Hybrid Work-Eligible Drug-Checking Data Analyst

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Loan forgiveness program

Benefits package for city employees

Work from home policy

Job security and public service impact

Job summary

City of New York’s Health Department seeks a Data Analyst for the BADU program to develop and implement data collection, analysis, and reporting systems for the drug-checking initiative. You will work with the Drug Checking Team to ensure data quality and generate actionable insights.

Responsibilities include building databases, QA processes, dashboards, IRB support, and manuscript preparation, with a focus on reducing morbidity and health disparities across NYC.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in public health or related field required for Assignment Level I/II pathways.
• Doctorate or equivalent experience may be required for higher assignments.
• Experience in public health and cross-system work is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Extract, clean, manipulate, organize, and analyze data with R/REDCap/SQL.
• Collaborate with drug-checking technicians for QA and data quality.
• Assist Senior Epidemiologist in designing analyses for surveillance data.
• Design and maintain drug-checking database schemas and documentation.
• Prepare data dictionaries and codebooks for studies.
• Support programmatic reporting, dashboards, and presentations.
• Maintain drug-checking dashboard and visualization outputs.
• Develop research protocols, workflows, and survey instruments.
• Assist with IRB applications for study protocols.
• Contribute to manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.
• Support equity and policy-relevant activities within the Bureau.

Skills

Public health experience

Program monitoring

Evaluation

Quality improvement

Data analysis (R)

Data visualization

Interpersonal skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Education

Master's degree in public health or related field

Doctorate in an appropriate field

Tools

REDCap

SQL

Microsoft Access

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

City of New York’s Health Department seeks a Data Analyst for the BADU program to develop and implement data collection, analysis, and reporting systems for the drug-checking initiative. You will work with the Drug Checking Team to ensure data quality and generate actionable insights.

Responsibilities include building databases, QA processes, dashboards, IRB support, and manuscript preparation, with a focus on reducing morbidity and health disparities across NYC.