Data Analyst

Position Details:

• Position Information

Recruitment/Posting Title
- Data Analyst

Job Category
- Staff & Executive - Information Technology

Department
- Inst-Hth,Hth Care Pol&Agng Res

Overview
- New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Posting Summary
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Data Analyst for the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research within the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS) within the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences(RBHS).

The primary purpose of the Data Analyst is to support various quantitative research and academic projects focused on substance use and mental health treatment need, use, and related outcomes across the life course. Projects include examining multi-level drivers of health and other exposures of interest, particularly exposure to policies and the criminal legal system.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Conduct data acquisition, processing, coding, cleaning, and linkages of multi-level longitudinal datasets
• Create figures, tables, slides, data management reports, and conference presentation materials
• Interpret findings derived from analyses of large datasets and perform sensitivity analyses using tools like R, GIS, SQL, and Stata
• Designs and implements data verification audits and coordinates with schools to resolve any issues. Assist in efforts to ensure data Quality Assurance (QA) processes are effectively implemented, maintaining the integrity and accuracy of research data
• Contribute to research manuscripts and grants, draft abstracts, methods, and results sections.
• Participates in the testing, migration and implementation of new software.

FLSA
- Exempt

Grade
- 26S

Salary Details

Minimum Salary
- 74332.000

Mid Range Salary
- 89311.000

Maximum Salary
- 106121.000

Offer InformationBenefits**

• Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees, based on position, which includes:
• Medical, prescription drug, and dental coverage
• Paid vacation, holidays, and various leave programs
• Competitive retirement benefits, including defined contribution plans and voluntary tax-deferred savings options
• Employee and dependent educational benefits
• Life insurance coverage
• Employee discounts programs-
  Position Status
• Full Time

Working Hours (per week)

Standard Hours
- 37.50

Daily Work Shift

Work ArrangementUnion Description**
- HPAE 5094

Payroll Designation
- PeopleSoft

Seniority Unit

Terms of Appointment
- Staff - 12 month

Position Pension Eligibility

• ABP
• Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Analysis or relevant field. Plus 3 years of full-time experience in Data Analysis, Computer Science, Statistics, Public Health, Biostatistics or relevant field.
• Equivalent experience, training, or education, in and 1 year of experience in the in relevant fields may be substituted for the Bachelor’s Degree requirement.

Certifications/Licenses

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven experience in data analysis, data quality assurance, and data visualization within public health or clinical research.
• Experience working with large data structures and liking data.
• Experience working with research data warehouses or similar healthcare data systems.
• Proficiency in analytical tools and programming languages such as R, SQL, or similar tools for data manipulation and analysis.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools to create im