DATA ANALYST PROGRAMMER II

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

  Occupational Summary

Duke-Margolis has an opening for a Data Analyst Programmer II to provide data management and analysis to Center projects on varying topics, with a focus on health care delivery and payment reform at the state and national level. The individual in this role may collaborate on projects spanning a broad range of topics, including health system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, uptake and implementation of value-based care models, and supporting states’ health care transformation efforts.

The person in this position will:

• Have access to a collection of research-ready health care data that supports a wide array of research studies.
• Work on externally-sponsored and internal priority research projects with a team of health policy and economics experts and will have opportunities to contribute to academic papers and policy papers.
• Conduct literature reviews to assist team members in developing analytical plans and to improve understanding of relevant policy and methodological issues at hand; and
• Provide time-limited, ad-hoc quantitative and qualitative support for other projects as assigned.

Successful candidates will demonstrate strong attention to detail; excellent communications skills; ability to manage multiple concurrent research analyses; and talent, motivation and commitment for working with complex data in a team-based environment in support of the Duke-Margolis research initiatives.

Duke-Margolis has offices in both Washington, DC and on Duke's main campus in Durham, NC. This position may be considered for a hybrid in-person/remote work classification. All Duke University remote workers outside of North Carolina must reside in approved states/districts .

Work Performed

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with staff, faculty, and sponsors on study objectives and protocols, analysis, and database planning.
• Supporting development and documentation of analytic plans and variable definitions, which requires familiarity with CMS data dictionaries and basic to intermediate statistical analysis methods.
• Developing statistical programs (e.g. using SAS and Stata) to accomplish the research objectives for projects and assisting with database construction and management.
• Merging and manipulating data from multiple sources including CMS public use files, Area Health Resource File, Census Data, and a variety of claims and other public use data.
• Constructing complex variables and documenting the programming techniques used to generate these variables.
• Creating descriptive results tables and simple statistics under the direction of senior research team members and, also with the direction of senior research team members, estimating statistical models.
• Developing data visualizations to support dissemination of results.

Applicants may be considered for the data analyst programmer role if they have the following education and experience:

• Bachelor's degree that included course work in mathematics or computer science or a computer-related field or equivalent coursework or technical training with two years of experience
• Work requires two years applications programming experience with some responsibility for systems design and supervision or project coordination.

OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (health policy, public policy, public administration, public health, health economics, etc.) with demonstrated quantitative analysis training is strongly preferred. Master’s degree may substitute for experience requirements.
• Strong Base SAS or Stata skills, with experience in statistical analysis procedures within SAS and/or Stata.  
• Experience with health or claims data is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability in SAS and/or Stata to manage large, complex, multi-level data, with experience in data cleaning and documentation in the context of large SAS or Stata datasets. Some files are very large with millions of records per file and require a high level of skill at data management and sophisticated programming techniques for efficient processing of the data and associated analyses.
• Demonstrated ability in IRB protocol and research design.
• Demonstrated ability to take responsibility for the planning, management, and analysis of complex data in a data-driven project.
• Ability to document analyses and write methods and results summaries.
• Intellectual curiosity, strong attention to detail, ability to work with teams, and commitment to scientific integrity and public service, and high-quality research.

Engagements are renewable annually upon funding availability from the Center.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work to be performed in this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and the position will be closed once filled.

Application Materials Required:

·        Cover letter

·        Curriculum Vitae

·        Three References (names and email addresses)

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas--an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Work requires a Bachelor's degree in mathematics or computer science or a computer-related field or equivalent coursework or technical training.

Work requires two years applications programming experience with some OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE responsibility for systems design and supervision or project coordination.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

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