Remote Business Analyst

Summary

Join the CDC Foundation as a Business Analyst to support the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned with the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI) and requires business intuition, analytical skills, and organizational abilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field (mathematics, statistics, economics, business analytics, information systems, finance, or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience as a business analyst, project, or implementation manager
• Demonstrated ability in analytical role (analysis, information science, data visualization or other relevant quantitative fields)
• Experience working with large datasets and reporting or visualization tools
• Ability to conceptualize data flows and business workflows
• Ability to tell a story using data
• Experience with analytics software (Power BI preferred)
• Ability to thrive in a project-based, team environment
• Experience working with spatial data, including ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, especially in using spatial tools with dashboards
• Experience with public health surveillance data

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Data Engineer and OEPH subject matter experts to outline data flows and create project plans for automated processes around dashboard and open data publications
• Contribute to shaping how data are transformed to facilitate analyses, creation of dashboards, and open data publications
• Analyze and visualize public health surveillance data under the guidance of the corresponding Epidemiologist or subject matter expert
• Develop interactive dashboards to visualize public health data for subjects including, but not limited to, infectious disease, substance use and overdose, and lead poisoning
• Apply a working knowledge of racial and health equity when creating public health visualizations
• Create documentation on resources used in creating and managing dashboards