AHPS Data Disseminator Coordinator

UNC-Chapel Hill; North Carolina; On-site; USD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid leave

Retirement plans

Exclusive campus discounts

Job summary

UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Population Center is seeking a Data Dissemination Coordinator to support the Add Health Parent Study, monitor data assessments, and prepare updates for IRB approval. You will create documentation for data releases and coordinate multi-phase data merging and public-use data deposition with ICPSR.

The role emphasizes data accessibility, literature reviews, and outreach to the AHPS user community, with a focus on methodological rigor and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree with 0–2 years’ experience, or equivalent education/experience.
• Strong data management and IRB experience preferred.
• Ability to develop plans, timelines, and coordinate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Support AHPS data management, trouble shoot data issues, and update protocols for IRB approval.
• Create user-friendly guides and documentation for data releases.
• Coordinate data preparation, merging Phase 1 and 2, and deposition with ICPSR.

Skills

IRB understanding

Research data management

Organizational skills

Project coordination

Education

Master’s degree in information sciences, social sciences or public health

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

R

SAS

Stata

encryption software

Job description

Hiring Range $55,000 to $65,000 dependent on qualifications

One of the best college towns and best places to live in the United States, Chapel Hill has diverse social, cultural, recreation and professional opportunities that span the campus and community.

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Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

Since 1966, researchers at the Carolina Population Center have pioneered data collection and research techniques that move population science forward by emphasizing life course approaches, longitudinal surveys, the integration of biological measurement into social surveys, and attention to context and environment. We are also at the forefront of creating interdisciplinary training programs that integrate approaches from the social and biological sciences, building research capacity and training the next generation of scholars. Our faculty fellows address pressing research questions about population dynamics, fertility, health, mortality, migration, and the environment. Faculty come from multiple disciplines, benefitting from the cross-pollination of ideas. Our dedicated research and programming staff support fellows at every stage of project development, from conception through data collection or acquisition, analysis and dissemination, and project administration. https://www.cpc.unc.edu/about/

Position Summary

The Carolina Population Center ( CPC ) is a community of scholars and professionals collaborating on interdisciplinary research and methods that advance understanding of population issues. The Center conducts path-breaking work across the US and in more than 50 other countries and makes its findings available to a global audience. A nationally recognized training program educates the next generation of population scholars. The Add Health Parent Study ( AHPS ), housed at CPC , is an innovative intergenerational biosocial project funded by NIH for a second phase that will expand the study sample and add new cognitive and genetic data. An interdisciplinary team of scientists will collect longitudinal cognitive, social, behavioral, and biological data on parents of individuals who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), which has been administered at CPC for 25+ years. Phase 2 of the Add Health Parent Study will expand the AHPS sample through additional recruitment of parents. These new participants will be administered a one-hour survey that Phase 1 participants completed. The full AHPS sample (e.g., Phase 1 and 2) will then be administered an Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias (AD/ ADRD ) Assessment, and physical measures and DNA data collection. These data will be linked to an earlier wave of data collection on the parents to create longitudinal AHPS data and also linked to longitudinal data on their children in Add Health. Cognitive measures across the two generations and a multigenerational genomic database will be created, and these new data will be available to the scientific community of 50,000+ Add Health and AHPS users. This project will facilitate the study of cognitive aging, caregiving, dementia risks and related health outcomes across two generations with longitudinal, nationally representative data collected from adult children and their parents. The Data Dissemination Coordinator will work closely with the Add Health Parent Study Project Managers, data manager and programmer to assist them in close monitoring of the Assessment data, trouble shoot data issues and prepare any updates to the protocols to the IRB for approval. They will also provide help in variable construction and descriptive analyses of AD/ ADRD data for validity checks by comparing prevalence estimates of the various cognitive assessments to data from other comparable national studies. The Data Dissemination Coordinator will be instrumental in supporting the AHPS data manager and project staff by creating user-friendly guides and documentation for data releases, maintaining data file consistency, and updating the AHPS website for easy data access via the CPC Data Portal. They will also facilitate communication of new data releases to the Add Health and AHPS user community, focusing on enhancing data accessibility. They will perform literature review and research brief for the Add Health community. Additionally, they will manage the Phase 2 public use sample, merging it with the Phase 1 sample and combining Phase 1 and 2 data files with the Wave I parent sample. Their role also includes overseeing the deposition of longitudinal public use data with comprehensive documentation to ICPSR for public use AHPS data release, without involvement in contract-related tasks.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Master’s or Bachelor’s and 0-2 years’ experience; or will accept a combination of related education and experience in substitution.

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

• Extensive understanding of IRB , research data and some experience as a research analyst.
• The successful candidate must demonstrate outstanding organizational and management skills, including the ability to develop plans and timelines for research and technical activities, anticipate and solve problems, prioritize competing demands, work independently, and effectively coordinate activities among various individuals.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

• A master’s degree in information sciences, social sciences or public health, or related area is preferred.
• Familiarity with tools such as R, SAS , Stata, statistical transfer software, encryption software is desirable.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all to apply without regard to age, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Required Documents

• Curriculum Vitae / Resume
• Cover Letter
• List of References

Optional Documents

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

• * Please select the response below that describes your level of education that best or most closely satisfies the education requirements for this position.
  • Bachelor’s degree in required discipline(s) listed or related field
  • Bachelor's degree in any field/discipline
  • Master's degree or Doctorate degree in required discipline(s) listed or related field
  • Master's degree or Doctorate degree in any field/discipline
  • None of the above
• * Describe a time when you were managing multiple projects simultaneously with overlapping deadlines.

  (Open Ended Question)

• * Please describe a specific project or dataset you coordinated. What specific program(s) or software did you use to manage task dependencies and ensure the data was released accurately and on schedule?

  (Open Ended Question)