POSITION SUMMARY
The incumbent is responsible for establishing, evaluating, and utilizing systems to enhance surveillance, tracking, and monitoring of the health status of the population served by the CDC Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities. Incumbent performs population health analytics to identify public health problems and trends. Incumbent is responsible for overall management and quality of public health and healthcare service data to ascertain changing patterns of health and illness related to CDC CCR grant activities. Incumbent performs data management and data cleaning and conducts statistical and epidemiological analyses related to disease outbreaks, health services and population health. Additionally, the incumbent helps prepare findings for dissemination. Incumbent works under the direction of Public Health Program Director. This position may work remotely. This is a CDC CHW CCR grant-funded position
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Imports, exports, and cleans data from various sources, including the electronic health record (EHR), patient tracking software, and other software systems to collect data. Extracts, analyzes, and compiles data from project sources to create actionable reports.
- Prepares and analyzes data for the purpose of population health assessment. Creates reports on population health data and trends, analyzing data using statistical software, GIS, etc. Statistically analyzes performance, outcomes, and health status across characteristics of people, place, facilities, and over time.
- Conducts and directs epidemiological investigations, descriptive and analytical studies relating to COVID-19 and other grant activities.
- Uses epidemiological training to provide accurate question formulation and data analysis to TCRHCC Epi Response Team, Senior Leadership, and Board of Directors in response to diverse inquiries and topics.
- Evaluates the processes and impacts of CDC CHW CCR grant activities across TCRHCC Service Area and Navajo Nation.
- Collaborates with grant, tribal, county, state, regional, and federal partners.
- Applies a wide range of quantitative and/or qualitative statistical methods to develop data collection tools for the review, evaluation, survey, and improvement of public health programs and healthcare services, including infectious disease testing, case investigation, and contact tracing.
- Establishes and maintains an integrated system of information gathering and reporting. Analyzes the data and assesses program needs in terms of strategies, services, and resources.
- Develops and organizes measures and measurement plans.
- Produces dashboards, reports, and presentations on data using visual analytics software.
- Develops and prepares periodic special and standard reports, using effective methods and technical writing for data presentation to diverse audiences. Fulfill data analysis requests from internal and external partners. Interfaces with non-technical users to assist with data interpretation and understanding of results.
- Reviews and appraises adequacy and validity of public health data, identifying problem areas. Provides guidance on data limitations. Develops quality assurance methods for data collection and analysis
- Wear designated personal protective equipment when required.
- Ensure proper PPE is worn at all times while on duty including but not limited to, face mask, gloves, gown, isolation gown, NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirator or higher, if available), and eye or face shield.
- Complete all donning and doffing tasks in a safe acceptable method and discard of used PPE accordingly. (see CDC website for most current updates)
- Complete task training for all routine cleaning and decontamination processes for all surfaces contaminated by a communicable disease to ensure a high level of patient, visitor, employee, and external customer satisfaction.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EFFORT
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical:
Incumbent must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time in a sedentary desk office space. Must have the ability to stand, walk, bend, drive, and climb occasionally as needed. Must be able to occasionally lift, push, and, pull up to 10 pounds. Must have the ability to use near vision, color vision, and hear normal speech during most of workday. Must be able to frequently see fine details. Incumbent most also have ability for far vision, depth perception, hearing overhead pages, and telephone use. Must be able to utilize hands in manipulation movement of simple grasping, firm grasping and use of keyboard. Incumbent may occasionally be exposed to infection diseases; and; dust, fumes, gases.
Mental:
Must be able to prioritize and use good judgment; must have critical thinking skills to problem solve and plan, identify and question issues and information in order to make appropriate assumptions, inferences, implications, and decisions; and must be able to communicate with staff, providers, senior leaders, and external entities. Incumbent must have ability to concentrate, handle a high degree of flexibility, and, work alone for prolonged periods of time. Must frequently be able to cope with high level of stress; make decisions under high pressure; handle multiple priorities in stressful situation. And on occasion demonstrate high degree of patience. Incumbent must occasionally accept a flexible schedule to meet unit needs.
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NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Master’s Degree in Public Health or Master’s Degree in Science with a biostatistics (or similar concentration) or healthcare data-related field.
Experience:
- Must have at least one (1) year of experience and/or training in epidemiology or public health data management and analysis using statistical software
Certification:
- Must have and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by the American Heart Association or obtain within six months of date of hire
Other Skills and Abilities:
A record of satisfactory performance in all prior and current employment as evidenced by positive employment references from previous and current employers. All employment references must address and indicate success in each one of the following areas:
- Skill with tools needed to perform all activities within scope of work, such as Microsoft Office products, database management, geographic information systems (GIS), statistical software (such as: R programming, PowerBI, SAS, or STATA, etc.) and visual analytics software.
- Knowledge of analytics and metrics including visual geographical display, exploratory data analysis, tabular analysis and displays, statistical process control, survey design and administration, survey analysis, for the purpose of evaluating public health performance
- Knowledge of and skill in applying a wide range of population health, analytical, statistical, and mathematical theories, principles, and practices
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative techniques for measuring and analyzing data
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
- Ability to set priorities and manage work within a designated time frame
- Positive working relationships with others
- Possession of high ethical standards and no history of complaints
- Reliable and dependable; reports to work as scheduled without excessive absences
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