The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

Our mission is to improve the health of the world’s populations by providing the best information on population health.

We have an outstanding opportunity for a Data Analyst to join our Development Assistance for Health research team. The main purpose of the Data Analyst position is to provide support to key research projects through database management, data quality management, computational support to multidisciplinary research projects, data extraction and formatting, and providing key inputs for papers and presentations. Data Analysts must develop an understanding of different research needs and analytic functions across multiple projects to best meet research needs. Data Analysts must be able to independently translate requests into actionable results through interactions with research databases, formulation of displays of results, and development of complex code to be applied to a variety of quantitative data.

Responsibilities:

• Become familiar with substantive areas of expertise to understand the dimensions and uses of health data in complex multidisciplinary analyses.
• Develop code to perform survey-specific data verification and quality management. Work directly with researchers to explain and modify surveys and databases to best serve the needs of evolving data collection.
• Learn and apply computer coding skills as needed to develop surveys using pre-defined survey software as well as clean, merge, aggregate, and format datasets and to adapt databases with needed additions.
• Extract, format, and transform data from multiple sources according to set protocols and in consultation with researchers to best meet their needs.
• Create tables, figures, and charts for presentations and publications, drawing upon data and information from a multitude of sources.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, engineering, computer science, or related field plus two years’ related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Location: Office located in Seattle, WA. Eligible to work remote anywhere in United States.