing Strategy
- Identify sustainable financing mechanisms, including grants, public appropriations, Medicaid-related pathways, health-plan partnerships, value-based arrangements, reimbursement opportunities, and braided or blended funding.
- Develop financing-option matrices comparing eligibility, revenue potential, implementation requirements, timing, administrative burden, risk, and long-term viability.
- Create sustainability plans addressing staffing, infrastructure, governance, partnerships, funding diversification, performance measurement, and long-term ownership.
- Connect program outcomes and financial findings to legislative, budget, grant, investment, and operational decisions.
- Identify practical strategies for maintaining successful programs after initial or grant-based funding ends.
D. Public Health Practice Support
- Collaborate with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, evaluators, data engineers, public health consultants, and subject-matter experts.
- Integrate epidemiologic, evaluation, utilization, cost, reimbursement, and operational data into financial analyses.
- Review data quality and determine whether available evidence is sufficient to support defensible financial conclusions.
- Prepare client-ready reports, financial models, technical memoranda, presentations, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
- Develop reusable ROI, feasibility, budget-impact, and sustainability tools for use across the Public Health Practice.
Core Deliverables
Depending on the engagement, deliverables may include:
- ROI and budget-impact models
- Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses
- Program cost and financial forecasting models
- Scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses
- Business cases and feasibility assessments
- Sustainable financing plans
- Financing-option matrices
- Implementation and resource requirement estimates
- Client-ready technical reports and presentations
- Reusable financial modeling tools, assumptions logs, and methodological documentation
Qualifications & Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree in health economics, economics, finance, public health, healthcare administration, business analytics, public policy, or a related quantitative field required. Master's degree in health economics, economics, finance, public health, healthcare administration, public policy, or a related field preferred.
- Experience: Minimum three years of relevant experience in financial analysis, healthcare analytics, health economics, economic evaluation, program evaluation, or public-sector consulting required. Four years of post-undergraduate experience or one year post-Master's degree preferred.
- Certifications: None required. Relevant financial modeling, healthcare analytics, or public health certifications preferred.
- Skills: Demonstrated experience developing ROI models, budget-impact analyses, business cases, financial forecasts, or comparable decision-support analyses. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, data validation, and visualization. Ability to analyze public health, healthcare utilization, operational, and financial data from multiple sources. Ability to evaluate data sufficiency and avoid unsupported financial conclusions. Strong technical writing and the ability to communicate complex financial findings to nonfinancial audiences. Ability to document formulas, assumptions, data sources, limitations, and analytical decisions clearly.
Core Competencies
- Financial and economic modeling
- ROI and budget-impact analysis
- Public health program evaluation
- Feasibility and implementation analysis
- Sustainable financing strategy
- Scenario, sensitivity, and risk analysis
- Data-quality assessment
- Strategic decision support
- Technical writing and client communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Equity-centered analysis
- Proactive approach to maintaining analytical accuracy and transparency
- Commitment to quality improvement and ongoing professional development
Working Conditions
- Work with complex public health, healthcare utilization, operational, and financial data from multiple sources.
- Communicate and interact with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, evaluators, data engineers, public health consultants, subject-matter experts, and clients on a daily basis.
- Prepare for the possibility of urgent analytical requests or unexpected data needs.
- Manage multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining analytical accuracy and documentation quality.
- Work in a remote or hybrid environment with virtual collaboration tools.
Physical Requirements:
Must be able to lift and carry up to 15 pounds. Position requires sitting between 33% and 66% of time on duty. Use of hands to finger, handle, or feel over 66% of time on duty. Reaching with hands or arms less than 33% of time. Full ability to talk and hear. Correctable vision required. Extended periods of computer work required.
Syra Health Corp is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.