The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking to improve the health of individuals, families, and populations by understanding the problems, issues, and alternatives in the design and delivery of health care services.
Requirements
- Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution.
- Experience in designing analytic research plans, conducting descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses, and conducting geospatial analyses.
- Proficient in coding and analysis software tools such as Python, SQL, Stata, R, or SAS.
- Experience managing teams, supervising other analysts’ and students’ analyses.
- Ability to quickly and easily learn new software, an ‘analytical mindset’ for identifying data issues and trends, solving problems, demonstrated data management and documentation experience, experience cleaning and merging data.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, and strong oral, written communication, and presentation skills.
- Five years of experience in designing analytic research plans, conducting descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses, and conducting geospatial analyses.
Responsibilities
- Perform data cleaning and statistical analysis using SAS, Stata, R, Python, and SQL.
- Perform descriptive, multivariate, and longitudinal data analysis using licensure data and large secondary population data sources.
- Perform geospatial analysis including translating practice addresses to maps and other data visualizations.
- Collaborate on the design of research studies including suggesting new methodologies and analyses.
- Contribute to writing of study deliverables including co-authoring journal articles.
- Provide quality assurance checks and audits of data reports; identify and propose solutions to data issues and changes.
- Collaborate with team and external organizations to troubleshoot dataset issues and clarify data sources.
Other
- Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution.
- May require terminal degree and licensure.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, and strong oral, written communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work Monday – Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm
- Full-time permanent position
