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Data Manager / Analyst (full-time), SRBSR Services - Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown's Survey, Recruitment, and Biospecimen Collection Shared Resource (SRBSR) Services provides advice and consultation services on most of the components of study implementation. The SRBSR can assess the number of available cases, the feasibility of accrual, and biospecimen availability as part of planning new applications. SRBSR also consults investigators on survey design, measures for use in patient surveys, subject tracking and data management, and regulatory issues.
Job Overview
The Data Manager/Analyst – in a full-time role - provides data management and collaboration on the design and implementation of research projects for the Lombardi Comprehensive Care Center (LCCC) and the Georgetown University Medical Center.
They provide data management database programming in support of research projects by investigators for population sciences, including studies in health services research, genetic counseling and genetic testing studies, behavioral studies, clinical interventions, smoking cessation studies and observational studies including survey research. Additionally, they provide data management for faculty and postdoctoral researchers on the design and conduct of research projects relating to a wide diversity of research projects focusing on, but not limited to, cancer prevention and treatment.
Work Interactions
Reporting directly to the SRBSR Manager, the Data Manager closely interacts and works with Study PIs and their staffs, including statisticians, research assistants, and student interns. Further, they collaborate with researchers in Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in cancer research experiments and population studies; and interact with investigators and research staff on a daily basis to discuss issues in data collection, database programming, study tracking, data entry, report generation, and tabulations of preliminary statistics.
Responsibilities
- Works with multiple PIs to develop tailored database management solutions to the specific needs of individual research projects.
- Programs databases and data entry programs for specific research projects. Builds and maintains databases for each research project.
- Attends team meetings to discuss data management issues and holds individual meetings with the Project Director and project staff.
- Interacts with investigators, CPC staff, and external collaborators to understand data needs for research studies, and assists with data management plans for research projects and grants.
- Assists in conceptualizing, creating, and managing custom database applications for research studies (MS Access, REDCap).
- Specializes in creating, collecting, storing, and analyzing electronic data - via surveys and linkages of automated health records, administrative data, cancer registry data, and clinical data derived from medical chart reviews.
- Creates datasets from large databases using SAS and SPSS.
- Proficiently merges data from various sources, cleaning and preparing data for analyses, and performing preliminary data analyses using basic statistics (frequency distributions); and prepares technical data reports, including summary statistics (SAS, SPSS); and meticulously prepares documentation for data tracking and dataset preparation.
- Provides data management for CPC faculty - including identification of optimal data management methods; and works with PIs and senior statisticians to provide preliminary analyses for research projects using large, linked registry and claims data, or smaller datasets relating to cancer control areas.
- Prepares reports and preliminary basic analysis in support of scientific papers, posters, and grant proposals.
- Trains and supports study staff on report creation, data visualization, survey creation, and management for various studies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Biostatistics, Database Management, Data Analytics, or related field.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience in data management - preference for at least 2 years of experience with healthcare-focused research projects, particularly in database programming, data management, and programming relating to survey data and large, secondary datasets.
- Proficiency in MS Access or SQL, SAS, or SPSS.
- Advanced programming and statistical skills in SAS or SPSS.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cancer studies and with handling large datasets.
- Clinical Trial Management Systems: 1 year.
- Data Cleaning/Data Visualization: 1 year.
- SAS programming: 1 year.
- Microsoft Access Database: 1 year.
- Building Web-based Survey and Tracking Applications: 1 year.
Work Mode
Hybrid. Please note that work mode designations are regularly reviewed in order to meet the evolving needs of the University. Such review may necessitate a change to a position’s mode of work designation. Complete details about Georgetown University’s mode of work designations for staff positions can be found on the Department of Human Resources.
Salary
$55,000.00 to $60,000.00 /year
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Benefits
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