Research Coordinator (Epi Studies)
The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to perform complex technical and advisory functions to evaluate quality, completeness, and validity of cancer data, to identify program problems and prepare methods to alleviate the problems. Under general direction, carries out scientific and administrative responsibilities and ensures scientific quality of the Illinois State Cancer Registry research activities. Plans, develops, designs, supervises and conducts highly technical planning and analytical management studies of highly complex scientific research projects in the field of cancer epidemiology. Using scientific and epidemiologic approaches, performs and coordinates scientific investigations and specialized surveillance activities using data from the Illinois State Cancer Registry and other available databases from other institutions or agencies. Supervises, reviews, evaluates, and ensures quality of work of cancer research staff. Assists program staff in the use of epidemiologic data and research findings in planning and program development. Serves as Research Coordinator for the Research Section of the Illinois State Cancer Registry, Division of Epidemiologic Studies.
Job Responsibilities
- Develops, plans, designs, implements, and conducts highly complex agency-wide scientific research plans and studies using the Illinois State Cancer Registry database and coordinates special studies of the possible causal relationships of hazardous toxic substances and human health effects.
- Serves as working supervisor; assigns and reviews work.
- Coordinates the surveillance activities of the registry programs pertaining to cancer research projects.
- Confers with manager of the Illinois State Cancer Registry, in planning epidemiologic uses of the registry data.
- Coordinates the planning and preparation for analyses of registry data for official reports and scientific publications.
- Coordinates responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Requires possession of a Bachelor’s degree in epidemiology, demography, bio-statistics, sociology, psychology, economics or related social science research field from an accredited university.
2. Requires four years professional experience in applied epidemiology, biostatistics, or in population, or a related research field.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Masters (MPH, MS, MA) or Doctoral degree (Ph.D., Dr. Ph., ScD) from an accredited university in a population science (epidemiology, public health, demography), or a research science with strong measurement focus and an emphasis on populations.
2. Three years professional experience in conducting surveillance and data analyses to identify the magnitude of community health problems, duration, trends, location and populations at risk using statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, SUDANN, STATA, or EpiInfo.
3. Two years experience coordinating scientific investigations and research projects in the field of applied epidemiology, biostatistics, population studies, or a related research field.
4. Two years experience creating reports and scientific publications.
5. One-year supervisory experience.
Work Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 to 5:00
Work Location: 535 W Jefferson St Springfield, IL 62702-5076
Agency Contact Email: DPH.HRApplications@illinois.gov
Phone #: 217-785-2031