Epidemiologist 2
Quality Staffing
Contract
On-site
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Quality Staffing, Inc., also doing business as Goddard Mason Executive Search, a leading full-service employment agency matching qualified talent with some of the area's top companies, is seeking an experienced Epidemiologist 2 to work through our agency as a contract employee with the Tennessee Department of Health (TN DOH) located in Nashville, TN. This is a hybrid position working from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday for a total of 37.5 hours per week. The pay rate for this position is $57.00 per hour.
Epidemiologist 2 Job Description:
The Viral Hepatitis (VH) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) division of the Tennessee Department of Health (TN DOH) is currently seeking an Epidemiologist 2. This is a contract position which currently requires 5 in-office days per month so the candidate MUST be local to the Nashville area.
Epidemiologist 2 Job Duties will include:
- Serving as the data manager for the CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET) grant.
- Providing quality assurance for SET-NET data entered into a REDCap specific project.
- Transmitting SET-NET data to CDC per protocol.
- Developing data visualizations for internal and external partners.
- Serving as the data liaison between TDH and CDC.
- Supervising a Medical Records Abstractor as well as a Data Entry Specialist.
- Requesting and maintaining access to electronic health records throughout Tennessee.
- Conducting surveillance on hepatitis C, syphilis, and other emerging health threats on pregnant people and their infants.
- Participating in grant-related conference calls, meetings, and site visits.
- Conducting data analysis as needed for grant-related meetings, trainings/technical assistance requests, and grant deliverables.
- Assisting with viral hepatitis surveillance data entry and/or medical record requests, as needed.
- Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
- Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
- Participating in the development of the annual Viral Hepatitis Epidemiological Profile.
- Assisting with the end of the year data validation and closeout as requested.
- Responding to internal and external viral hepatitis inquiries as assigned.
- Developing detailed procedural guides for all assigned tasks.
- Additional tasks as assigned.
Epidemiologist 2 Education and Experience Requirements:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics.
- Substitution of Education for Experience: Master's degree with experience equivalent to five years of work experience in epidemiology.
Desired Qualifications for Epidemiologist 2 position:
- Knowledge of viral hepatitis and maternal/child health
- Supervisory experience
- Experience writing statistical and analytical programing code in SAS
- Data visualization (e.g., Tableau)
- Experience leading projects with multiple partners and collaborators
- Time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while completing projects within the allocated timeframes
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, working both individually and as part of a team
- Ability to work collaboratively across programs and interact with all levels of departmental staff, the public, and other governmental and non-governmental entities
- Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department
- Experience with the CDC-developed National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience developing, maintaining, entering, and extracting data from REDCap databases
- Experience collaborating with internal and external partners (e.g., CDC, community-based organizations)
Benefits Include:
- Weekly Pay/Comparable Wages
- Major Medical Insurance
- Indemnity Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Term Life insurance and Short-Term Disability
Interested? Here is how to apply:
- Visit our website at: www.qualitystaffing.com
- Click on “Apply Now” and complete the process.
- Follow up with a phone text to 615-540-8186, Quality Staffing's TN recruiter.
- Please text your first & last name, your email address, and job #64034 Epidemiologist, Nashville.
- This job closes on 3/7/25 (or when the position is filled) and will no longer accept resumes after this date.
Quality Staffing, Inc. and our subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and consider all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.
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