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This position is for our Infectious Disease Epidemiologist. This position supports numerous departments within the health department including, but not limited to Infectious Disease, TB, and Refugee Health.
Job Role Summary
This full-time position is responsible for organizing and providing epidemiologic support to MCPHD and to collaborating organizations, including:
- Prioritizing projects and tasks to best address the departments' needs and fulfill the agency's mission.
- Identifying needs for data, communicating with external agencies in order to secure data, developing and implementing data collection protocols, managing datasets, and providing data quality assurance.
- Designing, conducting, and interpreting statistical analyses.
- Designing program evaluations, creating evaluation sections for grant proposals, and conducting and supervising program evaluations.
- Preparing and delivering reports and presentations on health issues and statistics for professional and lay audiences.
- Collaborating with MCPHD staff and other organizations to assure the success of programs and projects.
- Identifying needs for information to inform health-related decisions.
- Creating and supporting systems that make epidemiologic and other data-based information available.
Associated Job Duties
(Core Competency Domains in Parentheses)
- Epidemiology Support: 80%
- Conduct health surveillance for Marion County as needed.
- Maintain the data providers’ engagement by assuring that their participation in public health surveillance provides them value.
- Meet with program staff to understand their information needs and develop solutions to address those needs.
- Prepare and deliver reports, data visualizations, and presentations on health issues and statistics for professional and lay audiences.
- Establish data sharing agreements with external organizations.
- Evaluate and improve the quality of the data received, and improve our understanding and interpretation of the data.
- Attend and participate in national meetings and conferences as needed.
- Participate in public health emergency preparedness exercises and in the response to public health emergencies, as directed.
- Participate in a minimum of two H.O.P.E. events totaling a minimum of eight (8) hours annually.
- Other duties as assigned.
Other Projects: 20%
- Design and oversee program evaluations.
- Develop results summaries and reports.
- Present results to staff, partner agencies, and the public.
- Prepare the evaluation section of program grant applications.
Qualifications
Education/Licensure/Certifications/Experience:
- A Master’s Degree in Public Health or related discipline. Concentration in Epidemiology preferred.
- Experience with computerized data analysis and data management.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Experience analyzing health data, such as birth and death certificate data, preferred.
- Demonstrated basic set of programming (SAS and/or R) skills.
- This position requires the ability to engage in and/or out of state travel as needed, requiring a valid driver’s license.
- Candidate must be currently able to legally work in the United States.
- Position requires steady use of hands or fingers: 50%.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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