Public Health Financial Feasibility & Sustainability Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

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.
• Create 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.

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.

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.