Job Description
Location: NYS DOH AIDS Institute Bureau of Hepatitis Health Care and Epidemiology ESP Corning Tower Building Room 429 Albany NY 12237
Project / Program
ITS Contractor to maintain HEED
Contractor will receive and manage data extracts from ECLRS and CDESS from the Bureau of Surveillance and Data Systems and extracts from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The contractor will manage update and enhance the Hepatitis Elimination and Epidemiology Dataset (HEED) through data matching activities with other communicable and chronic disease programs across the New York State Department of Health; conduct regular data matches with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygienes hepatitis surveillance dataset; develop processes and procedures to maintain the dataset and its data quality; update HEED on regular basis with newly reported cases and laboratory results for persons living with hepatitis C; conduct analyses of HEED data to provide updated New York State Hepatitis C Elimination metrics for public-facing dashboard and support hepatitis C elimination efforts.
Day to Day Tasks
The contractor is responsible for performing complex data queries to extract cleanse collapse and sort data tables from multiple relational databases; using Dataflux to conduct complex matches of multiple datasets; combining datasets from multiple sources according to complex protocol; performing complex statistical analyses using SAS and other statistical and graphical software packages; providing aggregated data for display on public facing dashboard; and creating status reports to monitor progress.
Generate quality assurance reports; create data visualization to support program evaluation and continuous quality improvement. Other data activities include validating SAS programming code for data requests reports and analysis; evaluate the matching of STI HCV HIV registries and other disease specific registries; conduct analysis of match results; respond to requests for HEED data from the Committee for Matched Data Access (CMDA); serve as liaison to dashboard developer; and collaborate with other program staff.
Mandatory Qualifications
IT Specialist - Works in the field of Information Technology experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.
Senior - 60 - 84 months: Candidate is able to work independently without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.
Requested Qualifications
- 70 months of experience in the development of study design for research and evaluation with the ability to perform complex statistical analysis using SAS R Tableau and other statistical and graphical software packages.
- 60 months of experience in the development of SAS programming code for data requests reports and analysis in a health department setting after receiving a Bachelors degree
- Bachelors Degree in Statistics or Epidemiology or any related field of science
- 24 months of experience using Dataflux to match multiple datasets.
- 60 months of experience using SQL or SAS SQL to join aggregate and analyze data.
- 24 months using and creating SAS macro variables and programs.
- 24 months cleaning and analyzing data from communicable disease data systems and patient registries. Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority