Manager, Survey Project/Data Development

American Hospital Association•Chicago, IL

18h•$92,000 - $138,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is seeking a Manager for their Chicago office. This role is responsible for data projects and managing the survey and data collection process, including creating, compiling, organizing, analyzing, visualizing, and implementing healthcare surveys and data. Additional responsibilities include project oversight, client management, data exploration and analysis, and report preparation. This position collaborates with others within the Data Center and across the AHA. A key aspect of this role is ensuring that all data acquisition activities are performed effectively and cost-efficiently without compromising data quality or timeliness.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences or Health Administration.
6+ years of related experience.
4-6 years of experience performing research and analysis, data collection and processing, healthcare data and statistics, project development, and team management.
Knowledge of standard data management and documentation practices.
Advanced knowledge of statistical evaluation techniques and analytic methodologies.
A general knowledge and experience with healthcare data.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills, conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and decision making especially related to survey research and data collection.
Well-developed team management and analytical skills.
Experienced and effective team member and leader.
Excellent business and communication skills.
Demonstrated problem solving skills, conceptual thinking, strategic planning and decision-making.
Well-developed management and analytical skills.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in a quantitative field is preferred and may be considered as substitution for years of experience.

Responsibilities

Design and enforce standards, procedures, and quality control measures for conducting project analytics to ensure consistency among organizational components and compliance with stakeholder requirements.
Create, maintain, and improve key data sets, pipelines, and analytic products.
Identify, extract, clean, transform, validate, and/or model data across multiple domains.
Identify and execute opportunities for increases in team efficiencies and performance.
Employ AHA best practices with regard to data management.
Lead quality assurance.
Train and mentor survey analysts to follow appropriate procedures.
Champion Data Center capabilities, especially those of the Survey Center, as well as AHA data resources and products among AHA senior leaders.
Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, projects, and/or approaches.
Cultivate new business relationships and partnerships with cross-functional targeted business owners and senior leaders internal and external to the organization.
Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Participate in team decisions to engage vendors, outside data sources, and additional resources to expand product lines and data sources.
Actively participate in the overall strategic and business planning process of the team with emphasis on data acquisition strategy, data collection, and analysis.
Participate in research initiatives by providing expertise in survey development and data collection.
Manage core staff of survey analysts that are responsible for collecting and validating all data and information collected and acquired.
Provide staff training and development.
Coordinate work plan with technical development team to communicate needs for programming support.
Perform other duties as assigned.