Public Health Data Steward & Documentation Lead

Cherokee Federal; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

Job summary

Cherokee Nation Integrated Health (CNIH) is seeking a Public Health Data & Documentation Specialist (Data Manager) to manage data processing, QA, documentation, and reporting. The role focuses on data-driven public health activities, workflow improvement, and secure handling of health information.

The successful candidate will build reproducible workflows in R, SAS, Power BI, and Excel; support documentation standards; and coordinate with program staff and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, health informatics, data science, information systems, statistics, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• Experience using R, SAS, Excel, and Power BI daily.
• Experience maintaining program, surveillance, tracking, or health information systems and managing structured data and documentation.
• Experience developing reproducible workflows, automated documentation processes, reports, or data products using R, R Markdown, Power BI, Excel, Microsoft Access, or comparable tools.
• Experience preparing data dictionaries, codebooks, templates, SOPs, workflow documentation, or version-control procedures.
• Experience identifying data or system discrepancies, researching anomalies, coordinating corrections, and implementing process improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to coordinate effectively with program staff, informatics personnel, system users, and internal or external partners.

Responsibilities

• Pilot new or revised workflows using test, historical, or otherwise approved data; document issues and unresolved decisions; and prepare workflows for routine implementation.
• Update and maintain program, surveillance, and tracking systems to ensure records are current, complete, and accurate.
• Ingest structured data files and apply program-defined business rules to generate letters, status summaries, and other products; validate against source records before release.
• Manage data files, documentation packets, generated letters, issue logs, partner submissions, and final records in approved systems and secure storage locations.
• Develop and maintain reproducible workflows in R, R Markdown, Power BI, Excel, Microsoft Access, or comparable tools.
• Track workflow volume, outstanding records, exceptions, completeness, turnaround time, and other program-defined measures; provide routine status summaries.
• Conduct data cleaning, merging, deduplication, validation, quality assurance, and descriptive analyses in R, SAS, or comparable packages.
• Prepare data dictionaries, codebooks, templates, SOPs, workflow documentation, and version-control procedures.
• Identify data, documentation, workflow, or system discrepancies; research anomalies; coordinate corrections; and recommend process improvements.
• Provide routine project management and coordination support, including tracking timelines, milestones, deliverables, risks, decisions, meeting notes, follow-up items, and action items.
• Handle personally identifiable information and health information per privacy, information security, records management, and data-use requirements.

Skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Written communication

Verbal communication

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, health informatics, data science, information systems, statistics, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

R

SAS

Excel

Power BI

Microsoft Access

Job description

Cherokee Nation Integrated Health (CNIH) is seeking a Public Health Data & Documentation Specialist (Data Manager) to manage data processing, QA, documentation, and reporting. The role focuses on data-driven public health activities, workflow improvement, and secure handling of health information.

The successful candidate will build reproducible workflows in R, SAS, Power BI, and Excel; support documentation standards; and coordinate with program staff and external partners.