Research Data Analyst Undefined

The Research Data Analyst position will support the client’s School of Medicine research mission, collaborating with research faculty within the Department of Health Systems Science (HSS) to build a new and growing research program. HSS faculty research is wide-ranging. Major interests include disease prevention and health promotion, community-partnered research, social determinants of health, health professions education, and healthcare practice transformation across the lifespan. The Research Data Analyst is responsible for the development and execution of statistical analysis plans, larger data sets and current and future new studies conducted by HSS faculty. These may include controlled trials and cohort studies, psychometric analyses, econometric designs, and meta-analyses. This position will guide study design and methodology, including appropriate statistical measure selection.

Contract Duration: 6-Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum three (3) years’ of related work experience.
• Knowledge in relevant scientific field.
• Knowledge of research techniques or methods.
• Analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Attention to details.
• Ability to create formal statistical analysis plans for research studies. Experience using R, Python, SAS, and/or STATA

Desired Skills & Experience

• Five (5) years’ of work experience in a related field
• Experience with client data systems and the ability to pull, manage, and analyze client data from multiple regions.
• Familiarity with client health care system
• Experience using SAS
• Experience with intramural and extramural research funding
• Master’s degree

What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities

• In partnership with Health Systems Science (HSS) research faculty, initiates, coordinates, and facilitates analytical projects to achieve study and programmatic objectives.
• Contributes to peer-reviewed manuscripts for publication in leading health journals.
• Designs and executes statistical analysis plans for studies that include the following approaches: prospective randomized controlled trials and cohort studies; epidemiological studies; secondary analysis of existing large national, state, and health system datasets; mixed methods analyses; psychometric analyses; econometric designs for causal inference; and meta-analysis, among others.
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements appropriate measures for specified analytical project objectives, such as health, educational, and behavioral outcomes; utilization and cost; quality of and access to care; equity and disparities.
• Supports development of grant proposals including study design, analysis of preliminary data, sample size calculations, etc.
• Advises on the development and testing of data collection tools and methods.
• Determines optimal approaches to summarizing data and communicating analytical results.
• Creates written reports and presentation materials describing project methods, data, and results.
• Determines the most efficient approach to data collection and validation.
• Works independently to obtain needed data from client information systems based on project or task data requirements
• Builds databases and extracts, loads, cleans, and manipulates data relevant to existing and future HSS projects.
• Implements specified quality assurance procedures to ensure accuracy of project data, results, written reports, and presentation materials.
• Collaborating with research faculty within the Department of Health Systems Science (HSS) to build a new and growing research program
• Responsible for the development and execution of statistical analysis plans, larger data sets and current and future new studies conducted by HSS faculty
• Guide study design and methodology, including appropriate statistical measure selection