Job Highlights

• Position Type: Grant Funded, Limited term opportunity
• Full Suite of Benefits Available, Exempt, Salary
• Starting Salary Range: $55,000 to $70,000, based on education and experience
• Duration of Assignment: 12 Months
• Location: Hybrid, Pheonix, Arizona-based preferred, United States-based required

Responsibilities

• Supports the planning, implementation, and completion of an original study or project or a phase of a program either with or without previously established procedures.
• Provides data, information and statistics which can be used for planning, descriptive analysis, interpretive analysis, and for reporting on fatal and nonfatal drownings.
• Develops methods of measuring and evaluating characteristics, traits, or programs for analysis to provide a better understanding of the burden of drowning in Arizona.
• Gathers, compiles, analyzes, and interprets qualitative and quantitative data.
• Analyzes reporting procedures and methods of compiling data in order to recommend methods of improving efficiency of collection of data on fatal and nonfatal drownings.
• Collaborates and participates in meetings with internal and external subject matter experts across departments or agencies, and other project partners.
• Performs other related work as required. Including but not limited to leading data abstraction trainings with first responders and other external partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or related field.
• At least three years of experience conducting analysis of qualitative and quantitative public health data with a Bachelor’s degree, or one year of relevant experience with a Master’s degree.
• Ability to plan, direct, and carry out difficult research and statistics projects and analyze and interpret complex data.
• Intermediate skills in statistical analysis software program SAS are required, Tableau and PowerBI preferred.
• Organizational skills demonstrating high attention to detail and the ability to organize multiple priorities.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Experience working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and engaging in strategic partnerships and strong interpersonal skills required for teamwork and interaction with people across CDC and with external partners.
• Strong understanding of drowning or other injury prevention epidemiology.
• Ability to work well both independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.