Data Analyst Program Coordinator I-Public Health (Department Promotional Only) - County of San Mateo

San Mateo County Health is seeking a well-qualified individual for the position of Data Analyst Program Coordinator I-Public Health to provide administrative and technical support for the Communicable Disease Control Program, coordinate activities and events of the assigned program with other County departments, community-based organizations and/or committees; provide highly responsible administrative staff assistance to assigned management staff, board or commission; and perform related work as required.
 
There is currently one regular vacancy in the Public Health, Policy and Planning Division. This position is located in San Mateo, CA.
 
Primary responsibilities will include:  

• Develop familiarity/expertise in the systems we use and may use down the line (e.g., CalREDIE, CalCONNECT, REDCap, Excel, etc.).
• Serve as the first point of contact for questions about these systems, attend relevant calls/webinars, summarize updates, train/educate the team on process changes.
• Extract data from various systems and develop processes for data extracts.
• Develop and run reports using various systems.
• Support and perform targeted data cleaning efforts to support surveillance efforts and exposure/outbreak response.
• Develop workflows and provide feedback to help improve data quality.
• Perform data analysis and contribute to reports and write-ups.
• Collaborate with the Epidemiology team and make suggestions on process improvements.
• Support Quality Assurance efforts.

The Ideal candidate will possess:

• Experience performing data extraction from various systems.
• Experience with performing targeted data cleaning efforts to support surveillance efforts and exposure/outbreak response.
• Experience with data analysis.
• Ability to develop and run reports from various systems.
• Demonstrated advanced skill and understanding of Excel.
• Ability to work independently. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to establish, maintain, and foster positive and effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Bachelor’s degree in public or business administration, management or a related field such as business intelligence, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, computer science, public health, quality assurance, data science is preferred but not required.

NOTE: The eligible list generated from this recruitment may be used to fill future extra-help, term, unclassified, and regular classified vacancies.