Research Data Analyst - School Of Medicine

Description:

Job Summary:

The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Office of Research and Scholarship (ORS), Research Data Analyst for Research Support Services Team is responsible for making strategic data-related decisions by evaluating data processing, management, tracking and analysis as well as dissemination of their work within a research environment. This position reports to the ORS Senior Data Analyst for the Research Support Services Team.

The Research Data Analyst provides general oversight and work direction to the staff who are facilitating the data analysis and dissemination for the research and scholarly projects for students and faculty consisting of varying complexity in different areas of health-related research. Students and faculty bear primary responsibility for conducting their own research and scholarship, but this team provides appropriate guidance and staff support to enable successful work to be undertaken.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Designs and creates written reports and presentation materials describing project objectives, methods, data, and results.
• Specifies project quality assurance reviews and tests based on project characteristics and requirements. Provides guidance to other healthcare data analysts regarding the implementation of such QA reviews and tests.
• Coordinates the work of other project team members (librarian, statisticians, project managers, and other data analysts) to accomplish specified analytical project or task objectives.
• Exercises independent professional judgment regarding analysis assumptions and data quality. Identifies and resolves data quality issues, as required.
• Trains and coaches less-experienced healthcare data analysts on data retrieval techniques, programming practices, and statistical analysis and data visualization methods in the context of specific tasks.
• Independently determines and implements appropriate measurement and analytical methods to achieve specified analytical project or tasks objectives.
• Given project or task data requirements, determines the most efficient approach to data collection and validation and works independently to obtain needed data from KP HealthConnect information systems (e.g. Clarity).
• Develops detailed measurement and reporting specifications based on project characteristics and requirements provide by project leadership. Provides guidance to other healthcare data analysts regarding the implementation of such specifications.
• Implements specified quality assurance procedures to ensure accuracy of project data, results, written reports, and presentation materials.
• Determines the most informative approaches to summarizing data and communicating analytical results. Develops, as required, innovative or customized templates and formats.
• Applies analytic knowledge, skills and experience to perform project-related work, complete specific project tasks, and create project deliverables.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Minimum five (5) related years of work experience.

Education

• Masters degree.

License, Certification, Registration

• N/A

Additional Requirements:

• Outstanding written and verbal communication and effective interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in written and verbal communication of technical material.
• Skills in analytical methods including problem and model formulation, algorithm selection, and development of overall solution strategy.
• Creativity, critical thinking, and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Disciplinary training in advanced quantitative measurement methods (mathematics or statistics), ideally in the context of a quantitative social science or health services research.
• Demonstrated effectiveness working as a member of a technical project team on complex projects.
• General knowledge or work experience in one (1) or more of the following areas: disease management, survey design, health status measurement, case-mix or health risk adjustment methods, research methods, actuarial methods, cost- benefit or cost-effectiveness analysis.
• Considered functional expert.
• Experience with analysis of large administrative databases and computer-intensive statistical analysis (preferably using SAS), multivariate statistical methods, general research methodology.
• Ability to train and coach less-experienced team members on technical tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) related years of work experience (i.e. in an analytical environment, preferably in healthcare, education or research).
• Knowledge of healthcare industry, especially healthcare analytics preferred.
• Familiarity with Kaiser Permanente healthcare system preferred.