Hybrid: Pediatric Evidence & Policy Methodologist

American Academy of Pediatrics; Itasca (IL); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement savings plans

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) seeks a Clinical Evidence Methodologist (Grant Funded) to lead evidence reviews and translate findings into actionable recommendations for pediatric care. This senior role coordinates multi-disciplinary teams and ensures rigorous methods guide policy statements, clinical reports, and online content.

Responsibilities include guiding experts, conducting systematic reviews with GRADE, and presenting results to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in epidemiology, public health, health services research, quality and safety, health administration, nursing, social sciences, or related discipline required.
• PhD/DrPH preferred.
• At least four years' related experience in health services research and/or delivery of health care services, including applying project management principles, leading complex initiatives, and coordinating work across multiple partners.
• Experience applying the GRADE framework to assess the quality of clinical evidence and develop recommendations is preferred.
• Familiarity with Improvement Science and quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, evidence-based medicine, and the application of epidemiologic principles to the development of clinical recommendations is required.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, project management, interpersonal, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Guide AAP member subject matter experts throughout clinical recommendations development process for policy statements, clinical reports, technical reports, guidelines, and online publications.
• Manage systematic review related tasks including development and implementation of search strategies, protocols, extraction templates, analytic plans, and reports. Document search and review strategies for reproducibility. Apply frameworks such as GRADE to translation of evidence to recommendations.
• Communicate results of evidence analysis to appropriate groups and assist in incorporating the evidence with other important contextual factors in both verbal and written form.
• Lead project management and support for authors and staff to ensure systemic reviews are incorporated into development timelines and executed in accordance with overall project timelines.
• Plan evaluation criteria for policies, reports, and guidelines with a lens toward translation into AAP recommendations and related work products for clinicians and the public.
• Work with authors to appropriately appraise evidence including assessment of risk of bias.
• Conduct a narrative synthesis, and prepare sections of manuscripts, including incorporation of references as appropriate, based on the results of evidence review.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of experts to develop publications, clinical tools, resources, algorithms, and relevant content. Contribute to and critically review the methodological and analytical sections of policies and other deliverables.
• Provide technical advice and serve as an internal consultant on clinical methodological and analytic issues of current research related to pediatric topics to AAP staff and member groups.
• Develop a strategy and process to systematically review and update assigned AAP portfolios.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Analytical skills

Project management

Verbal/written communication

Interpersonal

Team collaboration

Medical terminology

Ability to learn AI tools

Education

Master's degree in epidemiology or related field

PhD/DrPH preferred

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel)

Reference library software

SmartSheet

Teams

SharePoint

AI tools familiarity

Job description

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) seeks a Clinical Evidence Methodologist (Grant Funded) to lead evidence reviews and translate findings into actionable recommendations for pediatric care. This senior role coordinates multi-disciplinary teams and ensures rigorous methods guide policy statements, clinical reports, and online content.

Responsibilities include guiding experts, conducting systematic reviews with GRADE, and presenting results to stakeholders.