Data Analyst
Role Overview
The Data Analyst role supports the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
The analyst conducts quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate program effectiveness, improve administrative operations, and inform management decisions.
Work includes study methods, review of financial and program data, cost analyses, reporting, and recommendations for workflow and management improvements.
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About Axle
Axle provides translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations.
The company works with research organizations including institutes at the National Institutes of Health.
Position overview
The Data Analyst role supports the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
The analyst conducts quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate program effectiveness, improve administrative operations, and inform management decisions.
Work includes study methods, review of financial and program data, cost analyses, reporting, and recommendations for workflow and management improvements.
Responsibilities
- Develop evaluation methods for program reviews, studies, and audits; interpret findings and recommend improvements.
- Gather, reconcile, validate, and analyze information from multiple sources, including incomplete or conflicting data.
- Evaluate programs, grant operations, and administrative activities against goals, measures, and objectives.
- Prepare reports, statistical tables, program status summaries, and recommendations on schedule.
- Review financial, narrative, and statistical reports and program data from local, state, regional, and federal levels.
- Conduct life-cycle cost, cost-benefit, and economic analyses of programs.
- Assess processes, procedures, organizational structures, and data systems; recommend improvements to efficiency, productivity, and cost effectiveness.
- Develop or modify work methods, records systems, management processes, staffing patterns, guidelines, and procedures.
- Identify administrative workflow automation and technology opportunities; evaluate organizational changes, including centralization or decentralization.
- Plan studies, define scope and deadlines, estimate costs, coordinate with staff and management, and engage stakeholders to resolve issues and present findings.
- Serve as a point of contact for assigned program analyses, planning activities, and science policy requests; communicate findings or issues with broad impact.
- Provide a monthly summary of tasks worked on and completed.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information management, computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, or equivalent.
- Experience performing data analysis and using computer science and artificial intelligence to process datasets.
- Knowledge of analytical and evaluative methods for assessing program and administrative effectiveness.
- Ability to plan, schedule, and conduct studies and adapt evaluation criteria to improve organizational productivity.
- Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and precedents affecting program resources and administrative support operations.
- Knowledge of relevant program goals, objectives, work processes, and administrative operations.
- Skill in developing or modifying work methods, management processes, organizational structures, and procedures.
- Ability to interpret guidance, reconcile information from multiple sources, and recommend solutions to substantive operational issues.
Compensation
- The listed salary range is $110,000–$120,000 per year.
Benefits
- Benefits include employee medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, paid holidays, and a 401(k) match up to 5%.
- Other listed benefits include educational benefits, an employee referral bonus, and flexible spending accounts.
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