Data Analyst, Programs and Evaluation

CURE International Children's Hospitals • Grand Rapids, MI

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About The Position

The Programs Data Analyst serves as a data lead for CURE's global Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Data (MELD) efforts. This critical, hands-on role is responsible for ensuring the
reliability and quality of CURE’s data pipelines. The ideal candidate is a highly meticulous,
self-starting analyst who excels at diagnosing data issues, understands data quality and relational databases, and can quickly deliver high-quality data visualizations and analysis.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Informatics, Computer Science, or a closely related quantitative field.
• Experience: Minimum of 3 years of hands-on professional experience analyzing and managing large, complex relational datasets in a technical capacity.
• Health Data: Required experience working with healthcare and hospital data (e.g. electronic health records, patient registries, operational metrics).
• Technical Coding Proficiencies: Expert proficiency in SQL for complex querying, view creation, and data manipulation. Expert proficiency in R for statistical computing, data wrangling, and reporting. Proven experience and proficiency in Python coding.
• Data visualization: Experience with data visualization software including Metabase, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Work Style: Demonstrated eagerness to learn, self-starter, and the ability to work independently and meticulously with extreme attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with International Travel: Willingness to travel periodically (up to 10%) to CURE's hospitals in low-income countries for hands-on technical support, training, and data quality audits.
• Global Experience: Experience working with teams in a global, non-profit, or international setting.
• Evaluation or Research Experience: Experience working on research or evaluation projects in an academic or non-profit setting.

Responsibilities

• Data Integrity & Quality Control: Implement and manage ongoing data quality assurance checks. This includes monitoring for data anomalies, flagging data quality issues (e.g., missing values, inconsistencies), and executing cleaning processes.
• Pipeline Development (ETL): Support maintenance of automated data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) scripts using SQL and R/Python to move data reliably from source hospital systems (like EMRs) into the central data warehouse.
• Database Querying & Management: Write, optimize, and maintain complex, production-grade SQL for intricate data extraction, cleaning, and aggregation.
• Program Monitoring: Support the development of high-quality reports for hospitals including monthly data quality checks, key performance indicator monitoring, and visualizations for clinical efficiency and quality.
• Outcome Research: Support the MELD director in analysis to prove CURE’s outcomes, including survey research and psychometric evaluations of spiritual and shame scales.
• Analytical Execution: Execute and automate the statistical analyses and data manipulation tasks defined by the Network MELD Director, using R for statistical computing and data preparation.
• Data Support: Build, maintain, and troubleshoot the underlying data queries and views that feed interactive reports and dashboards (e.g., in Metabase).
• Data Use & Training: Supports data collectors and other team members in understanding, interpreting, and leveraging data.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees