Regional Technical Advisor

Summary

Join the CDC Foundation as a full-time Regional Technical Advisor to support projects monitoring e-cigarette and tobacco product sales and use. This grant-funded, 24-month position involves managing relationships with governmental and nongovernmental organizations, leading data dissemination, and contributing to data analysis. The role requires strong communication and teamwork skills and is fully remote for U.S.-based candidates with up to 10% travel. A competitive salary ($85,000-$115,000) and a full suite of benefits are offered. The position focuses on generating data to assess the effectiveness of e-cigarette and tobacco flavor restriction policies.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or higher) in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, public health, or related field
• Minimum of five years of experience working with regional collaboratives, state governmental and/or nongovernmental organizations
• Minimum of two to five years of experience cleaning, managing and analyzing data
• Experience in developing, disseminating and translating scientific writing products for diverse audiences, including abstracts, conference presentations, manuscripts and reports
• Experience engaging and working collaboratively with diverse partners, including local, state, regional and national governmental agencies, advocacy groups and public health practitioners to engage in strategic partnerships
• Strong data management and analysis skills, including experience applying statistical techniques to nontraditional types of data
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and strong attention to detail
• Outstanding interpersonal skills; congenial, energetic and able to develop productive relationships with colleagues and partners in a hybrid working environment

Responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance to state governmental and nongovernmental organizations to understand, interpret and contextualize tobacco product retail sales and usage data for states within their region
• Advise, partner with and support state governmental and nongovernmental organizations to strengthen competencies for improved monitoring of flavored tobacco products and public health programming in tobacco control and cessation
• Lead or support the production of technical reports, graphs, charts, tables and narrative material to be used in presentations by CDC Foundation at regional meetings, national conferences and partner engagements
• Lead state and regional data analysis and interpretation for states within region using related statistical software packages
• Oversee data monitoring and data quality assurances for specified data set on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Lead or support the development of comprehensive reports, manuscripts, abstracts, posters and/or presentations that include findings monthly and quarterly analysis for use by CDC Foundation and supported state governmental and nongovernmental organizations
• Collaborate with CDC Foundation and state governmental and nongovernmental organizations to support quantitative data analyses and project management tasks associated with other e-cigarette monitoring projects, as assigned
• Develop and maintain topic area subject matter expertise in statistical analysis, data interpretation as well as tobacco control and cessation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or understanding of tobacco control and cessation efforts
• Ability to maintain data quality assurance and perform quality control checks of data analysis
• Experience conducting statistical analyses in Stata, or SAS or other statistical software
• Strong project management skills, including experience navigating competing priorities, meeting facilitation, problem solving and conflict management
• Sound judgment and maturity, exemplified by consistent professionalism in working with colleagues and diverse partners

Benefits

• Full suite of Benefits Available
• Starting Salary Range: $85,000 to $115,000, based on education and experience
• This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates