Senior Project Coordinator/ Analyst Posted 2/6/2009
   
   

 

Position Content Document
Brown University Human Resources Department

 

Section 1: Identifying Information


Position Title:

Senior Project Coordinator/ Analyst

Date Prepared:

1/26/09

Reports To:

Dr. Orna Intrator

Prepared By:

Orna Intrator, PhD

Department:

Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research

Phone Ext.:

33579

Approvals

 

 Incumbent:

 

 Signature:

 

 Supervisor:

Orna Intrator

 Signature:

 

 

Section 2: Position Purpose


Briefly state below in one or two sentences the primary purpose of your position.

Position coordinates funded research projects involving the use of secondary data, including interacting with project investigators and collaborators internal and external to Brown, programmers and analysts. Position responsible to maintain timely progress of projects, conducts analyses of research data, and assists in the preparation of reports, manuscripts, and other project related technical writing.

 

Section 3: Responsibilities & End-Results


Briefly list below the three to five major responsibilities, functions and/or activities of your position (what you do); the supporting actions associated with each major responsibility (how you do what you do); the end-result of each responsibility (why you do what you do); and how much time you devote to it (as a percentage of your total job). Please place an asterisk next to each of the supporting actions which is an essential function of your position and make sure that the sum of all percentages equals 100%.

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Major Responsibilities, Supporting Actions and End-Results

 

 

35%

Major Responsibility:   Data Analysis.
Supporting Actions:    Assemble and link multi-layered, complex data sets to suit diverse research objectives.  Assess data quality, and devise strategies to address limitations of available data.  Operationalize study constructs, and validate empirical measures.  Recommend and choose analytic approaches appropriate to study aims.  Plan and implement quantitative analyses using state-of-the-art computational/statistical software programs.

End-Result:                     Production of complete and accurate data analyses and summaries.

 

 

35%

Major Responsibility:     Project Coordination.
Supporting Actions:      In accordance with project goals, and under the direction of the Principal Investigator, implements project design, establishes systems for communication with multiple project investigators, programmers, and analysts regarding project and status of work internal and external to Brown, coordinates meetings, monitors data acquisition, collection, processing and quality control. Oversight of study programmers and/or student assistants when hired to work on projects.
End-Result:                    Data management goals are met with project timelines met. Research data are of high-quality, internal and external collaborators are well-informed as to project’s status, the project is conducted in accordance with study protocol, and the Principal Investigator is informed regarding problems potentially affecting project completion and quality. 

 

 

30%

Major Responsibility:   Write reports, and assists in preparation of technical documents and manuscripts.
Supporting Actions:    Prepares research reports for internal and external organizations. Assists the Principal Investigator in writing technical documents, manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals, and assists in preparation of research presentations.

End-Result:                    Quality reports, presentations and contributions to manuscripts and to technical documents that do not require substantial revision by the Principal Investigator.
            

 

 

Section 4: Problems & Challenges


List below two to three problems and/or challenges encountered in performing your position.

 Meeting project timelines and goals in a timely fashion.

 Responding to multiple Principal Investigators and keeping track of multiple project timelines.

 Solving day-to-day management problems.

 

Section 5: Decision-Making


Describe below the authority held by your position and your freedom to take action in terms of which decisions you can make and which decisions depend on your advice.

Decisions You Are Free To Make

 Prioritize multiple research activities.

 Problem solve day to day project management problems as they arise.

 Manage multiple data bases and analytic files, solving day-to-day analytic problems, and selecting appropriate methodological approaches, implementing an analysis plan and writing report.

Decisions Which Depend On Your Advice

Problem solving project or data management issues that pose a threat to the validity of the research design.

 Problem solving project personnel issues.

 

Section 6: Dimensions


List below any quantitative data that provides measures of the size or scope of your position relative to the department and/or University (i.e., number of students counseled, outreach of newsletter, number of staff you support or employees supervised, budgets monitored, etc.).

 

    Coordinates projects that are national in scope and visibility and totaling over $2,000,000 in grant monies.

 

    Reports to as many as four Principal Investigators (supervisors)

 

    Handle Sensitive data from thousands to millions of people provided to the project under data use agreements.

Responsibilities are multi-faceted, including data management, programming, supervising staff, coordinating activities,  writing reports and manuscripts for publications.

Direct supervision of study programmers. Indirect supervision of other core-programming/ system staff of their activities relating to their work on the project.

 

Section 7: Relationships


List below the titles of individuals, departments and organizations with which you have the most frequent contact (including contacts both internal and external to Brown). Briefly describe why the relationship exists, the purpose of the contact and the nature of the interaction.

Most Frequent Contacts                                Nature of Interactions

 Principal Investigator

 Advise on project’s status and planning, consulting and collaborating on analyses, and on writing manuscripts and reports (at least weekly).

 

 Internal and External Collaborators

 Obtain and/or provide project information and obtain input on status of ongoing work (as needed).

 

 

Section 8: Job Qualifications


List below the skills, training, relevant experience or expertise and education necessary to perform your work. (Please try to think beyond your own personal experience and identify those skills which another person would need, paying special attention to team/group participation and customer relation skills, where applicable.)

Master’s degree and 3 years related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience AND, knowledge of health care system; knowledge of nursing home and hospice care preferred.

     Experience managing staff.

     Computer experience with excel, powerpoint, and access.

     Data management and analysis experience. Advanced knowledge of SAS required, knowledge of SPSS and Stata  preferred.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple tasks, set priorities, and meet deadlines.

 

Section 9: Organizational Relationships


List the titles of your immediate supervisor, next level supervisor, other positions reporting to your supervisor, and the positions reporting to you. For your reports, list several of the major areas of responsibility.

 

 

 

Next Level
Supervisor’s Title>

 

Director,  Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research

 

 

 

 

 

Your Immediate Supervisor’s Title>

 

Study Principal Investigator,                Assoc. Professor

 

 

 

 

 

Titles of Other Positions Reporting to Your Supervisor>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Titles of Positions
Reporting to You Directly or
 Indirectly (Dotted Line)>

Senior Programmer/ Analyst (direct)

MPH Student Programmer (direct)

Systems Manager (indirect)

Senior Programmer/ Analyst (indirect)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major Areas of Responsibility: Positions Reporting to You>

Data analysis using SAS

Create and manage large databases

Core study data construction and documentation

Core study data construction and documentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Section 10: Other Information


Indicate below any information you think would be helpful to someone trying to understand the nature, scope or purpose of your position, or use this space to specify any unusual or hazardous conditions associated with performing your job, if applicable.

This position is the central management position of several research projects, involving development of methodological protocols, interaction with collaborators and contractors, implementation of multiple site data acquisition and management procedures, and completion of primary data analyses and written reports. This position requires the ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities,  conduct and oversee data collection activities, manage various project staff, deal effectively and diplomatically with other investigators and/or health care providers, and analyze and synthesize study results.