The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Hiring for Data Assistant at Charlotte, NC Full Time

STMP15

Working Title:

Data Assistant

Division:

Academic Affairs

Department:

College of Health & Human Svc (Col)

Work Unit:

Public Health Sciences

Vacancy Open To:

All Candidates

Position Designation:

Non-Student Temporary

Employment Type:

Temporary – Part-time

Hours per week:

15-19

Pay Rate:

$20-21 per hour depending on experience

Minimum Experience/Education:

• Either 1) a Masters degree or 2) a graduate student in a Masters program or 3) a Bachelor’sdegree with comparable work experience, in data-related fields such as health informatics, public health or computing and informatics.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Command of Microsoft Office software (including thorough knowledge if Excel)
• Experience and capabilities in data management and datasets.
• Ability to work to timelines and to understand the importance of accurate and timely completion of tasks.
• The ability to work well with others in a collaborative way.
• Stable commitment to the work, including deadlines.

Departmental Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education::

• A working understanding of HIV or preventive health epidemiology and health data.
• Familiarity with intervention design, development, and evaluation
• Quantitative data experience (collecting and analyzing survey data).
• Familiarity with data storage and analysis systems such as STATA (preferred) or, SAS, SPSS, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The incumbent will work under the direction of the APHI Data Manager and a senior APHI project
leader, and will collaborate with Mecklenburg County Public Health (MCPH) partners and health care provider teams. The primary roles of the incumbent will be to participate in planning of the APHI project, to set-up and manage databases, data collection tools (e.g., electronic remote entry data systems, such as Qualtrics), to oversee data collection, to carry out data quality assessments, and to summarize data and datasets. The primary project will be the HIV PrEP Initiative Project (PIP), but may also participate in other projects. The daily activities will include contacting participating medical care site personnel, regular interaction with MCPH partners, review of data, data corrections and reporting through summary tables, graphs and brief text. Other activities will include training for the incumbent and the incumbent’s participation in training for project personnel, communication, information dissemination among research project team members. The incumbent may serve as a key liaison for the project(s) with participating site personnel, MCPH partners and the core members of the project team. Communication with participating partners is a key component of the job, and so the incumbent should be highly competent in his/her communication abilities.

The data will include partially de-identified, potentially sensitive medical information in limited datasets (LDS). It will need to be treated with confidentiality. Thus, the incumbent will need to be appropriately trained for managing this level of sensitive information, prior to beginning to work with the data.

The work environment will include on-campus and occasional off-campus activities, to make
connections and assist in training of PrEP Initiative site personnel. Data management activities will be carried out with a University-supplied computer, which has been formatted to work securely with files in the University protected data environment.

Learning Opportunities: The position will include the further development of the incumbent’s
competence in managing data, complex datasets and producing basic statistics relating to the data. The incumbent will have the opportunity to develop substantial experience with STATA and other software in the management of date. The incumbent will have the opportunity to learn about HIV and public health interventions to prevent infection. The incumbent will grow his/her experience in working on project teams.

Proposed Hire Date:

07/01/2023

Expected Length of Assignment:

07/01/2023-6/30/2024

Posting Open Date:

06/01/2023

Posting Close Date:

06/19/2023

Special Notes to Applicants:

Part-time temporary positions do not offer healthcare benefits, leave accrual (paid time off), or retirement entitlement (state service).
Full-time temporary positions do not offer leave accrual (paid time off), or retirement entitlement (state service) benefits.
However, full-time temporary employees are eligible to participate in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP).
Please use these links for more information:
https://www.shpnc.org/employee-benefits/high-deductible-health-plan
http://hr.uncc.edu/benefits/health-plan-options