Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care through medical education, research, and patient care. The Senior Research and Data Analyst develops, collects, maintains, analyzes, and reports data assets and reporting systems, while supporting data governance, process improvement, IT collaboration, and mentoring junior staff.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for data assets and systems related to the National GME Census in GME Track, the FACTS tables, the ERAS National Statistics tables, the Primary Care Loan Report, the Report on Residents, and additional data and reporting assets as assigned from other DOS teams and data teams from other clusters. As appropriate, mentor less senior colleagues on these data assets and systems
- Develop, collect, verify, maintain, and report data about and from members and constituents
- Develop, implement, and update programming and documentation for assigned data and reports, including programming and documentation about what institutions and individuals are eligible to receive the corresponding data collections and data reports
- Produce and maintain programming and databases for collecting data, importing data, managing data, checking data, engaging with members and constituents as required for data quality questions, linking data, analyzing data, reporting data, and distributing data, using AAMC IT approved tools such as SQL, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, VBA, Python, HTML, HighCharts, JavaScript, and Verint
- Mentor less senior colleagues to expand in their knowledge of this work
- Monitor the soundness, timeliness, impact, efficiency, and security of data collection and data reporting services. Monitoring occurs through, for example, performing data quality checks and investigating discrepancies, verifying, and resolving data issues
- Develop and/or maintain recurring data collections and administer data collections to members and constituents
- Write and maintain office manuals, runbooks, and similar materials that describe the procedures for running data collection and data reporting services; review materials from less senior staff in a collegial manner
- Collaborate with IT colleagues to support IT-maintained applications, data collections, and integration with other data and analytical offerings. Coach and assist junior staff for IT-related activities such as developing requirements and user acceptance testing
- Support and coach junior staff on more complex tasks and for addressing technical and process issues and improvement opportunities
- Engage with data collection participants, report recipients, and other users with content questions, reminders, extensions, quality control checks, or similar operational concerns
- Consult with colleagues and constituents (including, but not limited to, data respondents, report users, subject matter experts, researchers, and IT staff) on ways to enhance data collections, standard reports, research reports, external/internal ad hoc reports, and other analytical offerings. Support junior staff and unit supervisors to synthesize and prioritize the input from colleagues and constituents
- Contribute to IT initiatives related to infrastructure changes, data access and security, and system modernizations and updates, providing support for junior staff as well as alerting unit supervisors about risk and benefits
- Represent the unit, the cluster, and the AAMC data community in internal and external discussions around data collection, analytics, and reporting
- Maintain accurate financial and timekeeping records to support ongoing prioritization, enterprise portfolio management, and impact analyses as required for assigned data assets
- Apply knowledge and experience to solve problems and to identify root causes of onetime or recurring issues and recommend solutions
- Be a good steward of AAMC time and resources; escalate potential issues early enough to ensure that collaboration with other colleagues will result in on-time, high-quality, impactful, efficient, and secure data services
- Help with other data assets and their associated analytical offerings, as required
- Manage the tracking of internal and external data requests across the AAMC. This duty includes reviewing data requests, fulfilling data requests, and triaging data requests to other staff as appropriate
- Completing all required internal and external Data Asset Owner training
- Determining the appropriate level of internal and external access to data assets
- Enforcing appropriate data access, publication, and security policies and procedures, including but not limited to those of:
- Survey and Research Central (e.g., for guidance about Human Subjects Research Protection Program issues, IRB, and Data Collection/Research Registration and standards)
- OCOMM (e.g., for guidance about publishing standards and AAMC messaging on policy and advocacy)
- Legal (e.g., for guidance about data privacy and anti-trust considerations)
- IT (e.g., for guidance about information security and about approved technologies for data collection, management, analytics, and reporting)
- Respond to internal and external ad hoc requests about data and reports, as well as reviewing and processing external data requests
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 5-7 years of related work experience
- 3-5 years of experience managing a specialized program
- Experience with quantitative, qualitative, and logical reasoning; self-directed knowledge acquisition and application
- Programming, database design, data security, data standards, data processing, relational databases, data instrument construction, data visualization, and report writing
- Collaborative working environments
- Time management, resource management, quality control, and continuous quality improvement
- A master's degree or doctoral degree would be preferred, with course work in quantitative reasoning and qualitative reasoning. Courses of study might include topics such as computer programming, data analysis, data visualizations, economics, information systems, mathematics, psychometrics, research and evaluation, sociology, statistics, survey construction, survey sampling, and related topics
- Experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting in small to large organizations where data are critical to delivering on strategy, mission, and services to members and constituents
Benefits
- Hybrid Work – Primarily remote roles with the ability to work across the U.S.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness programs
- Fitness reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Personal days
- Sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- 403(b) retirement plan with generous employer contributions
- Financial planning resources
- Backup care for children, elders, and pets
- Resources for families with specialized needs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional learning and development opportunities
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