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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Children’s Eating Behavior Laboratory in the Department of Nutritional Sciences housed within the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, is seeking a Research Data Management Specialist to advance its mission of research and education in the area of childhood eating behaviors. 

The Research Data Management Specialist will manage multiple datasets and corresponding documentation, visualize data, work closely with the research team to prepare custom datasets and work with the research team to evaluate and implement data collection platforms. This position is also responsible for ensuring the security and confidentiality of all data (with support from the College IT personnel), maintaining codebooks and data summary sheets, and preparing data for analysis upon request. The Data Management Specialist will also provide training to research staff and graduate students on data entry, manage data quality procedures, complete data verification and validation, as well as evaluate data management systems for quality improvement and efficiency. In addition, the data management specialist may conduct advanced statistical analyses of large longitudinal datasets, including, among others, using data derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, psychosocial surveys, cognitive tasks, Actigraphy, behaviorally coded data, and physiological assessments.

Ideal candidates should be skilled in data management/processing (e.g., automation, mining, wrangling, scraping, and warehousing) have familiarity with neuroimaging processing best practices and pipelines, and have excellent oral and written communication skills.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to interface and communicate with other analysts, managers/coordinators, and researchers to extract and transform data from a variety of sources. Experience using statistical methods is desired. Experience with different programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, R) and statistical software (e.g., R, MPLUS, SAS, SPSS) is essential. Experience using data management and recruitment software (e.g., REDCap, & Microsoft Access) is necessary.

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