Senior Data Coordinator

Department: Med-DevSci
Salary/Grade: NEX/13

Job Summary:

Serves as resource to staff regarding data entry, maintenance, and results. Coordinates incoming data for accuracy and integrity, assists with complex data preparation and documentation, analyzes data, and creates reports. Ensures associated administrative tasks such as documentation, editing of code books and manuals, etc. are completed.

Target hiring range for this position will be between $23.50 - $25.50/hr. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Specific Responsibilities :

Strategic Planning

• Identifies and assesses customer data needs.
• Assists in identifying organizational area's data integration and related records solutions.
• Collaborates on a variety of data management projects including variable definitions, storage, etc.

Administration

• Ensures that all data is obtained and verified for subsequent analysis.
• Provides updates and summaries regarding statistics.
• Provides administrative support to organizational area.

Development

• Writes queries and reports and creates necessary analysis.
• Runs and distributes standard scheduled reports.
• Maintains and updates report inventory.

Performance

• Archives complex data structures to prepare final catalog of data sets.
• Performs advanced cleaning/formatting tasks of datasets.

Minimum Qualifications: (Education, experience, and any other certifications or clearances)

• A bachelor's diploma or equivalent is required.
• 4 years' data management and project management of similar experience is required.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook)
• Microsoft SharePoint
• critical thinking
• database design/ data structure
• Debugging
• decision making
• judgment
• problem solving
• Troubleshooting
• agile environment
• Code documentation
• collaboration and teamwork
• functional documentation
• organizational skills
• planning
• workflow development & documentation

Minimum Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities.)

• Experience in database setup/maintenance in data collection software packages (e.g., REDCap or Qualtrics)
• Experience in measure scoring and documentation of psychological assessments
• Experience in project management
• Experience in dataset preparation

Preferred Qualifications: (Education and experience)

• A bachelor's degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Public Health, and other applied social and behavioral sciences, or related fields
• One year research experience in applied social and behavioral sciences

Preferred Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities

• Knowledge of research methods and developmental psychology/child development
• Skills managing multiple partners in research environment
• Experience in preparing complex/longitudinal datasets

Benefits:
At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition discounts and more! Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/index.html to learn more.

Work-Life and Wellness:
Northwestern offers comprehensive programs and services to help you and your family navigate life's challenges and opportunities, and adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.
We support flexible work arrangements where possible and programs to help you locate and pay for quality, affordable childcare and senior/adult care. Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/work-life/index.html to learn more.

Professional Growth & Development:
Northwestern supports employee career development in all circumstances whether your workspace is on campus or at home. If you're interested in developing your professional potential or continuing your formal education, we offer a variety of tools and resources. Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/learning/index.html to learn more .

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