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Posted: 04-May-23
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 108974-en_US
The Merkin Peripheral Neuropathy and Nerve Regeneration Center is recruiting a Research Data Analyst to lead single cell and bulk RNA sequencing analytics. The Analyst will be active in the data pre-processing stages as well as analysis and interpretation of results. The Analyst will be involved in designing and developing analysis plans to address biological hypotheses in our bank of existing and ongoing single cell and bulk RNA sequencing data, acquired from animal models of neuropathies and nerve injury. Will interact daily with scientists within the center. This position requires collaboration with scientific investigators in research/study design, data analysis plans, algorithm development, grant applications, and preparation of presentations and publications. Will work independently and in collaboration with faculty and research scientists to solve problems posed by the laboratory investigators along the study design, data generation, collection and management process.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Plan data management including determining type, format of data and types of documentation, considering privacy, confidentiality and other ethical issues.
- Facilitate acquisition of single cell sequencing data from core facilities.
- Clean data by coding missing data, fixing or deleting miscoded data, transforming variables into more useful formats, and annotating the data in proper way, use descriptive. statistics to help characterize and summarize the data.
- Generate plots representing dimensionality reduction.
- Collaborate with scientific investigators in Merkin PNNR to propose ideas for new projects, design research, develop data plan, and prepare analyses with general direction from investigators.
- Apply different technical approaches to visualize the data and prepare publication-quality tables and graphs based on valid analysis.
- Lead or participate actively in the team responsible for designing and validating analysis data sets, programs, and statistical output products.
- Identify potential data problems from analytic queries and bring them to the attention of the team.
- Demonstrate understanding of high dimensional data collection processes and data sets and share knowledge with collaborators.
- Collaborate closely with investigators, project managers, and other team leadership to ensure that research study or project results and conclusions are presented accurately and without bias.
- Demonstrate progress in ability to multi-task and manage time spent working with individual faculty members and on specific projects.
- Participates in regularly schedule meetings with study investigators and team.
- Prepares progress reports as needed. Maintain appropriate systems for data organization.
- Assure data quality for documentation and dissemination of data.
- Conduct and track specific activities to accomplish project goals, including evaluating and reporting data and documenting analytic procedures.
- Able to work collaboratively in a team environment with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation.
Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Ability to use the internet and web-based scholarly search engines.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.
- Three years related experience.
- Experience with computers and servers and knowledge of Linux/UNIX as well as other common operating systems such as Mac OS and Windows is necessary.
- Experience in analyzing genomic data.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related field is preferred.
- Experience with server configuration and troubleshooting preferred.
- Experience with code development, optimization, and testing.
Classified Title: Research Data Analyst
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MC
Starting Salary Range: $46,560-$64,100-$81,650 Annually (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM Neuro Neuromuscular
Personnel area: School of Medicine
Total Rewards
The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/
Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:
JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.
**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.
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