Inside Higher Ed · 1 week ago
Research Programmer/Analyst II
Inside Higher Ed is looking for a Research Programmer/Analyst II to support research programming and analytic activities for principal investigators at The Dartmouth Institute. The role involves working with large datasets to conduct economic analyses that inform policy-relevant research in healthcare.
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Responsibilities
Under the direction of the research project team, identifies appropriate data sources, extracts, merges, transforms, and manipulates dataset structure for optimum analytic structure following programming/analytic specifications
Using GIT ensures consistent source code documentation with logical comments, naming conventions, structure, and organization
Independently summarizes and delivers results of data linkage activities to the research team(s) in readable, presentation-ready reports, including inclusion/exclusion criteria applied to extracted/combined datasets, flowcharting datasets used to develop extracts, and other requested summaries
Under the direction of the research project team: Communicates proactively, obtaining agreement with the research team on any and all data/research method decisions before implementation and tracking consistently within technical documentation
May participate in preparing written grant proposals, research reports, scientific presentations, and published articles
Demonstrates professionalism and collegiality through actions, interactions, and communications with others appropriate to an environment that is welcoming to all
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field
3-5 years of experience in programming/analytics or equivalent combination of education and experience
Demonstrated experience writing algorithms and implementing statistical methods on structured data
Professional experience with SAS, R, and STATA statistical software
Experience with medical claims datasets
Bachelors or equivalent combination of education and experience
Preferred
Master's degree preferred
Two years of experience in a research setting
Two years of experience in a technical leadership or mentorship role
Experience working with medical claims data in CMS's Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC)
Experience with Python, Java, or similar
Knowledge of data mining and predictive analytics with machine learning
Company
Inside Higher Ed
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