Job Role Summary

This full-time position is responsible for organizing and providing epidemiologic support to MCPHD and to collaborating organizations, including:

• Prioritizing projects and tasks to best address the departments’ needs and fulfill the agency’s mission.
• Identifying needs for data, communicating with external agencies in order to secure data, developing and implementing data collection protocols, managing datasets, and providing data quality assurance.
• Designing, conducting, and interpreting statistical analyses.
• Designing program evaluations, creating evaluation sections for grant proposals, and conducting and supervising program evaluations.
• Preparing and delivering reports and presentations on health issues and statistics for professional and lay audiences.
• Collaborating with MCPHD staff and other organizations to assure the success of programs and projects.
• Identifying needs for information to inform health related decisions.
• Creating and supporting systems that make epidemiologic and other data-based information available.

Essential Duties

Epidemiology Support: 80%

• Conduct health surveillance for Marion County as needed. (6)
• Maintain the data providers’ engagement by assuring that their participation in public health surveillance provides them value.
• Meet with program staff to understand their information needs, and develop solutions to address those needs
• Prepare and deliver reports, data visualizations, and presentations on health issues and statistics for professional and lay audiences
• Establish data sharing agreements with external organizations.
• Evaluate and improve the quality of the data received, and improve our understanding and interpretation of the data.
• Attend and participate in national meetings and conferences as needed.
• Participate in public health emergency preparedness exercises and in the response to public health emergencies, as directed.
• Participate in a minimum of two H.O.P.E. events totaling a minimum of eight (8) hours annually.
• Other duties as assigned.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Other Projects: 20%
• Design and oversee program evaluations.
• Develop results summaries and reports.
• Present results to staff, partner agencies, and the public.
• Prepare the evaluation section of program grant applications.

Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree in Public Health or related discipline. Concentration in Epidemiology preferred.
• Experience with computerized data analysis and data management.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience analyzing health data, such as birth and death certificate data, preferred.
• Demonstrated basic set of programming (SAS and/or R) skills.

Contacts - Internal/External

• MCHD leadership and program staff
• Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) staff
• Community and hospital/health care groups
• Professionals in local and state public agencies
• National knowledge experts
• Interns and students

Working Enviornment

• This position requires the ability to engage in and/or out of state travel as needed, requiring a valid driver’s license
• Candidate must be currently able to legally work in the United States
• Position requires steady use of hands or fingers: 50%