Research Data Analyst II

UCSF • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

The Research Data Analyst provides research analytical, administrative, and program-coordination support for projects associated with Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine research under Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng. The role supports multiple projects and requires the ability to balance tasks across them. Research topics include the effects of financialization in the U.S. healthcare system on clinicians’ delivery of patient-centered serious-illness and end-of-life care; patients’ and surrogates’ experiences of system-level factors affecting end-of-life decisions; structural racism and serious-illness care among older Black adults; and system-level contributors to potentially non-beneficial, high-intensity life-sustaining treatment in older adults with and without dementia.

The analyst works with the research team on qualitative data collection and analysis, including coding, maintaining the Atlas.ti database, and conceptualizing and writing manuscripts. The position also contributes to mixed-methods and quantitative projects related to intervention development, identifies synergies across projects and within the Division of Hospital Medicine, and supports research dissemination. Familiarity with clinical medicine, clinical research, healthcare, social sciences, or qualitative research is considered ideal; experience with health equity work or human-centered design is preferred.

The Division of Hospital Medicine is described as a national leader in clinical care, education, research, and quality improvement. It has 190 faculty, 7 MSP Physicians, 9 fellows, and 30 staff, and draws on an additional cadre of 100 physicians, fellows, and residents for moonlighting services.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of research function.
• Working skills in statistical analysis, systems programming, database design, and data security measures.
• Working skills in analysis and consultation.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related area and one or more years of relevant experience, and/or equivalent experience or training.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a healthcare or social scientific field, such as an MPH, MS, or MA.
• Familiarity with clinical medicine, clinical research, healthcare, social sciences, or qualitative research.
• Familiarity or experience with health equity work and/or human-centered design.

Responsibilities

• Assist with conception, formulation, implementation, and dissemination of research projects.
• Conduct literature reviews.
• Prepare protocols for IRB applications.
• Assist with grant application preparation.
• Help disseminate research results through posters, conference presentations, and academic publications.
• Generate public-facing and policy materials where relevant.
• Support data collection for research projects, including participating in qualitative interviews and helping conduct participant observation in the hospital.
• Collect and analyze qualitative, mixed-methods, and quantitative data from multiple extramurally funded research projects.
• Collaborate with faculty investigators to develop qualitative coding schemes.
• Independently code data using qualitative data analysis software.
• Check coding accuracy with additional coders.
• Synthesize findings into dissemination materials.
• Manage the Atlas.ti database, contribute to manuscript conceptualization and writing, and support qualitative research data outputs.
• Help identify areas of synergy across research projects and the Division of Hospital Medicine.

What This Job Offers

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