Data Management Specialist

Orygen; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Not-for-profit salary packaging

12% superannuation

Meals and entertainment card

Job summary

Orygen, Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, invites applications for a Data Management Specialist in the Research Office and DSAM. You will design data management plans, build REDCap databases and establish data governance across projects, ensuring data quality and ethics compliance.

You will collaborate with researchers and biostatisticians, delivering training and shaping reproducible workflows to support FAIR data principles in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Biostatistics or related field.
• Experience managing research or health datasets, including building and maintaining REDCap databases.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, privacy, FAIR data principles and ethics and governance processes.
• Proficiency in R, Python and/or SQL with experience developing data management plans, metadata standards and reproducible workflows.
• Excellent communication skills, sharp attention to detail and an eagerness to learn in a fast-paced research environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data management plans, REDCap databases and validated measures libraries across Orygen's research portfolio
• Lead data governance and compliance, ensuring adherence to ethics, privacy legislation and regulatory requirements while championing FAIR data principles
• Drive data quality through validation, auditing, data dictionaries and reproducible workflows that keep datasets inspection and analysis-ready
• Partner with researchers, biostatisticians and the Research Office to deliver training and continuously improve data management infrastructure
• Contribute to grant applications, manuscripts and reports at one of the world's leading youth mental health organisations

Skills

R

Python

SQL

Data governance

Ethics & governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Biostatistics or related field

Tools

REDCap

Relational databases

R

Python

SQL

Job description

• Parkville/Hybrid location | Paid onsite parking + close to public transport
• Full time, 12-month contract | Potential to extend
• Newly created position | Join Orygen's Research Office

About Orygen

Orygen is Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and the largest translational research organisation dedicated to youth mental health in the world.

For over 30 years, Orygen has led groundbreaking early intervention and developed evidence-based models of care to improve the mental health outcomes of young people aged 12-25.

About the job

The Data Management Specialist will lead data management and governance activities across research and operational projects within the Research Office and the Data Science and Analytical Methods (DSAM) team. The role is responsible for ensuring research data is managed securely, consistently and in accordance with organisational, ethical and regulatory requirements.

Reporting to Director, Research Operations you will:

• Design and implement data management plans, REDCap databases and validated measures libraries across Orygen's research portfolio
• Lead data governance and compliance, ensuring adherence to ethics, privacy legislation and regulatory requirements while championing FAIR data principles
• Drive data quality through validation, auditing, data dictionaries and reproducible workflows that keep datasets inspection and analysis-ready
• Partner with researchers, biostatisticians and the Research Office to deliver training and continuously improve data management infrastructure
• Contribute to grant applications, manuscripts and reports at one of the world's leading youth mental health organisations

Skills and experience

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Biostatistics or related field.
• Experience managing research or health datasets, including building and maintaining REDCap databases and working with relational databases.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, privacy, FAIR data principles and ethics and governance processes.
• Proficiency in R, Python and/or SQL with experience developing data management plans, metadata standards and reproducible workflows.
• Excellent communication skills, sharp attention to detail and an eagerness to learn in a fast-paced research environment.

Benefits

• $110,000 - $120,000 p.a + 12% superannuation and $15,900 in NFP salary packaging + $2,600 meals and entertainment card.
• Embrace the freedom of a hybrid work model, combining remote work with on-site collaboration.
• Make a real impact on young people in a dynamic, youth-centered environment.
• Work in a state-of-the-art facility co-designed with young people to advance youth mental health.
• Support Orygen's mission for youth mental health and contribute to positive social change.
• Be part of a team that values collaboration and innovative thinking, driving impactful results.

Before applying at Orygen, it’s important to understand that you may encounter sensitive information related to mental health as part of your work. Being aware of this and how it could affect you is essential in deciding if this is the right opportunity for you.

Orygen is committed to providing diverse, equitable and inclusive environments for Staff and anyone connected to Orygen. We strive to continue building a culturally safe workplace where our values underpin the way we work and our commitment to First Nations people of Australia, young people and their families, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ people and CALD communities. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people.

Orygen is a child-safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and well-being of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services. All employment appointments are subject to holding a valid working with children check and successful police check.

Join the revolution

Imagine a future with unlimited potential. A future where every young person enjoys optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood. Everything we do at Orygen is about helping to create that future, because we passionately believe it’s what all young people deserve.

The outcomes of the Royal Commission into the Victorian Mental Health System will enable a revolutionary new era of reform in mental health that will finally see youth mental health progress in the direction that Orygen has pioneered over the past 30 years.

To leverage these changes, Orygen is building a mental health workforce for the future.

Young people and their families are at the heart of everything we do: our world-leading research that creates positive change, our unrivalled training and clinical care, and our pioneering reforms that create real-world solutions.

We are fearless. We are collaborative. We are committed. We are determined. And we make no apology for that.

At Orygen, that’s the future we’re creating right now. To do it, we have revolution in mind.

Why choose Orygen?

Flexible work options, access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and a range of other staff wellbeing initiatives.

Not-for-profit salary packaging and parental leave scheme.

Young people and their families are at the heart of everything we do.

We believe in building and sustaining a healthy workplace culture where staff feel engaged, supported and motivated. Check out some of the key highlights from our 2021 staff engagement survey:

Our values

Respect

We acknowledge and value the experience, diversity and expertise of our colleagues and the young people and families who seek our support, and commit to acting in a manner that facilitates and encourages equal participation.

Accountability

We take responsibility for delivering on our commitments as individuals and as teams and commit to being honest and transparent in all our dealings.

Teamwork

We prioritise inclusivity, supportiveness, flexibility, communication and mutual respect that builds on one another's strengths and diversity in the pursuit of shared goals.

We work to continuously improve our practices, remaining open to feedback and new ideas, to ensure we do our best for young people and their families.

We encourage and support novel, creative and evidence-based solutions to complex problems and look for opportunities to collaborate and partner to optimise our ideas.

We encourage and support novel, creative and evidence-based solutions to complex problems and look for opportunities to collaborate and partner to optimise our ideas.

These values are underpinned by our strategic commitment to partner with:

• young people and their families;
• First Nations people of Australia;
• LGBTIQA+ people; and
• culturally and linguistically diverse people.