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Job Title: Data Analytics Unit Manager
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Organization: Florida Department of Health
Posted: 8/15/2024
Type: Full-Time
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Number of Openings: 1
Location: Tallahassee,  FL   
Compensation: $60,000.00 - $64,890.28
Position Description: This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets.

This is a masters-level epidemiological position as the Data Analytics and Informatics Unit lead for the Surveillance Systems Section within the Bureau of Epidemiology. The duties of this position support mission-critical disease surveillance functions. Management of this Unit will include multiple master’s and doctoral-level epidemiologists as necessary and per grant requirements.

Directs the work of the Data Analytics and Informatics Unit. Responsible for the supervision of data scientists, data analysts, biostatisticians, and other team staff whose duties range from dashboard development and maintenance, statistical and compartmental approaches for infectious disease forecasting and situational models, routine and ad-hoc disease data querying and report generation, data governance for internal and external partners needing to access surveillance section data, as well as any resulting Data Use Agreements (DUAs) that are the result of data requests.

Oversees the development of disease surveillance dashboards within the Surveillance Section and those developed for external programs. Ensures that dashboards are developed at industry standards, follow strict development protocols, and that dashboards fulfill all users' needs having access to the department’s disease reporting and surveillance repository (Merlin).

Develops strategy and prioritization of analytic products to align with agency, division, and bureau goals and those planned as grant deliverables across multiple programs. Collaborates with other entities within the department to ensure program needs are met. Identifies best practices and incorporates these into analytic products and tools. Identifies needed automation for reports and analytics for leadership, program managers, and surveillance staff across the Bureau, which also supports county health department epidemiologists. Manages the team’s delivery of technical assistance to users across the division and incorporates routine revisions and assessment of analytic products.

Assists in writing grant proposals, planning, and completing grant requirements, reports, and milestones. Prepares and ensures on-time submission of grant progress reports, technical reports, surveillance summaries, and scientific papers and performs related work as required.

Leads abstract submission and preparation of presentations for state and national meetings. Represents the bureau at national and statewide professional conferences. Represents the bureau at departmental meetings. Attends bureau meetings and gives presentations regarding the status of projects/activities.

Collaborates with a variety of professional organizations, associations, universities, institutions; schools of nursing, medicine, and public health; the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other related interests to further advance the epidemiologic activities of the Bureau of Epidemiology.

Assists in developing surveillance case definitions and data elements and validates that reports and analytic products align with data in Merlin. Provides a necessary backstop on unsuspected changes and failure points, supporting the Merlin team’s development priorities through temporary analytic solutions for surveillance programs across the Bureau of Epidemiology.

Perform other duties as assigned.

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Organization Description:

Closing Date: 11/21/2024
Desired Starting Date:
Contact Name: Jared Jashinsky,  Surveillance Section Admin
Contact Location:

Tallahassee   FL  
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  Tallahassee   FL  
 
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Contact Email: jared.jashinsky@flhealth.gov
Web Address: https://jobs.myflorida.com/job/TALLAHASSEE-SYSTEMS-PROGRAMMING-ADMINISTRATOR-SES-64056541-FL-32301/1
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