Company Overview:
With an annual budget of $2.3 billion and more than 7,000 employees throughout the five boroughs, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) is one of the largest public health agencies in the world, serving 8 million New Yorkers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We're tackling a broad range of public health issues with innovative policies and programs and getting exceptional results, but our work is never finished. The breadth of our innovative programs provides the widest range of choices for every member of our team.
Job Description:
The Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS) is housed within the Center for Population Health Data Science. BVS registers, amends, processes, and analyzes all vital events in New York City while also issuing certified copies of certificates to the public. Vital events include births, deaths, and spontaneous and induced terminations of pregnancy. The position of Data Analyst reports to the Director of the Statistical Analysis & Reporting Unit within the Office of Vital Statistics.
The Data Analyst will analyze these types of data for the purpose of publishing the Annual Summary of Vital Statistics on a timely basis, as well as producing data tables for the Provisional Birth & Death Data page. Work related to the Annual Summary will include creating data tables, data visualizations, and updating text summary statements; the analyst will also perform data checks and may help with copy-editing of the Annual Summary. On an as-needed basis, the Data Analyst will help fulfill internal and external data requests; learn how to match vital event data with other datasets; coordinate projects (e.g., a variable standardization project); contribute to or lead research projects that are disseminated via internal presentations, local or national conferences, or peer-reviewed publications; respond to public health emergencies that require an agency-level response.
The selected candidate will be an employee of Public Health Solutions, a nonprofit organization which is the fiscal and administrative manager of the grant but will be supervised by DOHMH.
Duties:
- Conduct statistical analyses of birth, death, other vital event data, and other registry or survey data, applying standard analytical tools to address the research questions posed, including data matching.
- Prioritize and complete internal and external vital statistics data requests as assigned.
- Produce Annual Summary of Vital Statistics data tables and figures.
- Produce routine quarterly, monthly, weekly reports.
- Support internal and external colleagues on data provision a