The Center for Infectious Diseases in India (CIDI) in the Division of Infectious Diseases is seeking a Research Data Analyst (RDA) to lead analytics for multiple projects within the Center. The RDA will be active in the data pre-processing stages as well as analysis and interpretation of results. The RDA will be involved in designing and developing analysis plans involving basic genomic analysis and epidemiological methods. The position will interact with other data analysts, Genomics experts, and clinicians. This position requires collaboration with clinical and scientific investigators in research/study design, data analysis plans, grant applications, and preparation of presentations and publications. The position will work independently and in collaboration with faculty to solve problems posed by the clinical and laboratory investigators along the study design, data generation, collection and management process, regulatory approvals, adherence to data storage, sharing, and dissemination rules, and to ensure successful progression of associated research projects. The successful candidate will be highly motivated and committed to a common mission, a team effort, and collaborations across academia.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
Consults with investigators to determine their needs with respect to analysis of data in collaboration with a member of the faculty.
Carries out appropriate methodologic procedures for statistical analysis of data; ranging from descriptive exploratory data analyses to causal inference.
Prepares written reports of the statistical analyses, including relevant statistical theory, references, methods, results, and conclusions.
Participates in regularly schedule meetings with study investigators and team.
Maintains appropriate systems for database associated management, including preparing codebooks, cleaning data, creating analytic data sets and performing quality assurance/quality control.
Plan data management including determining type, format of data and types of documentation, considering privacy, confidentiality and other ethical issues.
Clean data by coding missing data, fixing or deleting miscoded data, transforming variables into more useful formats, and annotating the data in proper way, use descriptive statistics to help characterize and summarize the data.
Collaborate with clinical and scientific investigators to propose ideas for new projects, design research, develop data plan, and prepare analyses with general direction from investigators.
Apply different technical approaches to visualize the data and prepare publication-quality tables and graphs based on analyses.
Identify potential data problems from analytic queries and bring them to the attention of the team.
Demonstrate understanding of high dimensional data collection processes and data sets and share knowledge with collaborators.
Collaborate closely with investigators, project managers, and other team leadership to ensure that research study or project results and conclusions are presented accurately and without bias.
Demonstrate progress in ability to multi-task and manage time spent working with individual faculty members and on specific projects.
Participates in regularly schedule meetings with study investigators and team. Prepares progress reports as needed. Maintain appropriate systems for data organization.
Assure data quality for documentation and dissemination of data. Conduct and track specific activities to accomplish project goals, including evaluating and reporting data and documenting analytic procedures.
Able to work collaboratively in a team environment with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation.
Other duties as assigned as research project progress and analysis needs evolve including coordination of study calls, coordination of the work of research and analysis teams across multiple sites / institutions, and ensuring data collection, analysis, and sharing plans adhere to appropriate regulatory frameworks and approvals.
Minimum Qualifications
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Masters Degree in related discipline.
Knowledge and practical experience with programming languages (e.g., Java, C or C ), a scripting language (e.g., Perl, Python), and a statistical environment (e.g. R).
Familiarity with longitudinal data analysis of epidemiological studies.
Comfort with coding and bioinformatics.
Comfort working in command-line environment, such as high performance computing environment (like the Rockfish cluster).
Must be detail-oriented, focused, creative, and independent.
Experience with computers and knowledge of SAS, Python, STATA, or R, as well as either Mac OS or Windows operating systems.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
Proficiency in both written and spoken English with excellent communication skills.
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine - East Baltimore Campus
Department name: SOM DOM Infectious Disease
Personnel area: School of Medicine
Total Rewards
The referenced base salary range represents the low and high end of Johns Hopkins University’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, market conditions, education/training and other qualifications. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.
Education and Experience Equivalency
Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines: JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.
Applicants Completing Studies
Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.
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School of Medicine - East Baltimore Campus
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Part-time
Job function
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
Industries
Higher Education
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