Data Manager

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $85,000 - $95,000 annually

Position Summary

The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain is seeking a Data Manager to work in the lab of Dr. Miguel Arce. The ideal candidate will have primary responsibility for data integrity, data management, and data analysis for various cross-national cohort studies with the objective of analyzing how AD risk factors may impact the risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia across populations.

The candidate will harmonize and organize data sets including the maintenance of relevant data documentation. Primary decisions will be related to statistical analyses according to knowledge and experience level. Broader decisions will be made in consultation with the PI. The candidate will report to the PI and will communicate and offer advice to the PI regarding statistical approaches, program performance, and suggestions for improvement. They will perform statistical analysis of data sets, including structural equation modeling, longitudinal mixed models, and survival modeling approaches. The candidate will interact with investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and staff at Columbia University and at other sites. The candidate will assist in preparation of manuscripts for publication, participate in, and author of scientific manuscripts, and assist with power analyses and other aspects of development and implementation of research studies.

Responsibilities

• Harmonize, organize, and maintain complex datasets, ensuring data integrity and accurate documentation.
• Maintain relevant data documentation for reproducibility and transparency.
• Independently program and perform statistical analyses in R, STATA, or SAS
• Prepare datasets for statistical analysis
• Maintain database system for various projects collecting and linking clinical, imaging, genetic, biomarker, social, behavioral, administrative, and "exposome" data.
• Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
• Possess good organizational, interpersonal, quantitative, and writing skills in order to communicate effectively with investigators, data managers, and other staff.
• Test programs or databases, correct errors, and make necessary modifications.
• Plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
• Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
• Create codebooks and direct others in coding descriptions.
• Review procedures in database system manuals and consult expert collaborators for making changes to database.
• Review data requests with project manager to estimate time required to accomplish project.
• QC data requests and work with project manager before distributing to investigators and or analysts.
• Fulfill required IRB compliance trainings.
• Independently provide feedback to database users.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned/requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus four years of related research and programming experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree, doctorate, or equivalent in a scientific discipline related to the responsibilities of the position (i. e. Biostatistics, Public Health with emphasis on biostatistics or epidemiology, Quantitative Psychology, Statistics, etc.).
• Experience working with clinical, biomarker, neuroimaging, and genomic data.
• Experience maintaining data using REDCap, Qualtrics, and MS Excel.
• Experience with statistical analyses in R, MPlus, Matlab, SPSS/Stata/SAS.
• Experience with longitudinal data analysis and latent variable modeling.
• Ability to work independently and yet to maintain the flexibility to respond to requests for support of ongoing projects.

Other Requirements

We strongly encourage applications from candidates who foster and promote the values of diversity and inclusion. Applicants should have experience working within communities identified to be underrepresented in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) research, including African American/Black/African, Latino/a/x, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, rural dwelling, or persons with 12 years of education. They should have excellent communication skills, andthe flexibility to work both independently and collaboratively. This position requires most of the work to be performed in-person, onsite, andat designated campus and community work locations.

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