The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington (UW) is seeking a Data Analyst to support key research projects by managing and modeling data related to environmental, occupational, and dietary risk factors. The goal is to provide timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice.
Requirements
- Proven experience and proficiency in using R, for data analysis tasks, including, but not limited to, data cleaning, transformation, visualization, and statistical evaluation.
- Demonstrated success in developing code in SQL, Stata, or other coding languages.
- Strong quantitative aptitude.
- Ability to learn new information quickly and apply analytic skills to better understand complex information in a systematic way.
- Dexterity working with complex databases and the ability to assess, transform, and utilize quantitative data using R.
- Ability to independently translate requests into actionable results through interactions with research databases, formulation of displays of results, and development of complex code to be applied to a variety of quantitative data.
- Use protocols to identify problems with datasets and routine computational processes, rectify issues, and systematize data for future analyses.
Responsibilities
- database management
- data quality management
- computational support to multidisciplinary research projects
- data extraction and formatting
- Create and document efficient, effective, and replicable methods for extracting data, developing code, organizing data sources, managing data quality, and explaining complex analytic processes.
- Transform and format datasets for use in ongoing analyses.
- Maintain, update, and carry out routine but complex computational processes and statistical modeling that are central to generating estimates of key indicators.
Other
- Temporary position
- This position is contingent on project funding availability.
- This position has 12 months of funding from hire.
- Weekend and evening work sometimes required.
- A COVER LETTER IS REQUIRED IN APPLYING FOR THIS POSITION.
