Data Scientist - Center for Global Health Practice and Impact

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Requirements

The Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI) is a leader in advancing innovations to solve intractable global health challenges. Founded in 2019 by the Honorable Mark Dybul and Dr. Deus Bazira, CGHPI is currently directed by Dr. Bazira. Our founding and continuing impetus for our work is rooted in our commitment to enhance the sustainability of global health interventions. We are cognizant of the increasing disease burden; declining global financial resources for health; persistent inefficient vertical programming mechanisms; slow uptake of local innovations; widening gap between research, evidence, knowledge, and action, and; hence the need for new ideas, new transformative approaches and bold solutions that are people-centered, locally led and sustainable for more resilient health systems.

Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI) is currently recruiting for a Health Informatics and Strategic Information Systems Specialist (HISIS). The HISIS will lead the coordination and implementation of CGHPI’s global health programs data collection, data quality assurance, and strategic information systems management. CGHPI supports the implementation of domestic and global data management systems, including the DHIS2 platform and other platforms that allow for the integration data analysis by supporting aggregate and event and individual data collection of relevant components of program interventions. The inherent integrated data analysis abilities ensure that project staff can easily track outcome measures, be they technical, financial, programmatic, and administrative based on the program specific indicators. In addition, the Center operates an in-house data management system to support its public health and research agenda that allows for real time monitoring and reporting on program performance measurement. Additional duties include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain, customize, and manage the Center’s information system with a focus on data warehousing, quality assurance, and visualization.

• Support the implementation of quality standards in the design, development, configuration of reports, queries, and forms

• Conduct regular quality assurance/control assessments

• Provide technical support to programmatic Health Information Systems and link with other data systems across several countries

• Ensure overall user security and governance in program information systems

• Provide technical assistance to ensure that data management activities are conducted according to severalproject work-plans in different countries

• Ensure the center’s in-house data management systems meet project needs and when performance issues arise, identify solutions to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes.

• Ensure there is a Disaster Recovery Plan in place for emergency situations including that database servers are backed up to meet recovery plan objectives

• Develop training curriculum and materials to build capacity on data management for field staff, performing other related duties as assigned.

Work Interactions

The HISIS will report to the Data Science Lead, and will work with other members of the CGHPI team, including the Center Co-Director, Executive Director, Principal Investigators, Field Project Directors, Technical Project Managers, Program Quality Improvement and Data Use Portfolio Lead, and other Program, and Center Staff.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Masters in Health Informatics, Computer Science, or related field

• Minimum experience of 3 years working on large scale data projects

• Experience implementing and managing health information systems such as DHIS2 and eHARS

• Experience developing, piloting, and implementing data integration and reporting tools

• Experience in software development and testing

• Familiarity with PEPFAR data reporting requirements and systems (DATIM)

• Experience in conducting data quality/control assessment

• Experience in programming with java and database administration (MySQL or PostgreSQL), and knowledge of Linux operating system

• Proficient in database administration (MySQL or PostgreSQL) and at least one of the statistical software (e.g.: Stata, R, SAS, SPSS)

• Proficient use of data management and analysis tools

• Strong organizational, time management, computer, and communication skills, leadership, coaching, and team building skills to strengthen and cultivate relationship to help achieve organizational goal

• Strategic and analytical thinking skills with ability to solve problems and make decisions and able to manage multiple task and prioritize, ability to determine activities and project towards measurable goals and standard setting in collaboration with other team members

• Ability to work with other team members, flexibility, decisiveness, and personal integrity, as well as to travel domestic and internationally

Work Mode Designation 

This position has been designated as Hybrid. Please note that work mode designations are regularly reviewed in order to meet the evolving needs of the University. Such review may necessitate a change to a position’s mode of work designation. Complete details about Georgetown University’s mode of work designations for staff positions can be found on the Department of Human Resources website: https://hr.georgetown.edu/mode-of-work-designation.

Pay Range:

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Benefits:

Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition assistance, work-life balance benefits, employee discounts and an array of voluntary insurance options. You can learn more about benefits and eligibility on the Department of Human Resources website.