Epidemiologist II: Vaccine Effectiveness & Surveillance Lead

Goldbelt Professional Services; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldbelt Professional Services seeks an Epidemiologist II to support vaccine effectiveness analyses, case surveillance, and special investigations for public health partners. The role involves coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, managing data, and preparing manuscripts and technical communications.

The candidate will contribute to surveillance systems, data quality, and study design while engaging clinicians and public health officials.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of public health research, epidemiologic studies, case-based surveillance, and study coordination practices.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate study and surveillance activities across multidisciplinary teams and external public health partners.
• Experience cleaning, validating, organizing, and managing surveillance or research data to support case identification, cluster review, investigations, and study activities.
• Knowledge of database management, data quality assurance, and maintenance of accurate study and surveillance records.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of Microsoft Access and statistical or analytical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, or similar tools.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills, including tracking study activities, managing deadlines, maintaining documentation, and balancing multiple priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for interacting with clinicians, public health officials, state and local partners, study teams, and members of the public.
• Ability to develop study materials, training resources, presentations, surveillance summaries, technical documentation, and scientific reports.
• Ability to support public health consultation and phone-duty activities by collecting relevant information, accurately documenting interactions, and appropriately communicating or escalating concerns.

Responsibilities

• Lead studies about vaccine effectiveness, including coordinating with partners to facilitate execution of shared studies.
• Develop study design under supervisor and perform analyses pertaining to vaccine effectiveness analyses and other analyses.
• Conduct cleaning and analyses on surveillance data to assist in the identification of cases/clusters or concerns for investigations.
• Provide support for case-based surveillance systems; working with the pox Epidemiology team and external/state partners to assist in the advancement of national case surveillance.
• Conduct cleaning and analyses on surveillance data to assist in the identification of cases/clusters or concerns for investigations.
• Manage data for multiple clinical studies, including vaccine effectiveness studies.
• Write manuscripts, communications, or emails that facilitate partner engagement.
• Provide assistance on database design, management, and analyses for epidemiology projects within the branch and for special investigations.
• Communications to public health professionals via the development of materials and participation in trainings and meetings.
• Provide service to clinicians, public health officials, and citizens for the poxvirus phone duty.

Skills

Public health research

Epidemiology studies

Study coordination

Data cleaning

Database management

Excel

Access

SAS

SPSS

R

Communication skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Associate in a related field (public health/epidemiology)

Master’s in public health (preferred)

Tools

SAS

SPSS

R

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

SQL

Job description

Goldbelt Professional Services seeks an Epidemiologist II to support vaccine effectiveness analyses, case surveillance, and special investigations for public health partners. The role involves coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, managing data, and preparing manuscripts and technical communications.

The candidate will contribute to surveillance systems, data quality, and study design while engaging clinicians and public health officials.