Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DLH Corporation is dedicated to improving health and national security readiness solutions for federal programs. They are seeking a Public Health Programmer Analyst proficient in SAS or R to support the CDC in data management and analysis related to HIV prevention efforts.
Responsibilities
- Develop SAS programs for validating surveillance, clinical, or research study data
- Verify that all variables that should be included in the resulting dataset are present in the dataset and extraneous variables are excluded
- Identify data discrepancies and other inconsistencies in the resulting dataset
- Develop codebooks and data management plans
- Run duplicate procedures and comparison of results to ensure validity with applicable standards of the resulting final data sets, indicators, questionnaire coding, metadata set, SAS programming, and output files
- Conduct geospatial and molecular HIV analysis and interpret results using R
- Work collaboratively with other analysts to develop novel code in support of analyses
- Support dissemination and reporting of data to internal and external partners
- Work alongside federal partners to support funded jurisdictions or funded CBOs
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in public health, statistics, or related field
- 2 years of experience working with R or SAS
- Demonstrated ability to work with multiple data sources to monitor and assess data to ensure data quality, including accuracy and completeness
- Strong, demonstrated experience with SAS
- Familiarity with R coding
- Clear communication (written and verbal)
- Must be able to obtain a NAC clearance
- Experience with HIV surveillance or research data
- Prior experience with CDC, HHS, or other federal or state health agency
- Master's degree in public health, statistics, or related field
- Experience creating and managing dashboards using Power BI
- 2 years of experience in generating SAS-based reports using a variety of methods (e.g., PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE) and exporting those reports to other formats such as Microsoft Excel, PDF, and HTML
- Knowledge of HIV, molecular data, and public health surveillance systems
- Experience with large (>500,000 observations), document-based datasets
- Detail-oriented and able to create meticulous documentation of variables, datasets, and data attributes with a commitment to generating accurate data and products
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
- Proficient SAS or R coding experience (SAS MACROS, PROC SQL, FORMATS, etc.)
- Manipulating and cleaning data using a variety of SAS functions, formats/informats, and procedures
- Generating SAS-based reports using a variety of methods (e.g., PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE) and exporting those reports to other formats such as Microsoft Excel, PDF, and HTML
- Experience with behavioral or clinical surveillance data and/or primary or secondary research data
Benefits
- Personal Time Off (PTO)
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Supplemental life with AD&D
- Short and long-term disability
- Flexible spending accounts
- Parental leave
- Legal services
- 401(k) Retirement Plan, which includes a matching component
- Training to help drive success
- Access to our best-in-class e-learning suite for formal and informal learning
- Professional and technical certification preparation
- Education assistance at accredited institutions
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