Assoc Research Data Analyst, Neonatology

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Organization:

Neonatology

Job Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for providing support for complex qualitative and quantitative research projects in health policy, public health, or related disciplines with some guidance. Activities may include project coordination, literature searches, data collection, data analysis, and report preparation. Provides general support to departmental programs, projects, and coordinates dissemination of information.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Supports research investigators and senior research staff.
• Supports collaboration between team members, both internal and external to the department.
• Uses statistical and data programming skills to manage and analyze data (e.g., SAS, Stata,R).
• Prepares and executes portions of research projects in the areas of health, economics, and social science. Uses external resources to supplement, organize, and contribute to tasks.
• Coordinates research project activities, timelines and events.
• Uses familiarity with federal and/or state healthcare measures and policy to conduct study-specific literature reviews and searches.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Data Procurement (Novice): Seeking, collecting, transforming, and ensuring quality of data.
• Health Policy Data Analysis (Novice): Identifies, validates, extracts, and formats data for statistical analysis. Able to create, modify, and run queries and produce reports. Familiar with data modeling and understands the relationships between data items.
• Data Management (Novice): Interpreting, analyzing and organizing reports and metrics.

Our Academic Enterprise is one of the nation’s longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University and integral role in the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt Health cultivates distinguished research and educational programs to advance a clinical enterprise that provides compassionate and personalized care and support for millions of patients and family members each year.

World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.

Aligning with Vanderbilt Health’s Strategic Directions, the Office of Research provides shared research resources, administrative expertise and professional guidance to enable the trans-disciplinary environment and highly collaborative culture that advances discovery and training for all the research faculty, trainees, students and staff. 

Core Accountabilities:

Organizational Impact: Delivers job responsibilities that impact own job area/team with some guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Uses existing procedures, research and analysis to solve standard job related problems that may require some judgement. Breadth of Knowledge: Requires subject matter knowledge within a professional area to meet job requirements. Team Interaction: Individually contributes to project/ work teams.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues priorities, working styles and develops relationships across a