Remote Regional Technical Advisor

Summary

Join the CDC Foundation as a Regional Technical Advisor to support the implementation of projects monitoring e-cigarette and tobacco product sales, and provide technical assistance to state governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or higher) in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, public health or related field
• Minimum of five years of experience cleaning, managing and analyzing data. Experience with retail sales data or other types of raw data strongly preferred
• At least two years of experience working with regional collaboratives, state governmental and/or nongovernmental organizations
• Experience or understanding of tobacco control and cessation efforts
• Strong data management and analysis skills, including experience applying statistical techniques to nontraditional types of data. Ability to maintain data quality assurance and perform quality control checks of data analysis is strongly preferred
• Experience conducting statistical analyses in Stata strongly preferred but SAS or other statistical software
• 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 project management skills, including experience navigating competing priorities, meeting facilitation, problem solving and conflict management
• 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

• Lead state and regional data analysis and interpretation for states within assigned region using related statistical software packages
• Oversee data monitoring and data quality assurances for specified data set on a monthly and quarterly basis
• 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 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
• Develop and maintain topic area subject matter expertise in statistical analysis, data interpretation as well as tobacco control and cessation
• 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

Benefits

Fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates