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Position Summary

Tracking California is a program of the Public Health Institute, in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health, and our mission is to mobilize data for public health action. We “track” or compile and analyze data about public health and the environment to protect California communities. Our core values include environmental justice and health equity – we work to ensure that all Californians, regardless of location, identity, or income, have the opportunity to live in healthy communities protected from environmental hazards. To achieve this goal, we help community groups, government agencies, researchers, and health advocates shine a spotlight on environmental hazards and other factors that may be impacting community health.

As part of our data team, the Research Associate IV will play a key role in supporting a variety of public health surveillance and research work within Tracking California’s projects including but not limited to: Community Air Monitoring, Water Quality Data Visualizations, and the Environmental Health Tracking Network. An ideal candidate would have values that align with our program’s scientific integrity and accessibility, transparency, sustainability, partnership and promoting respect, as well as a passion for social justice. We aim to build an inclusive program team that is reflective of the populations we support, and actively seek applications from individuals from communities that are marginalized and underrepresented.

This position is 75% FTE (30 hours per week) with the possibility of increasing to 100% FTE in the fall dependent on funding availability. This is a remote position.

Full salary range for this position: $66,843 to $96,905 per year. The typical hiring range for this position is from $66,843 (minimum) to $81,874 (midpoint), based on 100% FTE. The starting salary is determined based on the candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.

Employment Type: Part Time

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate actively and thoughtfully in multidisciplinary teams.
• Engage in professional development and other duties as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Assist in the management of research and surveillance data.
• Maintain documentation of processes and methodologies, validation of data and other content of work products prior to presentation or distribution.
• Compile and synthesize large amounts of data with strong attention to detail.
• Prepare literature reviews, research papers and manuscripts, posters and oral presentations, and data briefs.
• Collect, link, analyze, and translate multi-sourced quantitative data (descriptive and inferential statistics, trended analyses).
• Provide technical assistance to partners to support data use, decision-making, and capacity-building.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of research or data analysis experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in science or quantitative field, or substitute with four additional years of related experience.

Other Qualifications

• Experience working with large datasets such as air quality data, vital records, census, and hospital discharge data.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct data analysis and assist work with the interpretation of findings.
• Intermediate knowledge of and experience with SAS or other comparable statistical programming, languages and software.
• Experience using Statistical Analysis System (SAS) and/or R and/or Python to create, manage and analyze data.
• Understanding of public health and environmental health methods, practices, and terminology.
• Strong time management skills.
• A strong background in statistical analysis and epidemiologic study design.
• Ability to clearly summarize and communicate data and methods to collaborators and/ or audiences with varied professional backgrounds.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience documenting and maintaining data processing, code, codebooks, metadata, etc. For example, using version control tools such as git.
• Familiarity and experience with GIS, either using software programs, such as ArcGIS or QGIS, or spatial programming libraries (in R or Python).
• Experience and/or interest in health disparities and/or rare disease research.
• Previous work experience and expertise in public health or environmental health surveillance.
• Willingness to learn new data management, statistical programming, or data visualization software and/or methods as needed.
• MPH/Master’s degree is strongly preferred.
• Experience with R and/or SQL.
• Experience and/or interest in environmental health.

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT (FLSA) STATUS

This position is classified as exempt based on the job duties. However, based on the FTE, salary level of the employee, or federal/state/local laws, the employee may be classified as nonexempt.

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