Assistant Data Manager

Job Title: Assistant Data Manager

Grade: 15

Salary: $34,059 - $40,789

The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a part-time Assistant Data Manager position. The Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group (GPEG) in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, seeks a detail-oriented, analytical, and motivated Assistant Data Manager to join our research team. This role supports the life-cycle of public health study data, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility from collection through analysis. You will work closely with data managers, principal investigators, and field researchers to translate complex public health data into clean, well-structured datasets. As Assistant Data Manager, you will help coordinate research data using REDCap and SQL. The position includes planning and performing preliminary statistical analyses, and de-identifying and preparing data collected to be submitted to NIH Data Repositories.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Database Management & Design: Assist in building, testing, and maintaining secure data collection instruments and databases, primarily using REDCap.
• Data Cleaning & Quality Assurance: Develop and execute Python and SQL scripts to identify discrepancies, track missing data, and perform rigorous data cleaning and validation.
• Dataset Management: Merge, transform, and manage large, longitudinal datasets from diverse sources while maintaining meticulous version control and documentation (data dictionaries, codebooks).
• Compliance & Security: Ensure all data handling practices strictly adhere to institutional protocols, HIPAA regulations, and human subjects research protections.
• Team Collaboration: Assist in preparing data summaries for progress reports, grant applications and stakeholder presentations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: A Bachelor's degree in Public Health (Master's a Plus), Health Informatics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Technical Skills: At least (1) year of experience with REDCap (building forms, managing user rights, and data exports).
• At least (1) year of relational databases and SQL (writing queries, joins, and data extraction).
• Certification: Current CITI Program certification (Human Subjects Research / Good Clinical Practice).
• Core Competencies: At least (1) year of experience in data cleaning, dataset management, and maintaining data integrity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on longitudinal public health studies, community-based research, or multi-site clinical trials.
• Familiarity with additional statistical software (e.g., R, SAS, or Stata).
• Experience in handling sensitive or protected health information (PHI).
• Strong organizational skills with an exceptional eye for detail.

Work Location: 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032

To Apply: Submit an application through our website at https://rfmh.applicantpro.com/jobs/. Please note only applications submitted through our website will be considered.

The Mission of the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. RFMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, RFMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring that RFMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. RFMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

The Research Foundation is a private not-for-profit corporation and is not an agency or instrumentality of the State of New York. Employees of the Research Foundation are not state employees, do not participate in any state retirement system, and do not receive state fringe benefits. Excellent Benefits Package. Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer - Disabled/Veteran, 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) compliant.