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Goldbelt Professional Services specializes in providing expert resources for Public Health missions including scientific, technical, and administrative support from junior staff to high-level subject matter experts. Research and data driven, Goldbelt Professional Services’ experts create solutions customized to the client’s needs.

Summary:

Goldbelt Professional Services is seeking an Epidemiologist/Data Manager that will support the study of and factors contributing to the spread of diseases and work to find data-based solutions to impede their transmission. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Participate in multidisciplinary workgroups, planning meetings, scientific discussions, and special projects.
• Perform additional duties as assigned in support of CDC public health surveillance, laboratory, epidemiology, and program operations.
• Develop and manage project plans, work breakdown structures, timelines, milestones, and project schedules to ensure successful execution of multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Monitor project performance, identify risks and resource constraints, recommend mitigation strategies, and communicate project status to leadership and stakeholders.
• Produce recurring project status reports, executive summaries, quarterly reports, and final project closeout reports documenting accomplishments, challenges, and recommendations.
• Support resource planning, workload prioritization, and coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
• Coordinate project deliverables and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support backlog development, prioritization, and refinement in collaboration with technical and scientific leads.
• Coach project teams on Agile principles and adapt Agile methodologies to support scientific and public health environments.
• Track sprint progress and maintain Agile boards, project dashboards, and backlog reports.
• Draft, review, revise, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), workflow documentation, communication protocols, and operational guidance.
• Coordinate technical review and stakeholder input during SOP development.
• Ensure documentation complies with CDC, HHS, federal, and organizational standards.
• Maintain document version control and centralized repositories.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and standardize business processes.

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

• Recommend modifications to surveillance systems based on independent evaluations to improve performance, usability, and data quality.
• Support federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies in wastewater surveillance, emerging infectious disease surveillance, and outbreak response activities.
• Manage wastewater surveillance systems, epidemiologic study databases, and other public health data systems, including data provisioning, receipt, transformation, validation, cleaning, migration, analysis, and long-term maintenance.
• Develop analysis plans and perform statistical and epidemiologic analyses of surveillance and study data using SAS, SQL, R, Python, PySpark, or other analytical tools.
• Analyze, interpret, and summarize epidemiologic findings for technical reports, scientific manuscripts, CDC websites, dashboards, presentations, leadership briefings, and peer-reviewed publications.
• Collaborate with CDC scientists, epidemiologists, laboratorians, informaticians, and data analysts to support surveillance activities and epidemiologic investigations.
• Ensure surveillance and epidemiologic study data quality by monitoring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness while coordinating with internal and external partners to resolve data issues.
• Manage surveillance systems and provide user experience feedback to improve system functionality and data quality.
• Support compliance with CDC data governance, security, privacy, sharing, and release requirements.
• Maintain proficiency with surveillance systems, data management platforms, analytical software, and emerging technologies through ongoing professional development

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree Public Health, Computer Science, Statistics, Project Management or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis and/epidemiology.
• Exceptional collaborative skills with great judgment, initiative, and communication skills.
• Very organized with strong attention to detail and great problem-solving skills.
• Adapts easily to change and redirection with ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in interpersonal exchanges.
• Demonstrated ability to work well independently, be solution-oriented, motivated, and committed to customer and company success.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to navigate shifting commitments from fast-paced report generation to far-reaching project deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in public health or health-related field.
• Previous experience in emergency preparedness is highly preferred.
• Previous experience working with CDC. 
• Previous experience in wastewater-based epidemiology and surveillance
• Demonstrated experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications

Pay and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually.

At Goldbelt, we value and reward our team's dedication and hard work. We provide a competitive base salary commensurate with your qualifications and experience. As an employee, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company matching, tax-deferred savings options, supplementary benefits, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

• Recommend modifications to surveillance systems based on independent evaluations to improve performance, usability, and data quality.
• Support federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies in wastewater surveillance, emerging infectious disease surveillance, and outbreak response activities.
• Manage wastewater surveillance systems, epidemiologic study databases, and other public health data systems, including data provisioning, receipt, transformation, validation, cleaning, migration, analysis, and long-term maintenance.
• Develop analysis plans and perform statistical and epidemiologic analyses of surveillance and study data using SAS, SQL, R, Python, PySpark, or other analytical tools.
• Analyze, interpret, and summarize epidemiologic findings for technical reports, scientific manuscripts, CDC websites, dashboards, presentations, leadership briefings, and peer-reviewed publications.
• Collaborate with CDC scientists, epidemiologists, laboratorians, informaticians, and data analysts to support surveillance activities and epidemiologic investigations.
• Ensure surveillance and epidemiologic study data quality by monitoring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness while coordinating with internal and external partners to resolve data issues.
• Manage surveillance systems and provide user experience feedback to improve system functionality and data quality.
• Support compliance with CDC data governance, security, privacy, sharing, and release requirements.
• Maintain proficiency with surveillance systems, data management platforms, analytical software, and emerging technologies through ongoing professional development

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree Public Health, Computer Science, Statistics, Project Management or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis and/epidemiology.
• Exceptional collaborative skills with great judgment, initiative, and communication skills.
• Very organized with strong attention to detail and great problem-solving skills.
• Adapts easily to change and redirection with ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in interpersonal exchanges.
• Demonstrated ability to work well independently, be solution-oriented, motivated, and committed to customer and company success.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to navigate shifting commitments from fast-paced report generation to far-reaching project deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in public health or health-related field.
• Previous experience in emergency preparedness is highly preferred.
• Previous experience working with CDC. 
• Previous experience in wastewater-based epidemiology and surveillance
• Demonstrated experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications

Pay and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually.

At Goldbelt, we value and reward our team's dedication and hard work. We provide a competitive base salary commensurate with your qualifications and experience. As an employee, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company matching, tax-deferred savings options, supplementary benefits, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.