Research Associate II

Overview

* Perform data management, programming, and analysis of large healthcare databases (e.g., Medicare claims, insurance claims, and electronic health records)
* Reviews medical literature and participate in scientific writing (research papers and grant applications)
* Participates in scientific conferences and makes contributions to scientific journals
* Exercise discretion and independent judgment on significant research project matters by evaluating and comparing possible courses of action and making a decision or recommendation after considering the various possibilities
* The above covers the most significant responsibilities of the position. It does not, however, exclude other duties, which would be in conformity with the level of the position. Completes special projects as assigned.

Responsibilities

* Perform data management, programming, and analysis of large healthcare databases (e.g., Medicare claims, insurance claims, and electronic health records)
* Reviews medical literature and participate in scientific writing (research papers and grant applications)
* Participates in scientific conferences and makes contributions to scientific journals
* Exercise discretion and independent judgment on significant research project matters by evaluating and comparing possible courses of action and making a decision or recommendation after considering the various possibilities
* The above covers the most significant responsibilities of the position. It does not, however, exclude other duties, which would be in conformity with the level of the position. Completes special projects as assigned.

Required Qualifications

* B.S. degree in a scientific discipline, 5 - 8 years of related experience or M.S. degree in a scientific discipline relevant to data science, 2 - 5 years of related experience
* Prior experience in data management, programming, and analysis of large healthcare databases (e.g., Medicare claims, insurance claims, and electronic health records)
* Must have programming skills in SAS, R, Stata, or similar programming language
* Must exhibit respect for participant confidentiality, excellent communication skills, careful attention to details, good organizational skills and ability to follow directions. Must demonstrate flexibility in regards to project demands, ie. Adapting to changes in schedules, coverage gaps, new technologies and unanticipated needs.
* Must be professional, proactive, collaborative, conscientious and results-oriented individual. Must have an optimistic and positive demeanor, excellent oral and written communication skills, good intuition and able to adapt to changing priorities and display good, sound judgment with a sense of humor.
* Superb organizational skills. Must have solid analytical skills. Must be creative and proactive yet disciplined, discriminating and able to streamline work volume in order to maintain bottom line efforts in midst of multi-tasking and daily re-prioritizing. Must have ability to innovate, think strategically and conceptually, manage multiple projects simultaneously and handle even difficult situations.
* Must be motivated to learn and flexible to change.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred qualifications needed to successfully funtion in this role. This should be no more than 5 bullet points.