Senior Health Data Scientist - Rockville, MD

Company: ICF International
Location: Rockville
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

JOB #R2001235

Senior Health Data Scientist - Rockville, MD ICF’s International Health and Development team seeks a Senior Health Data Scientist to support ICF’s malaria team. The Senior Health Data Scientist will work primarily on the Measure Malaria Project, Agency for International Development’s (USAID) technical assistance project for strengthening malaria endemic country systems to generate quality health information for decision making at local, national, and global levels. The malaria team provides technical support on measurements of malaria control interventions to President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)?supported countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The position will be based in Rockville, MD, USA.

Key Responsibilities The Senior Health Data Scientist will provide technical leadership on malaria data issues to the project. He or she will participate in various aspects of analytics capability development and implementation, including developing applications for curating, analyzing, and visualizing large and multiple data sets, and designing and developing analytical approaches, including machine learning and modeling to support malaria surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation (SME). Specific responsibilities include the following:

Design and develop data preparation components and processes that extract and transform data across multiple databases and sources

Conduct data exploration and identify approaches for model development, feature definition, and application of machine learning.

Gather, analyze, and interpret data from various sources

Develop dashboards and reports to assess malaria data quality and program performance, and support decision making

Conduct independent analysis to identify new insights on malaria data

Identify analytics approaches and develop analytical data sets

Contribute to malaria SME capacity-building efforts for national malaria control programs

Contribute to generating evidence to inform malaria SME at the global, regional, national, and subnational levels

Provide technical leadership through participation in global forums, research, and support to countries and implementing partners

Manage project activities, including coordinating activities, developing budgets, and providing technical oversight

Manage client (including USAID) relationships

Mentor and manage junior and mid-level staff members in data science and analytics

Contribute technical expertise to other projects and business development efforts as needed

Required Qualifications PhD/master’s in a relevant field, especially in a quantitative field (e.g., computer science, data science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, epidemiology)

Minimum of seven years of experience involving quantitative heath data handling, preferably infectious disease data

Good understanding of routine health data and health information systems in resource-limited countries

Understanding of data quality assessment tools and methods, and experience in addressing data quality issues related to routine health information data

Proficiency in analyzing and interpreting routine data, and effectively communicating results and findings

Solid knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools, techniques, and methods

Experience in advanced SQL researching and manipulating complex and large data sets

Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Java/C++

Practical experience in developing advanced statistical models, and knowledge of machine learning approaches and algorithms

Proficiency in statistical analysis and good knowledge of at least one statistical package (e.g., SPSS, R, Stata, SAS)

Good knowledge of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

Excellent English oral and written communication skills

Experience managing teams from diverse backgrounds and different locations

Ability to travel internationally up to 20% of time

Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, and ability to develop and manage partnerships

Desired Skills Proficiency in malaria epidemiology and SME

Knowledge of the DHIS2 platform

Experience in designing and implementing evaluations and assessments of health interventions

Experience in Bayesian statistics

Experience in project management

Excellent French oral and written communication skills

Previous experience in working with national malaria control programs, USAID-related projects, and PMI

Good track record in peer–reviewed publications

Working at ICF

Working at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth. If you’re seeking to make a difference in the world, visit www.icf.com/careers to find your next career. ICF—together for tomorrow.

ICF is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. (EOE – Minorities/Females/ Protected Veterans Status/Disability Status/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity)

Reasonable Accommodations are available for disabled veterans and applicants with disabilities in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email icfcareercenter@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more about non-discrimination: EEO is the law and Pay Transparency Statement .

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