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Research Scientist 6 (Biostatistics or Health Informatics)

People With Developmental Disabilities, Office for
Albany, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 3/5/2024

Ph.D. and seven years of professional research experience in public health, epidemiology, medicine, program evaluation, statistics, biostatistics, psychology, sociology, social science, economics, information science, or a related area.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong statistical and data management skills. Proficient in the use of data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI, with Tableau experience strongly preferred. Experience with SPSS, R and/or SQL, Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point. Experience extracting, merging, and linking health care datasets, including Medicaid data, for the application of data visualization and advanced statistical analysis. Knowledge of statistical methods and their application for predictive analytics. Excellent communication and organizational skills. The ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Duties Description
The Research Scientist 6 will serve as Deputy Director/Research Director. They will report to the Deputy Commissioner and be responsible for the following:

  • Acting under the broad supervision of the Deputy Commissioner, will oversee the Bureau of Population and Health and the Bureau of Data Analytics, Integration and Governance.
  • Ensuring Division operations and research agenda align with OPWDD Strategic Plan and Data Roadmap.
  • Developing curated data sets in partnership with the Bureaus of Population Health and Data Analytics, Integration, and Governance.
  • Serving as lead for Division Data Governance and serving as liaison with the Chief Information Officer for data- and IT-related issues.
  • Designing and executing creative and sophisticated methodologies to examine complex research questions.
  • Interpreting research findings and their implications for agency policies, programs, and practices as well as looking for broader applicability.
  • Providing oversight of new research and federal reporting initiatives, including translating initiative demand into relevant research questions, such as federal HCBS settings requirements.
  • Authoring research papers for submission to professional peer-reviewed journals
  • Providing, under the broad supervision of the Deputy Commissioner, day-to-day management of the Division, including mentoring, guiding, and supervising Bureau Directors and junior research staff, determining bureau staffing requirements and hiring decisions with the Bureau heads, and prioritizing, assigning, and monitoring work.
  • Attending and presenting at conferences with junior staff.
  • Serving, in conjunction with the Deputy Commissioner, as the agency's lead research/data representative at the agency, state and national level task forces, workgroups and meetings.
  • Coordinating research projects with researchers from other government agencies, universities, organizations, etc.
  • Overseeing and reviewing the Division's conceptualization and design of research and evaluation studies, including site and sample selection, measure selection, development of model fidelity assessment and other data collection tools and protocols.
  • Overseeing design of formulation and implementation of data collection, management, clean and analysis protocols for the Division.
  • Conducting and overseeing data analyses to inform and guide needed programmatic changes, identifying potential data system impacts and coordinating change requests with CIO and ITS partners, work plan development and performance monitoring.
  • Approving Bureau analytical plans.
  • Demonstrating the ability to synthesize data from various sources while employing a variety of statistical approaches requiring multivariate data analysis, including, but not limited to, linear, logistic regressions, and factor analysis, as well as longitudinal and time series analysis.
  • Demonstrating familiarity with Medicaid/claim data.
  • Demonstrating familiarity with statistical software such as SQL, R, SPSS, Tableau, etc.
Telecommuting will be discussed at interview.

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Additional Comments
  • The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and it's Division of Data Strategy and Management is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture, and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
  • Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
  • In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
  • OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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