Research Data Analyst - School Of Medicine

Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: September 17, 2023

Job Description:

Job Summary: The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Office of Research and Scholarship (ORS), Research Data Analyst for Research Support Services Team is responsible for making strategic data-related decisions by evaluating data processing, management, tracking and analysis as well as dissemination of their work within a research environment. This position reports to the ORS Senior Data Analyst for the Research Support Services Team.The Research Data Analyst provides general oversight and work direction to the staff who are facilitating the data analysis and dissemination for the research and scholarly projects for students and faculty consisting of varying complexity in different areas of health-related research. Students and faculty bear primary responsibility for conducting their own research and scholarship, but this team provides appropriate guidance and staff support to enable successful work to be undertaken.Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently determines and implements appropriate measurement and analytical methods to achieve specified analytical project or tasks objectives.
• Exercises independent professional judgment regarding analysis assumptions and data quality. Identifies and resolves data quality issues, as required.
• Coordinates the work of other project team members (librarian, statisticians, project managers, and other data analysts) to accomplish specified analytical project or task objectives.
• Determines the most informative approaches to summarizing data and communicating analytical results. Develops, as required, innovative or customized templates and formats.
• Implements specified quality assurance procedures to ensure accuracy of project data, results, written reports, and presentation materials.
• Designs and creates written reports and presentation materials describing project objectives, methods, data, and results.
• Given project or task data requirements, determines the most efficient approach to data collection and validation and works independently to obtain needed data from KP HealthConnect information systems (e.g. Clarity).
• Trains and coaches less-experienced healthcare data analysts on data retrieval techniques, programming practices, and statistical analysis and data visualization methods in the context of specific tasks.
• Specifies project quality assurance reviews and tests based on project characteristics and requirements. Provides guidance to other healthcare data analysts regarding the implementation of such QA reviews and tests.
• Develops detailed measurement and reporting specifications based on project characteristics and requirements provide by project leadership. Provides guidance to other healthcare data analysts regarding the implementation of such specifications.
• Applies analytic knowledge, skills and experience to perform project-related work, complete specific project tasks, and create project deliverables.

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