Government Operations Consultant Iii

Overview

Requisition No: 871842

Agency:
Agency for Health Care Administration

Working Title:

- GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT III

Pay Plan:
Career Service

Position Number:

Salary: $1,945.56 - $2,681.99 Biweekly

Posting Closing Date: 03/24/2026

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Agency Overview:
The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is Florida's chief health policy and planning entity. The Agency is responsible for administering the Florida Medicaid program, the licensure and regulation of nearly 50,000 health care facilities, and empowering consumers through health care transparency initiatives. Under the direction of the Agency Secretary, AHCA is focused on advancing Governor DeSantis’ vision for Florida’s health care system to be the most cost-effective, transparent, and high-quality health care system in the nation.

The Medicaid program provides low-income families and individuals with access to health care. If you have a desire to use your talent and skills at an organization that provides critical services to millions of individuals and families across the state, AHCA invites you to apply to become an essential member of our team. As one of Florida’s leading state agencies, AHCA’s diverse workforce community of more than 1,400 employees is proud of its efforts to serve the people of Florida.

Agency Objectives: HIGH QUALITY | Emphasizing quality in all that we do to improve health outcomes, always putting the individual first. TRANSPARENT | Supporting initiatives that promote transparency and empower consumers in making well informed healthcare decisions. COST-EFFECTIVE | Leveraging Florida’s buying power in delivering high quality care at the lowest cost to taxpayers.

Position Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the quality of health care in Florida. We are seeking to hire a Government Operations Consultant III who desires to work to enhance the delivery of health care services through the Florida Medicaid Program. This position requires a candidate who is creative, flexible, innovative, and who will thrive in a fast-paced, team-based work environment.

This position is located in the Bureau of Medicaid Data Analytics. Join Data Analytics as we gather, explore, and examine data to provide meaningful and impactful analysis that shapes the future of Florida Medicaid. As the Agency hub for analytics, reporting, and visualization, the Bureau of Medicaid Data Analytics examines critical aspects of Floridians’ health, health care services and costs, and is vital to managed care rate setting, health care economics, and health plan evaluation.

This position is responsible for the following duties:

• Contract Management
• Act as a liaison between the Agency and the actuarial vendor.
• Facilitate meetings and calls; keep track of notes and action items.
• Procure and follow up on items needed by the actuarial vendor from within and outside of MDA.
• Work with other units to ensure all issues impacting rate setting are conveyed to the actuarial vendor.
• Keep track of items owed to and from the vendor.
• Review deliverables for actuarial vendors, other vendors, another agency, or within AHCA for accuracy and consistency.
• Ensure all delivery requirements are met.
• Project Management
• Acts as point of contact for the unit to coordinate and facilitate regular communication on actuarial projects.
• Provides timely feedback/responses to requests from leadership.
• Assists the supervisor with facilitating meetings, coordinating or tracking requests, and developing project materials.
• Provides assistance in responding to internal inquiries and external requests related to rate setting and other actuarial services unit projects and tasks.
• Maintains detailed project logs tracking logs
• Coordinates with unit and Agency staff to ensure that projects stay on schedule and resource needs are met.
• Ensures that project deadlines are met and escalates tasks as needed.
• Rate Setting Activities
• Participates in rate setting as well as analyses, studies, or research projects.
• Performs data analysis, including summarizing, reviewing, verifying, and reconciling data as needed for rate setting and other actuarial unit…