Injury Prevention Informatics Coordinator – Limited Duration (12 months)
- Oregon Health Authority
- Portland, OR
- May 25, 2021
Job Description
REQ-65432
Close date: 6/15/2021
Salary: $5106 to $7847 per month
Location: Portland, OR
This is a full-time, limited duration management service position which is not represented by a union. Current Oregon Health Authority employees may have an additional option as a job rotation.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Public Health Division (PHD), Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention (ACDP) section in Portland, OR is recruiting for an Injury Prevention Informatics Coordinator to contribute to injury morbidity surveillance initiatives within the Acute & Communicable Disease Prevention section.
Most of this work may be conducted remotely at an alternate worksite with full access to the needed operating systems and technology. However, there are times that the work will need to be conducted at the central work location listed in this announcement, the Portland State Office Building located at 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland, OR 97232. Work location can be changed at any time at the discretion of the hiring manager.
What will you do?
As the Injury Prevention Informatics Coordinator, you will manage data from multiple data sets, develop data quality assessments, and create platforms for data exchange among state, federal, and local partners. You will collaborate with real-time surveillance teams in the Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP) and Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention (ACDP) sections and contribute to a data advisory groups to evaluate and improve real-time surveillance efforts for non-infectious conditions.
As the Injury Prevention Informatics Coordinator, you will work closely with the ACDP ESSENCE data quality analyst and epidemiologists and Injury and Violence Prevention section analysts and provide leadership and coordination to the technical staff within IVP. This position must be able to work in a complex arena with national, state and local professionals in public health, epidemiology, evaluation, and informatics.
What's in it for you?
The public health division is a team of passionate individuals working to promote health across the lifespan of individuals, families, and communities. We value and support unique perspectives using a trauma-informed approach and aim to reflect these values in our hiring practices, professional development and workplace. We are committed to racial equity as a driving factor to improve health outcomes for all communities that experience inequities.
We offer full medical, vision and dental benefits with paid sick leave, vacation, personal leave and 10 paid holidays per year plus pension and retirement plans. If you a professional in public health with experience in informatics and injury prevention, apply today.
What are we looking for?
Requested Skills
- Minimum requirements: A bachelor's degree in public health or a related field AND four years of professional-level evaluative, analytical and planning experience related to public health; OR any combination of experience and education equivalent to seven years of professional-level evaluative, analytical and planning experience related to public health.
- Master’s degree in public health or equivalent in training and experience in public health data, public health informatics, data systems design, and database management.
- Experience with data collection and use methodologies, including survey research, registry operations, interactive data system principles and design options, and data warehouse development and use.
- Experience in epidemiology and statistical analysis.
- Good team player skills are necessary, including the willingness to collaborate, share information, and contribute to the team’s success and a positive respectful and productive work environment.
- Rigorous adherence to the highest standards of confidentiality regarding patient information is required.
- Experience preparing and presenting highly complex technical material and issues to non-specialists.
- Experience expressing ideas orally and in writing, using appropriate language, organizing ideas and marshaling facts in an objective manner.
- Experience identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Experience translating and/or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Proficient in SPSS, EpiInfo, FileMaker, Windows Desktop and Server, file transfer protocol (FTP and sFTP), Virtual Private Network (VPN), Windows, and Microsoft Office including MS Access, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
- Experience with public health data formatting and coding standards, including Health Level Seven (HL7), International Classification of Diseases (ICD), and other standardized and proprietary codes.
- Experience working with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and data.
- Experience promoting a culturally competent and diverse work environment.
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Cyndi Phipps-Roman
503-569-0066
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