Data Analyst I/II

If interested, please go to the MGH Careers website at https://www.massgeneral.org/careers and use Job ID: RQ3309513

General Summary

The Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine is committed to providing the highest quality care to our patients and their families in a respectful, efficient, and safe environment; to communicate openly and directly; and to recognize and value the contributions of every individual. We are dedicated to advancing the diagnosis and treatment of disease through research and education. We strive for innovation, work as a team, and lead by example.
Our Division includes the research Center for Aging and Serious Illness (CASI), which is also associated with the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. The mission of the Center for Aging and Serious Illness (mghagingandseriousillness.org) is to better understand the needs of those living with serious illness and their caregivers, develop new interventions, improve current treatments, and explore new questions at the intersection of aging and serious illness. The research team is responsible for a growing number of clinical studies, observational studies, investigator-initiated primary care, hospital-based and community-based implementation studies. It supports the MGH Continuum Project (mghcontinuumproject.org) and Division program evaluation needs.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply via www.massgeneral.org/careers website using Job ID RQ3309513.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

The Data Analyst (I or II) reports to the CASI Research Administrative Manager, the CASI Center Director, and Division Leadership. Strong candidates for this role will have experience conducting observational data analyses, working with raw data from a variety of sources (e.g., administrative claims, electronic health record, etc.), and using large longitudinal datasets. The ideal candidate has strong analytic and methodological skills, excellent communication skills, and a personal mission to improve care for older adults or those living with serious illness.

The Data Analyst will work collaboratively with CASI and the Division to perform a variety of activities including assisting with program evaluation, statistical analysis, and reporting results for a variety of internal and external projects and constituents, database development, software programming, data management, dashboard creation.
• This detail-oriented, motivated, and independent individual will work with large national survey, electronic health record (EPIC), and administrative claims datasets.
• The Data Analyst will use SAS or other analytical software and other technical tools to clean data, build datasets, and run statistical analyses for multiple projects.
• They will be responsible for translating evaluation questions into analytic plans, constructing analytic datasets by extracting raw data, including medical claims data, from electronic data warehouses and other sources as necessary, producing appropriate data summaries, and conducting valid data comparisons and statistical tests.
• They will have the opportunity to evaluate health care delivery models, contribute to scientific discovery and scholarship and grow in knowledge and expertise.
• They will be encouraged to learn new methodological skills to advance science and program evaluation using state of the art approaches.

Skills/ Abilities/ Competencies Required

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Analysis required or Bachelor's Degree in Related Field of Study required.

Experience: Experience working with data, preferably healthcare data 2-3 years required.

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