Data Analyst

NYU Langone Health • New York, NY

2h • $70,482 - $83,475 • Hybrid

About The Position

NYU Grossman School of Medicine is seeking a Data Analyst to support the City Health Dashboard and Congressional District Health Dashboard projects. These projects involve two national interactive websites that track health and health-related metrics. The analyst will work with data at various geographic levels (federal, congressional district, county, city, census tract, and census block), aggregate geographic data, and calculate population health metrics aligned with administrative boundaries. The role requires excellent R programming skills, with a particular emphasis on geospatial analysis. The team is dynamic, diverse, and values collaboration, growth, and passion for public health, striving for a supportive environment that balances high work standards with life priorities.

Requirements

• A masters degree in a related field (biostatistics, epidemiology, public health) or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Skill and experience in the R statistical programming software
• Familiarity with commonly used public health metrics
• Familiarity with U.S. administrative geographies (counties, congressional districts, consolidated and incorporated places, census tracts, etc.)
• Experience in R tidyverse packages, writing functions in R, SQL, and Git
• Demonstrated interest in public health and health equity
• Ability to perform basic statistical and descriptive analyses and interpret the results
• Ability and interest in working respectfully, reliably, and collaboratively with other team members on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to be detail-oriented, organized, and take initiative on projects

Nice To Haves

• 2-3 years' work, internship, or project experience in an analytics role
• Familiarity with major US federal datasets
• Ability to read manuscripts and technical documents and assess the validity of methodological approaches
• Experience and interest in working with various types of geospatial data and performing common spatial manipulations (intersects, centroids, reprojections, buffers, etc.)
• An attitude of creative and collective problem solving and openness to new ideas
• Ability to be detail-oriented, organized, and take initiative on projects

Responsibilities

• Retrieving, analyzing, and evaluating health metric data parsed to various geographic boundaries for use in project websites with attention to issues of sample size, bias, and timeliness
• Exploring new geospatial calculation methods, monitoring administrative boundary updates, and generating geographic boundaries for website release
• Documenting workflows and methodological challenges to generating health metric estimates across various geographies
• Regularly presenting analytic processes and results to other team members
• Producing data analysis for and providing feedback on data visualizations and descriptions in communications materials, blogs, journal articles, reports, and policy briefs, including drafting sections of such materials as needed
• Providing background research, code development, and workflow testing for the team's data infrastructure systems, and maintaining existing R functions and SQL databases
• Providing background research, obtaining and wrangling data, writing code and conducting metric validation as part of the team's new metric research process
• Other administrative, analytic, or research tasks as necessary

Benefits

• Financial security benefits
• Generous time-off program
• Employee resources groups for peer support
• Holistic employee wellness program (physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level