The Humana Institute and the Department of Health Systems Population Health Sciences needs support in overseeing and coordinating Level 1 healthcare data for research purposes, ensuring compliance with data privacy standards, and managing data access and reporting infrastructure.
Requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of HIPAA, data governance, and regulatory frameworks for human subjects research.
- Familiarity with CITI Program, IRB processes, and data use agreements (DUAs).
- Proficiency with data management tools such as SAS, REDCap, SQL, and cloud-based secure storage environments.
- Experience with Level-1 or protected health information (PHI) datasets.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a point of contact for Level-1 data access, training, and reporting inquiries.
- Maintains oversight of access logs, user compliance, and renewal of required certifications (e.g., HIPAA, CITI).
- Securely collect, clean, organize, and prepare sensitive healthcare data for research projects.
- Maintain data integrity and confidentiality in all datasets, including those received from Humana, CMS, Texas DSHS, and local FQHCs.
- Collaborate with University and College IT teams to establish and maintain current, approved data environments and pipelines.
- Produce and distribute data outputs in appropriate formats (e.g., Power BI dashboards, CSV files, secure file transfer protocols).
- Maintain accurate metadata, data dictionaries, and documentation to ensure reproducibility and transparency.
Other
- Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline.
- Requires a minimum of three (3) years of directly job-related experience.
- Requires personnel be routinely reviewed to determine whether or not criminal history or continuous connections for the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the employee from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure.
- All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.
- The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.
