Clinical Research Data Analyst, Translational Medicine

The Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is seeking a part-time Clinical Research Data Analyst to support the clinical research database, perform data extraction, cleaning, and QA, and run analyses for studies and manuscripts. The role involves creating reproducible analytic datasets and collaborating with investigators and statisticians to advance paediatric research.

The position focuses on integrating datasets from trials, developing SQL-based workflows, and generating tables and figures to

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in data science or related quantitative field.
• Experience supporting quantitative clinical or health research.
• Experience with data management, cleaning, manipulation, and reproducible analytic datasets.
• Experience with large health or administrative datasets; EHR data preferred.
• Strong SQL and statistical programming (R and/or SAS).
• High attention to detail and ability to work independently on complex tasks.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and oversee the team's clinical trial research database, including data structure management, user access controls, data dictionaries, and documentation.
• Merge data from multiple trials within the database, perform data extraction, cleaning, validation, and quality assurance to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve data discrepancies, missing data, and inconsistencies in collaboration with research staff.
• Create and maintain analysis-ready datasets to support research studies, manuscripts, presentations, and grant applications.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries and reproducible analytical workflows to support ongoing research activities.
• Conduct statistical analyses and generate tables, figures, and summary reports to support study objectives and research dissemination.
• Collaborate with investigators, research coordinators, trainees, and statisticians to support study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

Skills

SQL

R programming

SAS

Data management

Data cleaning

Statistical analysis

Communication

Time management

Education

Graduate degree in data science or related field

Job description

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world's best in paediatric healthcare.

We are looking for a Clinical Research Data Analyst who will work closely with our research team to maintain and oversee our clinical research database, lead data extraction and quality assurance activities, prepare and integrate datasets from trials within the database, and perform statistical analyses to support clinical research projects, manuscripts, grant applications and reporting. Our clinically embedded research team is interested in promoting the use of human milk, including donor human milk, in very low birth weight infants to reduce morbidity and improve their growth and development: https://www.maximom-research.com/research

Here's What You Get To Do

• Maintain and oversee the team's clinical trial research database, including data structure management, user access controls, data dictionaries, and documentation.
• Merge data from multiple trials within the database, perform data extraction, cleaning, validation, and quality assurance to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve data discrepancies, missing data, and inconsistencies in collaboration with research staff.
• Create and maintain analysis-ready datasets to support research studies, manuscripts, presentations, and grant applications.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries and reproducible analytical workflows to support ongoing research activities.
• Conduct statistical analyses and generate tables, figures, and summary reports to support study objectives and research dissemination.
• Collaborate with investigators, research coordinators, trainees, and statisticians to support study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

Here's What You Need

• Graduate degree in data science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting quantitative clinical or health research, including the application of appropriate statistical methods.
• Experience with data management, cleaning, manipulation, and the creation of reproducible analytic datasets.
• Experience working with large and complex health or administrative datasets; experience with electronic health record data is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and in statistical programming using R and/or SAS
• High level of precision and attention to detail, with the ability to work independently on complex analytic tasks.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and develop strong working relationships with multidisciplinary research team members.
• A commitment to understanding and supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion objectives.

Terms

0.2 FTE for one year with possibility of renewal.

SickKids is committed to championing equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do, fostering an intentionally inclusive and culturally safe environment that reflects the diversity of the patients, families and communities we serve. Learn more about workplace inclusion.

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