Public Health Research Analyst

Department

About the Department

Job Summary

Responsibilities

• Maintains a close, collaborative working relationship with the PIs, the administrative team, and research staff within the Section/Project(s) to effectively manage research studies.

• Responsible for all data quality aspects of research studies.

• Performs quality assurance audits (QA) as needed, as well as QA summary reports for staff (internally) and stakeholders (externally) in a timely, accurate manner.

• Provides data quality and data collection recommendations (including recommending data collection tools) to staff to improve data integrity.

• Conducting data checks, data cleaning and variable creation to ensure data quality and integrity and to prepare data sets for analysis.

• Collaborating with external research and implementation partners to implement data collection protocols. 

• Oversees the general maintenance of our data collection tools (i.e., REDCap, etc.), as well as develop any new programs and/or projects within these systems.

• Developing and implementing protocols to streamline and standardize data collection, storage, and processing across studies and datasets. 

• Prepares analytic datasets for research recruitment, analyses, and data abstractions and preliminary descriptive statistics.

• Maintaining code library and documentation.

• Provides professional support to staff or faculty members in defining the project and applying principals of data science in manipulation, statistical applications, programming, analysis and modeling.

• Responsible for generating documentation for projects, e.g. procedural manuals, protocol worksheets, codebooks, questionnaires, progress reports, addendums, and/or adverse event reports.

• Facilitates the execution of data usage agreements (DUA) and/or data quality plans to share data to internal and external partners/institutions.

• Demonstrates proficiency in the use of clinical and research-related computer programs.

• Attends multidisciplinary conferences and workshops.

• Analyzes moderately complex data sets for the purpose of extracting and purposefully using applicable information.

• Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.

• Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens. Conducts literature reviews. Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

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Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in the social sciences, data science, public policy, public health, or similar field.  

Experience:

• Experience maintaining and documenting source code for reproducibility of research and service projects.

• Background in biostatistics within clinical or public health research settings.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Proficiency with one or more statistical analysis software packages, such as SAS, Stata, or R for data quality assurance and statistical analysis.

• Proficiency with Microsoft applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Excel, Access, and Word.

Preferred Competencies

• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.

• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities independently, and meet deadlines.

• Ability to adhere to protocols for maintaining confidentiality of protected health information, and work with sensitive information.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate data quality processes to faculty and staff audience.

• Flexibility, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to collaborate with colleagues from diverse academic and professional background.

Application Documents

• Resume (required)

• Cover Letter (required)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

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Benefits Eligible

The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.

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