Data Analyst 2
Silver Spring, MD

Job Description

Job Description

The Psychological Health Center of Excellence (PHCoE) within the Defense Health Agency (DHA) provides psychological healthcare support to the nation's Service members, veterans, and families. The Performance & Analytics (P&A) Branch within PHCoE develops relevant, timely, and actionable analytic support using large administrative clinical data to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and impact of psychological health care in the Military Health System (MHS). P&A is seeking a motivated individual to join a team of analysts, evaluators, research psychologists, and epidemiologists, providing rigorous and forward-thinking analytic support to PHCoE and its stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Conceptualize, design, and conduct health care surveillance and monitoring efforts to identify areas of strength as well as potential gaps in providing mental health care in the MHS, with the goal of informing MHS policy and programmatic action
* Develop code using statistical analysis software to analyze data on health care utilization among service members, military retirees, and their dependents
* Develop process and outcome metrics related to mental health care delivery
* Assess data quality with an eye towards reliability and validity of variables in administrative clinical records
* Monitor and evaluate program functioning to assess performance against established standards/benchmarks
* Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify new surveillance, evaluation, and research efforts
* Develop presentations for leadership to share findings and assist in making actionable recommendations
* Disseminate findings through media such as data dashboards, information papers, manuscripts, and blogs

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree with 2-5 years' experience
* Experience performing analyses using large, complex data sets
* Advanced experience writing code in SAS to conduct analyses and for data management and cleaning
* Advanced skills in using Excel to analyze and manipulate data
* Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, listening, presentation, and facilitation

Desired Qualifications

* Experience writing R, and/or SQL code to extract datasets from large data repositories and relational databases
* Experience working with healthcare records or health-related data
* Experience using statistical software packages to conduct descriptive and inferential statistics
* Experience with data visualization in Tableau
* Experience with developing strategies for process improvement

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