Duke-Margolis Career Opportunities
Do you want to be part of health policy in action? Do you want to work on the leading health policy issues confronting cities, states, the nation, and the globe? Do you want to work for a historic, world renowned university that values its faculty, educators and students? How about a competitive salary with robust benefits? The Duke-Margolis team is a dynamic, high impact national leader in leveraging policy to ensure high quality, affordable care for all.
In our work, Duke-Margolis addresses critical health policy challenges and delivers practical, innovative, and evidence-based solutions to improve health and the value of health care. The interdisciplinary nature of Duke-Margolis brings together policy experts, researchers, health care professionals, and students from across Duke’s schools of medicine, nursing, law, public policy, business, and engineering, and fosters extensive relationships with and engagement of key stakeholders. These relationships span foundations, private sector organizations, state and federal governments, and global entities. The Institute fosters excellence, leadership, and scholarship at every level.
A complete list of open positions can be found below. Is today the day you take your first step toward joining the Duke-Margolis team? We are waiting for you…
Duke-Margolis is recruiting for the following positions:
Focus Area: Health Care Transformation
Location: Hybrid (Durham, NC, or Washington, DC)
This position leads the strategic design, management, and direction of a health policy program area within Duke-Margolis. The Research Director is responsible for oversight and direction of a portfolio of projects within this area that are managed either personally or by staff supervised by the individual in this role. The Research Director is a subject matter expert, and interacts regularly with an array of external project sponsors and collaborators including government agencies, academic centers, advocacy organizations, medical product manufacturers, and health care organizations. The individual collaborates with Duke-Margolis executive leadership and manages implementation of research and policy objectives to contribute to successful execution of the Institute’s strategic goals. The Research Director has significant responsibility for cultivation of funding opportunities and management of program area personnel.
Focus Area: Child and Family Health
Location: Hybrid (Durham, NC)
Duke-Margolis has an opening for an Assistant Research Director to advance child and family health policy as part of the Institute’s Health Care Transformation research team and to serve as the Managing Director for a newly funded prospective initiative focused on improving health and wellbeing among North Carolina’s perinatal-to-three population.
This position is responsible for developing major components of research and policy analysis for Duke-Margolis through management of a portfolio of projects within the maternal, child, and family health policy area. The Assistant Research Director provides substantial subject matter leadership in managing the execution of complex research and policy projects within the portfolio, including engagement with high-level government and private-sector entities, as well as community-based organizations.
Focus Area: Strategic Partnerships for Health Care Transformation
Location: Hybrid (Durham, NC, or Washington, DC)
This position serves as a senior-level resource for enhancing policy analysis and research to advance strategic partnerships for health care transformation, with an emphasis on effective and sustainable models for public-private collaboration. The overarching goal of this cross-cutting role is to enhance the impact of public-private and multistakeholder collaborations to generate evidence, trust, and infrastructure to accelerate effective health care reform. This position will also increase Duke-Margolis’s development of evidence-based, impactful policy recommendations for health care reform at the national and local level, with potential extensions to the global level.
The Area Lead will collaborate with research teams and faculty in conducting policy research and policy analysis in the position’s strategic focus areas, including staff management for key cross-cutting projects. These focus areas include a major emphasis on Medicare and Medicaid payment reform, with linkages to innovative primary care and specialty care models, supporting complex elderly populations, and creating more sustainable support for prevention-oriented health care that addresses social needs.
The Area Lead will facilitate and develop relationships with key external public and private partners, funders, and Duke collaborators to assure sustainability with opportunities for future growth. The Area Lead will provide strategic guidance and practical assistance for faculty and research teams to engage with relevant collaborators, partners, funders, and policy makers to increase the impact of their content areas. The Area Lead will oversee rapid synthesis of new developments, including activities to engage partners, thematic policy briefs, and other relevant work projects on new and current projects in existing content areas. Based on these initiatives, the Area Lead will identify and advise on strategic funding opportunities for stronger partnerships in the areas for the Institute’s portfolios.