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State of Nebraska · 23 hours ago

Health Data Coordinator - Home Visiting Program

Lincoln, NE

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$27.31/hr - $27.31/hr

3+ years exp

The State of Nebraska is seeking a skilled Health Data Coordinator for the Nebraska Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. This role involves managing data submissions, ensuring data quality, and providing technical assistance to local implementing agencies while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Government Administration

Responsibilities

Submit data performance and demographic annually, and engagement data quarterly on the Home Visiting programs to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through the Electronic Handbook (EHB). Annual submission of barriers to and steps taken to improve data quality and responding to HRSA requests for more information or data validation

Create missing data Excel sheets for demographic data and performance data, including the element(s) that potentially caused the data to be missing. Verify what data is missing from the raw data when requested. Data should be pulled from Tableau

Create and verify Excel sheets for each site containing selected measure data, including target IDs and relevant details, while maintaining records of data quality issues, needs, and interventions

Email all local implementing agency (LIA) managers, coordinators, and supervisors their site-specific forms, along with missing data sheets and measure sheets, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement. Send individual emails and host virtual office hours for form review and technical assistance. Evaluate needs, support provided, and progress made

Attend monthly check-in calls with each site to answer questions, provide updates, and/or reminders

Receive updates from the University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research (KU CPPR) on data cleaning processes and challenges. Discuss concerns from LIAs that were unable to be addressed at DHHS, regarding missing data, logic, or other data specific topics. Maintain communication with KU CPPR throughout the year

Review data by site and funding source for accuracy and quality, then print PDFs for each and the entire network, organizing them in the Home Visiting shared drive. Document significant quarterly changes, improvements, declines, and track needs, challenges, and technical assistance related to data quality

Attend and contribute to meetings including quarterly monitoring call with HRSA, monthly DHHS Home Visiting Leadership team meetings, quarterly Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) State Team meetings, monthly Manager/Supervisor Open Mic calls, or other meetings as necessary

Attend bi-annual programmatic subrecipient monitoring site visits for each LIA, conduct file reviews and home visitor interviews along with the Home Visiting and Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Program Specialist. Specifically looking for important data elements and home visitor knowledge of data processes

Qualification

StatisticsData managementMicrosoft ExcelTableauPythonVerbal communicationWritten communication

Required

Master's degree in Statistics or related field and one year experience in statistics, data collection, data management or related area OR Bachelor's degree in Statistics or related field plus three years experience in any of the above or related area. Experience may be substituted for education on a year for year basis

Some travel is required for biannual site visits across the state which can require up to three overnight stays

Attendance at an annual national meeting in Washington, DC that can require up to three overnight stays

Microsoft Excel and Access Proficiency

Familiarity with coding languages including python

Familiarity with Tableau software

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly to groups with varied levels of background knowledge