SPATIAL DATA ANALYST
- Employer
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Jun 21, 2021
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- Faculty Positions, Science, Technology & Mathematics, Statistics, Administrative, Academic Affairs, Institutional Research & Planning, Business & Administrative Affairs, Business & Administrative Support, Computer Services & Information Technology, Student Affairs, Health Services
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Job no: 236344-AS
Work type: Staff Full or Part Time, Staff-Full Time, Staff-Part Time
Department: SMPH/POP HEALTH INST/PHI
Location: Madison
Categories: Grant, Research, Contract Management, Health Care, Medical, Social Services, Research, Scientific
Position Summary:
The Spatial Data Analyst will serve as a technical expert within the program, informing the selection, management, manipulation, analysis, and communication of spatial data and its relation to health. Working collaboratively with other members of the Data & Analytics team, this position will contribute significantly to the annual production of the County Health Rankings and continued development of data content in both static and interactive presentation. Our team values collaboration, leadership, innovation, growth, and each other.
The School of Medicine and Public Health has a deep and profound commitment to diversity both as an end in itself and as a valuable means for eliminating health disparities. As such, we strongly encourage application from candidates who foster and promote the values of diversity and inclusion.
Position Duties:
List of Duties
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion
Degree and Area of Specialization:
Master's degree required. Doctoral degree or relevant certifications preferred. Applications from statistics, geography, urban planning, economics, policy, social or health sciences fields are encouraged.
Minimum Years and Type of Relevant Work Experience:
Minimum of 2 years of relevant post-Bachelor's, data science and spatial analytics work experience required.
Highly preferred:
-Expertise in the use of statistical and spatial analysis software (e.g. SAS or R, and ArcGIS). Skilled in technical design, implementation, and interpretation of spatial analyses.
-Ability to identify data needs, and experience curating data from a variety of sources, assessing limitations and data quality, to manage, aggregate, and document for a particular use.
-Ability to visualize population data with excellence, creativity, and thoughtfulness to support clear, audience-appropriate messaging toward equity in population outcomes (including tools such as mapping and data interactives to tell stories and communicate trends and context).
-Awareness of, and desire to increase understanding of societal, structural, and historical influences on individual and community abilities to achieve optimal health; and strategies to achieve equity.
-Dedication to continued learning of best practices for data visualizations, to generate data products (including maps) suitable for publication or web communications, remaining respectful of the populations represented.
-Demonstrated project management and product development, including attention to detail with respect to data accuracy and limitations.
-Desire to operate professionally and collegially within a creative, fast-paced environment that emphasizes teamwork, integrity, and excellence.
Additional Information:
Additional Preferred Strengths:
-Strength in critical thinking to identify, analyze, and visualize health inequities and their connections to place and social structures.
-Experience manipulating and analyzing a variety of datasets including, national mortality, community health, health indicators and outcomes, as well as non-traditional data sources such as (grassroots reporting/social media mining).
-Ability to establish and communicate data management best practices to maintain data quality and support efficient and sustainable analytic work individually and across team members.
-Experience collaborating on data products, including work in partnership with communication experts to optimize visualizations.
-Familiarity with applied population health and epidemiological research methods.
-Experience partnering with and centering the voices of marginalized populations to grow community power through data presentation and communications.
Department(s):
A538400-MEDICAL SCHOOL/POP HEALTH INST/PHI
Work Type:
Full or Part Time: 75% - 100%
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:
Minimum $50,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Instructions to Applicants:
To begin the application process please click on the '' button. You will be asked to upload a current resume/CV and a cover letter briefly describing your qualifications relevant to the
position. You will also be asked to provide contact information for three (3) references, including at least one current or former supervisor.
Contact:
Nick Harding
neharding@wisc.edu
608-265-3735
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. )
Official Title:
ASSOC RESEARCHER(E05FN) or ASST RESEARCHER(E05LN)
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
236344-AS
The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is engaged in a Title and Total Compensation (TTC) Project to redesign job titles and compensation structures. As a result of the TTC project, official job titles on current job postings may change. Job duties and responsibilities will remain the same. For more information please visit: https://hr.wisc.edu/title-and-total-compensation-study/ .
Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department .
Applications Open: Jun 21 2021 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: Jul 16 2021 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time
Work type: Staff Full or Part Time, Staff-Full Time, Staff-Part Time
Department: SMPH/POP HEALTH INST/PHI
Location: Madison
Categories: Grant, Research, Contract Management, Health Care, Medical, Social Services, Research, Scientific
Position Summary:
The Spatial Data Analyst will serve as a technical expert within the program, informing the selection, management, manipulation, analysis, and communication of spatial data and its relation to health. Working collaboratively with other members of the Data & Analytics team, this position will contribute significantly to the annual production of the County Health Rankings and continued development of data content in both static and interactive presentation. Our team values collaboration, leadership, innovation, growth, and each other.
The School of Medicine and Public Health has a deep and profound commitment to diversity both as an end in itself and as a valuable means for eliminating health disparities. As such, we strongly encourage application from candidates who foster and promote the values of diversity and inclusion.
Position Duties:
List of Duties
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion
Degree and Area of Specialization:
Master's degree required. Doctoral degree or relevant certifications preferred. Applications from statistics, geography, urban planning, economics, policy, social or health sciences fields are encouraged.
Minimum Years and Type of Relevant Work Experience:
Minimum of 2 years of relevant post-Bachelor's, data science and spatial analytics work experience required.
Highly preferred:
-Expertise in the use of statistical and spatial analysis software (e.g. SAS or R, and ArcGIS). Skilled in technical design, implementation, and interpretation of spatial analyses.
-Ability to identify data needs, and experience curating data from a variety of sources, assessing limitations and data quality, to manage, aggregate, and document for a particular use.
-Ability to visualize population data with excellence, creativity, and thoughtfulness to support clear, audience-appropriate messaging toward equity in population outcomes (including tools such as mapping and data interactives to tell stories and communicate trends and context).
-Awareness of, and desire to increase understanding of societal, structural, and historical influences on individual and community abilities to achieve optimal health; and strategies to achieve equity.
-Dedication to continued learning of best practices for data visualizations, to generate data products (including maps) suitable for publication or web communications, remaining respectful of the populations represented.
-Demonstrated project management and product development, including attention to detail with respect to data accuracy and limitations.
-Desire to operate professionally and collegially within a creative, fast-paced environment that emphasizes teamwork, integrity, and excellence.
Additional Information:
Additional Preferred Strengths:
-Strength in critical thinking to identify, analyze, and visualize health inequities and their connections to place and social structures.
-Experience manipulating and analyzing a variety of datasets including, national mortality, community health, health indicators and outcomes, as well as non-traditional data sources such as (grassroots reporting/social media mining).
-Ability to establish and communicate data management best practices to maintain data quality and support efficient and sustainable analytic work individually and across team members.
-Experience collaborating on data products, including work in partnership with communication experts to optimize visualizations.
-Familiarity with applied population health and epidemiological research methods.
-Experience partnering with and centering the voices of marginalized populations to grow community power through data presentation and communications.
Department(s):
A538400-MEDICAL SCHOOL/POP HEALTH INST/PHI
Work Type:
Full or Part Time: 75% - 100%
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:
Minimum $50,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Instructions to Applicants:
To begin the application process please click on the '' button. You will be asked to upload a current resume/CV and a cover letter briefly describing your qualifications relevant to the
position. You will also be asked to provide contact information for three (3) references, including at least one current or former supervisor.
Contact:
Nick Harding
neharding@wisc.edu
608-265-3735
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. )
Official Title:
ASSOC RESEARCHER(E05FN) or ASST RESEARCHER(E05LN)
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
236344-AS
The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is engaged in a Title and Total Compensation (TTC) Project to redesign job titles and compensation structures. As a result of the TTC project, official job titles on current job postings may change. Job duties and responsibilities will remain the same. For more information please visit: https://hr.wisc.edu/title-and-total-compensation-study/ .
Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department .
Applications Open: Jun 21 2021 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: Jul 16 2021 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time
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