Afternoon Data Analyst R Programming Jobs in West Long Branch, NJ

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Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Data Analyst.
The Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine seeks a Data Analyst to support the City Health Dashboard and Congressional District Health Dashboard projects. The analyst will support two national interactive websites that track health and health-related metrics, the City Health Dashboard (www.cityhealthdashboard.com) and Congressional District Health Dashboard (www.congressionaldistricthealthdashboard.org). This will involve working with data at the federal, congressional district, county, city, census tract, and census block levels; aggregating geographic data; and rigorously calculating population health metrics that align with administrative boundaries. The analyst should have excellent R programming skills. We are especially seeking an analyst to support our geospatial analysis work.
We are a dynamic and diverse team that values collaboration, growth, and passion for public health. We strive for a supportive environment that encourages team members to maintain high standards for the quality of their work while also maintaining a balance with other life priorities.
Job Responsibilities:

• Retrieving, analyzing, and evaluating health metric data parsed to various geographic boundaries for use in project websites with attention to issues of sample size, bias, and timeliness
• Exploring new geospatial calculation methods, monitoring administrative boundary updates, and generating geographic boundaries for website release
• Documenting workflows and methodological challenges to generating health metric estimates across various geographies
• Regularly presenting analytic processes and results to other team members
• Producing data analysis for and providing feedback on data visualizations and descriptions in communications materials, blogs, journal articles, reports, and policy briefs, including drafting sections of such materials as needed
• Providing background research, code development, and workflow testing for the team's data infrastructure systems, and maintaining existing R functions and SQL databases
• Providing background research, obtaining and wrangling data, writing code and conducting metric validation as part of the team's new metric research process
• Other administrative, analytic, or research tasks as necessary

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a A masters degree in a related field (biostatistics, epidemiology, public health) or equivalent combination of education and experience
Skill and experience in the R statistical programming software
Familiarity with commonly used public health metrics
Familiarity with U.S. administrative geographies (counties, congressional districts, consolidated and incorporated places, census tracts, etc.)
Experience in R tidyverse packages, writing functions in R, SQL, and Git
Demonstrated interest in public health and health equity
Ability to perform basic statistical and descriptive analyses and interpret the results
Ability and interest in working respectfully, reliably, and collaboratively with other team
members on multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to be detail-oriented, organized, and take initiative on projects
This is a hybrid position. Candidates must be willing and able to commute to mid-town
Manhattan at least once per week
Preferred Qualifications:
2-3 years' work, internship, or project experience in an analytics role
Familiarity with major US federal datasets
Ability to read manuscripts and technical documents and assess the validity of methodological approaches
Experience and interest in working with various types of geospatial data and performing common spatial manipulations (intersects, centroids, reprojections, buffers, etc.)
An attitude of creative and collective problem solving and openness to new ideas
Ability to be detail-oriented, organized, and take initiative on projects
Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
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