Sr. Research Data Analyst

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

Anesthesiology

Job Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for the execution of major components of quantitative research projects in health policy, public health, or related disciplines, independently. Collects, compiles, validates, interprets, and analyzes data and trends using standard statistical practices and techniques.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Uses quantitative research methods skills to lead small to medium research projects. Contributes to the design, coordination and conduct of research projects.
• Uses advanced statistical and data programming skills to manage and analyze data (e.g., SAS, Stata,R). Responsible for designing large and/or complex datasets.
• Coordinates development of datasets, data cleaning, data validation, and data reporting. Summarizes and interprets complex analyses.
• Completes, submits, and tracks IRB applications, amendments, and other regulatory and data security documents.
• Drafts presentations and written documents and present information to a wide variety of audiences.
• Serves as resource to others and provides guidance to junior team members. Provides input and/or conducts performance conversations and evaluations.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Presentation Skills (Intermediate): The ability to prepare effective presentations in content and function, able to speak competently to the level of the audience.
• Peer Leadership (Novice): The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.
• Data Procurement (Advanced): Seeking, collecting, transforming, and ensuring quality of data.
• Health Policy Data Analysis (Advanced): 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 (Advanced): 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: Independently delivers on objectives with understanding of how they impact the results of own area/team and other related teams. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Utilizes multiple sources of data to analyze and resolve complex problems; may take a new perspective on existing solution. Breadth of Knowledge: Has advanced knowledge