[Jobs] Dta manager & analyst, Gladstone Institute in SF

[Leora Lawton]

POSITION AVAILABLE
DATA MANAGER AND ANALYST
GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, UCSF
http://www.gladstone.ucsf.edu/gladstone/site/givi/
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
POSTED: January 2011
CONTACT: J. Jeff McConnell jmcconnell at gladstone.ucsf.edu

Realize the rewards of conquering a new challenge. Use your skills with data
analysis to get involved in HIV prevention! The Gladstone Institute of Virology and
Immunology is seeking a Scientific Data Analyst to join our team working on Global
iPrEx, an international HIV prevention clinical trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis
(PrEP, using HIV drugs to prevent infection) among men who have sex with men. Time
magazine #1 Medical Breakthrough of 2010.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Develop and execute a data cleaning and management plan and standard operating
procedures (SOPs) for ~25,000 existing longitudinal social and behavioral
assessments and also for continuing research.
• To support on-going data collection activities including local web-hosting of
computer assisted self interviews (CASI) in 4 languages (English, Spanish,
Portuguese and Thai) which are administered at 11 l trial sites in
6 countries.
• Work with the in-house IT department and local CASI developer to troubleshoot
online questionnaire access and completion at sites.
• Generate data management reports, make relevant recommendations, and follow-up on
resolution of problems/issues.
• Fully document project datasets using existing codebook templates.
• Collaborate with the Principal Investigator, collaborating investigators, Research
Associates, Protocol Statistician and iPrEx Data Center on the development of
comprehensive and targeted data sets:
o Develop a master database (preferably Microsoft Access-based).
o Checks of variable names, labels, skip patterns, and appropriate formatting.
o Write programs for variable and value labels.
o Develop recodes, compute new variables, and create final data sets for analyses to
support working groups dedicated to diverse biological, medical, and behavioral sub
studies.
o Import and export datasets as required by study investigators into alternate
program formats (e.g., STATA, SAS, SPSS, and Excel).
• Perform descriptive and inferential analyses on behavioral and demographic data.
Prepare tables and descriptions of analyses and format results tables for
presentation in slides and manuscripts for publication.
• Participate in the write-up of data required for publication of study results.
• Assist with the interpretation of scientific findings and manuscript development.
• Participate in conference calls and team meetings and communicate with site
personnel on data analysis related issues.

Requirements
• Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree in Public Health, Behavioral Science, or
other Social Science degree.
• Enthusiasm for working with data related to the HIV prevention field.
• Experience and proficiency at data management and cleaning procedures, ability to
track and appropriately archive and document data in secure project folders
according to established SOPs (Microsoft Access preferred).
• Experience and proficiency with data manipulation including recoding, new variable
creation, data imports and merges, and dataset reshaping (STATA and/or SAS
preferred).
• Experience and proficiency with advanced statistical software required, preferably
STATA and SAS, SPSS also a plus.
• Experience performing analyses on behavioral data.
• Knowledge of CASI programming and experience using CASI software preferred (e.g.
CASIC Builder, NOVA, QDS).
• Experience with longitudinal data analysis preferred, especially for HIV studies.
• Experience in formatting results tables for presentation in slides and manuscripts
for publication (e.g. Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, MAC Keynote).
• Experience serving on a multidisciplinary team of senior and junior level
researchers.
• Proven ability to organize and manage multiple tasks.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish strongly preferred, Portuguese and/or Thai also a
plus.



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Dr. Leora Lawton
Executive Director, Berkeley Population Center
 & Lecturer, Sociology Dept.
112A Survey Research Center
Corner Channing & Bowditch
(510) 643-1270 (office)
(510) 928-7572 (cell)