Overview:
Goldbelt Professional Services specializes in providing expert resources for Public Health missions including scientific, technical, and administrative support from junior staff to high-level subject matter experts. Research and data driven, Goldbelt Professional Services’ experts create solutions customized to the client’s needs.
Summary:
Goldbelt Professional Services is seeking an Epidemiologist/Data Manager that will support the study of and factors contributing to the spread of diseases and work to find data-based solutions to impede their transmission.
Responsibilities:
Essential Job Functions:
- Participate in multidisciplinary workgroups, planning meetings, scientific discussions, and special projects.
- Perform additional duties as assigned in support of CDC public health surveillance, laboratory, epidemiology, and program operations.
- Develop and manage project plans, work breakdown structures, timelines, milestones, and project schedules to ensure successful execution of multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Monitor project performance, identify risks and resource constraints, recommend mitigation strategies, and communicate project status to leadership and stakeholders.
- Produce recurring project status reports, executive summaries, quarterly reports, and final project closeout reports documenting accomplishments, challenges, and recommendations.
- Support resource planning, workload prioritization, and coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
- Coordinate project deliverables and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Support backlog development, prioritization, and refinement in collaboration with technical and scientific leads.
- Coach project teams on Agile principles and adapt Agile methodologies to support scientific and public health environments.
- Track sprint progress and maintain Agile boards, project dashboards, and backlog reports.
- Draft, review, revise, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), workflow documentation, communication protocols, and operational guidance.
- Coordinate technical review and stakeholder input during SOP development.
- Ensure documentation complies with CDC, HHS, federal, and organizational standards.
- Maintain document version control and centralized repositories.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and standardize business processes.
Qualifications:
Necessary Skills and Knowledge:
- Recommend modifications to surveillance systems based on independent evaluations to improve performance, usability, and data quality.
- Support federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies in wastewater surveillance, emerging infectious disease surveillance, and outbreak response activities.
- Manage wastewater surveillance systems, epidemiologic study databases, and other public health data systems, including data provisioning, receipt, transformation, validation, cleaning, migration, analysis, and long-term maintenance.
- Develop analysis plans and perform statistical and epidemiologic analyses of surveillance and study data using SAS, SQL, R, Python, PySpark, or other analytical tools.
- Analyze, interpret, and summarize epidemiologic findings for technical reports, scientific manuscripts, CDC websites, dashboards, presentations, leadership briefings, and peer-reviewed publications.
- Collaborate with CDC scientists, epidemiologists, laboratorians, informaticians, and data analysts to support surveillance activities and epidemiologic investigations.
- Ensure surveillance and epidemiologic study data quality by monitoring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness while coordinating with internal and external partners to resolve data issues.
- Manage surveillance systems and provide user experience feedback to improve system functionality and data quality.
- Support compliance with CDC data governance, security, privacy, sharing, and release requirements.
- Maintain proficiency with surveillance systems, data management platforms, analytical software, and emerging technologies through ongoing professional development
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree Public Health, Computer Science, Statistics, Project Management or related field.
- 2+ years of experience in data analysis and/epidemiology.
- Exceptional collaborative skills with great judgment, initiative, and communication skills.
- Very organized with strong attention to detail and great problem-solving skills.
- Adapts easily to change and redirection with ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in interpersonal exchanges.
- Demonstrated ability to work well independently, be solution-oriented, motivated, and committed to customer and company success.
- Advanced use of Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Ability to navigate shifting commitments from fast-paced report generation to far-reaching project deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in public health or health-related field.
- Previous experience in emergency preparedness is highly preferred.
- Previous experience working with CDC.
- Previous experience in wastewater-based epidemiology and surveillance
- Demonstrated experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications
Pay and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually.
At Goldbelt, we value and reward our team's dedication and hard work. We provide a competitive base salary commensurate with your qualifications and experience. As an employee, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company matching, tax-deferred savings options, supplementary benefits, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.
