Sr. Research Data Analyst

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions is a groundbreaking initiative in the field of public health advocacy and science. The Center combines the expertise of highly respected gun violence researchers with the skills of deeply experienced gun violence prevention advocates. We use a public health approach to conduct rigorous scientific research to identify a range of innovative solutions to gun violence. Because gun violence disproportionately impacts communities of color, we ground our work in equity and seek insights from those most impacted on appropriate solutions. Using the best available science, our Center works towards expanding evidence-based advocacy and policy-making efforts. This combination of expertise creates a unique opportunity to turn public health research into action that reduces deaths and injuries from gun violence.

The Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking a Sr. Research Data Analyst to provide project management, research, and analytic support. This position will report directly to the Director of Research Translation.

This is a full-time, hybrid (2 days a week in the office) post based in Baltimore.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain evolving analytic datasets suitable for primary, secondary, and multi-study comprehensive analyses.
• Merge data and create and recode variables to prepare data for analyses.
• Lead, with PI input, the study team to determine appropriate statistical methods and conduct analyses.
• Create codebooks and write technical memos that document data processing decisions and summarize the quality of data.
• Lead data management activities across multiple studies in collaboration with investigators, field management, data preparation/quality control lead, and data analysts.
• Prepare and maintain evolving analytic datasets suitable for primary, secondary, and multi-study comprehensive analyses.
• Create limited and de-identified datasets for sharing with other researchers
• Produce publication-quality tables and figures, and associated interpretations, adhering to reproducible research standards.
• Manage with the study team to produce scholarly products including but not limited to reports for scientific, lay, and policy audiences summarizing study findings and progress, scientific manuscripts for publication, and presentations and reports.

• Successfully collaborate with cross-disciplinary members of study teams.

• Ensure data integrity and compliance with security policies governed by HIPAA and the Johns Hopkins IRB.

• Demonstrate organization, curiosity, problem solving, resourcefulness, and flexibility.

Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrate organization, curiosity, problem solving, resourcefulness, and flexibility.
• Experience working on a diverse team.
• Experience working with different communication styles.
• An understanding of the concepts of institutional and structural racism and bias and their impact on underserved and underrepresented communities.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite required.
• Proficiency in Stata, SAS, R, or another statistical package required.
• Applications submitted without cover letters will not be accepted

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in related discipline. Typically require PhD.
• One-year related experience. Require highly specialized advanced knowledge, education and/or training in a specialized field of study to conduct research.
• Demonstrated ability on significant graduate project or additional doctoral education may substitute for experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate studies directly related to violence and injury prevention.
• Experience conducting academic research, and manuscripts.
• Experience with public health databases (eg. PubMed, WISQARS, WONDER, etc.)

Classified Title: Sr. Research Data Analyst 
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD  
Starting Salary Range: $55,200 – $96,600 Annually (Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Monday to Friday: 8:30 am – 5 pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/School of Public Health 
Department name: ​​​​​​​HPM-Center for Gun Violence 
Personnel area: School of Public Health