Data Scientist - Team Participatory System Dynamics

PAVIR • Stanford, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR) is seeking a part-time Data Scientist to join the Team Participatory System Dynamics (PSD). This team aims to transform healthcare quality improvement decision-making within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The role involves building data analysis capabilities among healthcare professionals and facilitating data-driven decisions for diverse VHA stakeholders. The Data Scientist will coordinate data analyses, exploration, and visualization across a distributed, multidisciplinary team, establish data cleaning and coding processes, and lead statistical analyses for publications and grant submissions. This is a part-time position, 4 hours per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of related programming experience
• 3+ years of experience in information science, human-computer interaction, statistics, psychology, public health, computer science or related areas
• Experience consulting or operating at a high-level independence to produce and communicate data-driven insight to internal and external stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree or Ph.D. in information science, human-computer interaction, statistics, psychology, public health, computer science or related discipline (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Experience with health systems research, principles, methods, and public health or health economics with graduate-level training in research methods and statistics
• Experience working with clinical/healthcare datasets
• Experience completing data analysis for peer-reviewed manuscripts and federal grant applications
• Advanced data manipulation including experience with relational and complex databases; skill with other statistical software or programming languages is a strength, but is not required
• Advanced experience with data visualization and tools; skill with software including PowerBI, Tableau, etc. is a strength, but is not required
• Record of developing or participating in successful research implementation, or have the training, commensurate experience and interest in developing a successful research trajectory
• Effective collaborator and contributor to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams
• Excellent interpersonal skills, excellent verbal communication and written skills
• Demonstrated commitment to complete projects
• Demonstrated willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques
• Prior experience managing/leading a data project

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate the reliability of source information
• Develop structured databases using data compilation and data cleaning
• Create figures and tables that are accessible, communicate insights and contextualize data
• Design, develop and deploy routinized programs for sustainable and scalable data visualization and analyses based on input and consultation from team members and frontline VHA stakeholders
• Prepare and organize graphic, tabular and written/narrative summaries of exploratory analyses and statistical analyses for team meetings, reports for distribution to VHA leadership and frontline staff, grant applications, and scientific manuscripts
• Draft, proofread and/or edit research materials; recommendations to team members regarding the clarity, organization and layout
• Prepare presentations (poster and slide deck) for professional meetings
• Co-author manuscripts and publications with a reproducibility workflow (e.g., rMarkdown, Github, Open Science Framework)
• Provide leadership in designing and implementing data infrastructure for a scaling project
• Share data and code as appropriate via online repositories
• Develop goals and timelines with the Principal Investigator and the quantitative workgroup
• Collaborate with the Principal and co-investigators in design and implementation of research methods
• Coordinate effectively with programmers, engineers, project co-investigators and mentees for an effective data analytic pipeline
• Develop data and code management and documentation protocols to ensure high-quality, transparent and reproducible code for use by a variety of colleagues and VHA stakeholders, including the public
• Conduct analyses independently, yet solicit input and make adjustments based on input from team members; produce analyses for iterative improvement based on stakeholder feedback
• Review analyses and provide recommendations for analyses completed by other team members
• Participate in system design, decisions and code reviews
• Resolve any methodological issues or data interpretation issues
• Provide support and guidance for project work conducted by external consultants
• Develop research proposals
• Conduct literature reviews to provide citations and justification for data sources within relevant fields
• Develop, submit and update data protocols to VA Palo Alto, Stanford and other institutional review boards (IRBs)
• Conduct literature reviews to provide citations and justification for data sources
• Prepare and organize graphic, tabular and written/narrative summaries
• Draft, proofread and/or edit research materials
• Provide recommendations to team members regarding the clarity, organization and layout
• Other tasks as assigned

Benefits

• sick pay policies
• a 401(k) with a fully vested 6% company match and 3% profit share
• commuter benefits
• wellness program
• employee assistance program
• professional development training

What This Job Offers

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