Overview
Skills
Job Details
Location & Work Arrangement
- City, State: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Requires reporting to the Indianapolis office at least monthly and attending ad hoc in-person staff meetings. Must be local to Indianapolis).
- Contract: This is a Contract position.
- Mode of Interview: Webcam only.
Key Duties and Technical Environment
The Data Analyst will serve as a subject matter expert for assigned data sources, driving data quality and reporting for grant deliverables and program areas.
1. Data Curation and Quality
- Data Wrangling: Responsible for transferring raw data, and performing wrangling, cleaning, and validating agency data sources with minimal guidance.
- Data Quality Checks: Conduct data quality checks to ensure the validity and cleanliness of datasets prior to their use in analysis and reporting.
- SQL Queries: Demonstrated experience with data queries and transformations (including cleansing and standardizing) with SQL.
2. Analysis and Reporting
- Programming: Demonstrated experience with SAS and either R or Python for data cleaning, running descriptive statistics, and full analyses.
- Analysis: Conduct general analysis, contribute to complex analysis, and serve as project lead for specific data analysis projects as assigned.
- Statistical Techniques: Interpret data from multiple sources using a variety of analytical techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation to data mining and complex statistical methodologies.
- Visualization: Experience using Tableau for data visualization is highly desired.
3. Public Health Expertise & Collaboration
- Epidemiology: Working knowledge of epidemiological methods, study design, and analysis, with an understanding of both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop novel ways of using and reporting out data.
- Technical Assistance: Provide technical assistance to program areas for the creation of reports and grant deliverables.
- Leadership: Oversee and review projects completed by associate analysts, as requested.
Required Qualifications Summary
| Skill Set Category | Key Technologies/Concepts | Minimum Experience |
| Data Analysis | Analyzing data and reporting relevant results in a professional non-academic setting. | 1 Year |
| Programming | Experience using SAS for data analysis. | 1 Year |
| Scripting | Experience using R or Python for data analysis and reporting. | 1 Year |
| Database | Experience using SQL to query a relational database (queries and transformations). | 1 Year |
| Domain Knowledge | Working knowledge of epidemiological methods, study design, and analysis (qualitative and quantitative data). | Required |
| Tools | Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). | 2 Years |
| Desired Plus | Experience using Tableau (visualization), Azure Portal, Microsoft DevOps. | Highly Desired (1 Year) |