S05337P

Scientific Data Specialist

VPR-Center Trop Emerg Glob Dis

The University of Georgia (UGA), a land-grant and sea-grant university with statewide commitments and responsibilities is the state’s oldest, most comprehensive, and most diversified institution of higher education (http://www.uga.edu/). UGA is currently ranked among the top 20 public universities in U.S. News & World Report. The University’s main campus is located in Athens, approximately 65 miles northeast of Atlanta, with extended campuses in Atlanta, Griffin, Gwinnett, and Tifton. UGA was founded in 1785 by the Georgia General Assembly as the first state-chartered University in the country. UGA employs approximately 1,800 full-time instructional faculty and more than 7,600 full-time staff. The University’s enrollment exceeds 36,000 students including over 27,500 undergraduates and over 8,500 graduate and professional students. Academic programs reside in 17 schools and colleges, as well as a medical partnership with Augusta University housed on the UGA Health Sciences Campus in Athens.

External

TRS or ORP

Employee

Benefits Eligible

Full Time

Monday-Friday, 8-5pm

Commensurate with Experience

10/28/2020

Yes

11/17/2020

Athens Area

The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, genetic information, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or protected veteran status. Persons needing accommodations or assistance with the accessibility of materials related to this search are encouraged to contact Central HR (hrweb@uga.edu).

IT Systems Support Professional

Exempt

1.0

Requires at least a baccalaureate degree in the field. Please contact your Human Resources office for an evaluation of education/experience in lieu of the required minimum qualifications.

Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or related field, with a minimum of 2-3 years of work experience, preferably involving infectious disease epidemiology, maternal and child health and/or biostatistics.

The ClinEpiDB.org resource is a large, multi-institutional project supporting the integration and exploration of diverse clinical and epidemiological datasets; this project is affiliated with the VEuPathDB.org Bioinformatics Resource Center, which is responsible for developing and providing scientific data-mining web sites used by tens of thousands of researchers to study infectious disease and public health impact worldwide.

As a Scientific Data Specialist, you will join a dynamic and growing team responsible for ensuring that global epidemiologic datasets are accessible to epidemiologists, laboratory researchers, field biologists, clinicians and policy-makers. The successful applicant will work collaboratively as part of a 40+ member team including epidemiologists, biologists, curators, data-loaders, ontologists, user-interface specialists, software developers and outreach staff to present our global user base with intuitive and informative web interfaces for accessing and interrogating large-scale datasets. This position will focus on processing data received from study investigators according to ClinEpiDB SOPs, including tracking data files received from the data providers, managing day-to-day communications to ensure accurate understanding and interpretation of the data sets, working with our ontology team to map variables to display hierarchies and ontology terms, configuring the study using ClinEpiDB presentation tools, and working with data providers to QC the resulting web sites. Effective communication skills are needed, including the ability to coordinate groups from diverse nationalities and cultural backgrounds. An understanding of the challenges posed by large-scale epidemiological data is highly desirable. This position may involve some domestic and international travel to provide support at workshops, webinars, and meetings, as well as participation in scientific writing and keeping up-to-date with the pertinent scientific literature. Ample opportunity for advancement.

Effective data management skills including file processing, an understanding of clean data principles and basic univariate measures is needed; experience with data analysis applica­tions (R, SAS, STATA) and relational databases is a plus.

This position will involve sitting/standing at a computer for the majority of the workday, and frequent Zoom meeting attendance is needed. This position may involve some domestic and international travel to provide support at workshops, webinars, and meetings.

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Be advised a credit check will be required for all positions with financial responsibilities. For additional information about the credit check criteria, visit the UGA Credit Background Check website.

Triage & process datasets according to established data processing pipelines.

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Interface with ontologists to develop web display hierarchies and establish consistent terminologies.

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Interpret epidemiological data and integrate methodologic details into the ClinEpiDB data resource.

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Perform quality assurance testing, including appropriate data representation and processing.

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Review scientific literature related to study data; assess and provide insight on new tools for data analyses and presentation; travel to workshops, webinars and meetings (travel will primarily be domestic, with possible international travel); additional duties as assigned.

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Interact with data providers to make certain data and representations are correct.

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