Position Description

Data Analyst
Location Central Office, NY, US
Project Name Quality and Evaluation
Employment Status full-time
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Company Overview:

Health disparities among New Yorkers are large, persistent and increasing. Public Health Solutions (PHS) exists to change that trajectory and support New Yorkers and their families in achieving optimal health and building pathways to reach their potential. As the largest public health nonprofit serving New York City, we improve health outcomes and help communities thrive by providing services directly to low-income families, supporting community-based organizations through our long-standing public-private partnerships, and bridging the gap between healthcare and community services. We focus on a wide range of public health issues including food and nutrition, health insurance, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, tobacco control, and HIV/AIDS. Learn more about our work at  healthsolutions.org . 

Position Summary:

The Data Analyst’ role will be primarily to help bring data across various systems into streamlined reports and dashboards, and develop the capacity of our teams to handle the data.

Public Health Solutions (PHS) is seeking a full-time Data Analyst, who will report to the Director of Quality and Evaluation for the Division of Neighborhood Health.

Specifically the Data Analyst will:

·         Be a compelling data storyteller.

·         Be comfortable presenting to and engaging with various stakeholders (i.e., both written and verbal).

·        Be adept at helping others at varying levels of data literacy, to optimize data tracking methods and understand data to support decision-making and fulfill program needs and objectives.

·         Have experience developing and implementing data management and governance policies and programs.

·         Have experience building reports and/or dashboards in Microsoft Excel and/or Power BI.

·         Have experience with survey design and various data collection methods.

·         Be comfortable analyzing and interpreting results from datasets with varying structures and levels of cleanliness in Microsoft Excel, R, STATA, or Python.

·         Be comfortable supporting continuous quality improvement projects through planning, implementation, and monitoring.

·         Work with teams to ensure data quality of metrics and alignment with program and organizational needs and objectives.

·          Use and visualize data to proactively identify program and/or data quality issues, develop programmatic solutions, and implement those solutions.

·      Maintain (i.e., export, clean, analyze and update) monitoring reports from within PHS’ closed-loop referral system in Power BI for PHS’ Community Resource Networks across the Neighborhood Health and Healthcare Community Partnerships teams.

·         Support teams with data management, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization in order to carry out day-to-day monitoring and evaluation.

·         Support training and capacity building efforts across the Division of Neighborhood Health.

·        Support evaluation efforts across the Division of Neighborhood Health particularly with developing data analysis plans, conducting analysis and providing interpretation and recommendations.

·         Contextualize analysis with community-level data and/or literature.

·         Support development, administration, and data entry from surveys, as needed.

·         Write data summaries, including interpretation and/or recommendations.

·         Participate in team meetings.

·       Other duties as assigned by Director of Quality and Evaluation, and in support of the Neighborhood Health and Healthcare-Community Partnerships Teams.

Qualifications and Experience:

·         Bachelor’s degree; 2-5 years’ experience

·         Fluency with Microsoft Excel (specifically, VLOOKUP and PivotTables).

·         Familiarity with Power BI and ArcGIS.

·         Fluency conducting data analysis using Microsoft Excel, R, STATA, or Python.

·         Experience visualizing and communicating data so that it is easily understood by variety of stakeholders.

·         Experience telling stories with data, in written and/or oral communication.

·         Experience using data to identify issues and develop recommendations.

·         Experience effectively collaborating with people of different backgrounds.

·         Salary: $70,000.00- $70,000.00.

 

PHS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, and veterans.

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