Epidemiology Data Manager

Overview Goldbelt Professional Services specializes in providing expert resources for Public Health missions including scientific, technical, and administrative support from junior staff to high-level subject matter experts. Research and data driven, Goldbelt Professional Services’ experts create solutions customized to the client’s needs. Summary: Goldbelt Professional Services is seeking an Epidemiologist/Data Manager that will support the study of and factors contributing to the spread of diseases and work to find data-based solutions to impede their transmission. Responsibilities Essential Job Functions: Participate in multidisciplinary workgroups, planning meetings, scientific discussions, and special projects. Perform additional duties as assigned in support of CDC public health surveillance, laboratory, epidemiology, and program operations. Develop and manage project plans, work breakdown structures, timelines, milestones, and project schedules to ensure successful execution of multiple concurrent initiatives. Monitor project performance, identify risks and resource constraints, recommend mitigation strategies, and communicate project status to leadership and stakeholders. Produce recurring project status reports, executive summaries, quarterly reports, and final project closeout reports documenting accomplishments, challenges, and recommendations. Support resource planning, workload prioritization, and coordination across multidisciplinary teams. Coordinate project deliverables and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks. Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Support backlog development, prioritization, and refinement in collaboration with technical and scientific leads. Coach project teams on Agile principles and adapt Agile methodologies to support scientific and public health environments. Track sprint progress and maintain Agile boards, project dashboards, and backlog reports. Draft, review, revise, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), workflow documentation, communication protocols, and operational guidance. Coordinate technical review and stakeholder input during SOP development. Ensure documentation complies with CDC, HHS, federal, and organizational standards. Maintain document version control and centralized repositories. Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and standardize business processes. Qualifications Necessary Skills and Knowledge: Recommend modifications to surveillance systems based on independent evaluations to improve performance, usability, and data quality. Support federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies in wastewater surveillance, emerging infectious disease surveillance, and outbreak response activities. Manage wastewater surveillance systems, epidemiologic study databases, and other public health data systems, including data provisioning, receipt, transformation, validation, cleaning, migration, analysis, and long-term maintenance. Develop analysis plans and perform statistical and epidemiologic analyses of surveillance and study data using SAS, SQL, R, Python, PySpark, or other analytical tools. Analyze, interpret, and summarize epidemiologic findings for technical reports, scientific manuscripts, CDC websites, dashboards, presentations, leadership briefings, and peer-reviewed publications. Collaborate with CDC scientists, epidemiologists, laboratorians, informaticians, and data analysts to support surveillance activities and epidemiologic investigations. Ensure surveillance and epidemiologic study data quality by monitoring completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness while coordinating with internal and external partners to resolve data issues. Manage surveillance systems and provide user experience feedback to improve system functionality and data quality. Support compliance with CDC data governance, security, privacy, sharing, and release requirements. Maintain proficiency with surveillance systems, data management platforms, analytical software, and emerging technologies through ongoing professional development Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree Public Health, Computer Science, Statistics, Project Management or related field. 2+ years of experience in data analysis and/epidemiology. Exceptional collaborative skills with great judgment, initiative, and communication skills. Very organized with strong attention to detail and great problem-solving skills. Adapts easily to change and redirection with ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks. Excellent written and verbal communication in interpersonal exchanges. Demonstrated ability to work well independently, be solution-oriented, motivated, and committed to customer and company success. Advanced use of Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). Ability to navigate shifting commitments from fast-paced report generation to far-reaching project deadlines. Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in public health or health-related field. Previous experience in emergency preparedness is highly preferred. Previous experience working with CDC. Previous experience in wastewater-based epidemiology and surveillance Demonstrated experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications Pay and Benefits The salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually. At Goldbelt, we value and reward our team's dedication and hard work. We provide a competitive base salary commensurate with your qualifications and experience. As an employee, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company matching, tax-deferred savings options, supplementary benefits, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.