Research Data Analyst

The Department of International Health- Center for Humanitarian Health (CHH)is seeking a casual Research Data Analyst. The Center for Humanitarian Health (CHH) partners with UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and other institutions to generate evidence to improve humanitarian response policies and practices. At any given time, CHH has ongoing research and practice projects in a variety of humanitarian settings worldwide, including conflict and refugee settings, rapid onset natural disasters and longer-term food crises. CHH projects are diverse in nature and can include technical support to implementing organizations, implementation research, and effectiveness evaluations. Common themes across CHH projects are that they must be flexible and feasible to implement in complex and changing humanitarian settings, and they often require collaboration with a diverse range of actors to facilitate data collection. CHH projects offer an opportunity to generate and synthesize evidence across a wide range of humanitarian topics and settings.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Support internal project coordination and management needs including liaising with partners, conducting literature reviews to provide background and context, progress monitoring of activities and logistics management support for data collection, and other project support tasks as needed.
• Assist in development of data collection tools for quantitative and qualitative research. For quantitative data collection, support development and testing of e-data collection forms; develop training materials and support data collector training and pilot testing of data collection tools.
• Provide supportive supervision for data collection, including real-time monitoring of quantitative data collection and review of qualitative transcripts/summaries to ensure adequate quality and fidelity to the study protocol. Provide regular feedback (often daily) to data collection teams to ensure quality and consistency of data and adequacy of sampling.
• Conduct qualitative and/or quantitative analysis in coordination and with the support of CHH faculty. For quantitative analysis this will include data cleaning, descriptive statistics and statistical tests and regression models in Stata or R. Qualitative analysis will likely be thematic analysis and could involve the use of software platforms such as Maxqda, Dedoose or Nvivo. In some instances, spatial analysis and statistics opportunities may be available.
• Collaborate with CHH faculty and assist with the interpretation and integration of findings from multiple sources (e.g. qualitative and quantitative primary data, literature reviews). Provide support for the development of various dissemination products, including peer review journal articles, study reports, technical briefs and PowerPoint presentations.

• Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.
• Three years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Masters Degree in public health (MPH, MSPH, MAS, etc.) or a related field.
• At least 1-2 years of experience working on public health related projects.
• Proficiency in quantitative data analysis platforms (preferable Stata or R) and/or qualitative data analysis platforms such as Maxqda, Dedoose or Nvivo.
• Strong analytical and technical writing.
• Ability to work flexibly with diverse teams and across different cultural contexts.
• Specialized training on and/or prior experience work in humanitarian settings; 2) fluency in additional languages common in humanitarian settings; and 3) ability/ willingness to travel internationally to support CHH projects.

Classified Title: Research Data Analyst 
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MC  
Starting Salary Range: $23.07 - $40.43 HRLY ($60,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Casual / On Call 
Schedule: Casual/On Call; Approx. 15-20 hrs/wk 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: School of Public Health 
Department name: ​​​​​​​Health Systems  
Personnel area: School of Public Health