Position Summary:

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH), through its newly created Division of COVID-19 Containment - is responsible for monitoring COVID-19!SARS- CoV-2 exposure within Philadelphia and determining appropriate mitigation strategies. In order to do this, PDPH will be expanding the City’s surveillance and detection capabilities to ensure that cases of COVID-19 in Philadelphia residents are quickly identified and investigated. This involves working closely with laboratories and healthcare institutions to increase access to rapid testing and building systems that enable consistent data sharing among relevant partners.

The Contract Tracing Data Manager will provide support to case investigation and contact tracing teams to ensure that information received from interviews and automated follow-up with persons who have come into close contact with a COVID-19 infected individual is entered into the appropriate database. The Contact Tracing Data Manager will be responsible for ensuring that all data we receive from case investigation and contact tracing is available for staff on the surveillance &, investigation team to utilize and will support analyses and evaluation efforts to understand program effectiveness.

This position is full-time, Monday through Friday. with occasional work after hours and on weekends to support Program activities. The position Is grant funded for a minimum of one (1) year. Continuation of the position is dependent on sustained grant funding.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Regularly assess and clean data received from e-surveillance mechanisms to assure completeness, timeliness and accuracy of collected information
• Work with teams of contact tracers to manage qualitative data received from interviews with contacts of confirmed cases
• Utilize web-based platforms to ensure that electronic reporting of symptoms is uploaded into databases
• Provide trainings to contact tracers on utilization of contact tracing technology and troubleshoot any issues they are experiencing with this technology
• Clean data to ensure that reports of positive cases, symptomatic individuals or other high-risk exposures are reported to an individual for direct follow-up
• Provide basic IT support to contact tracing teams when necessary and resolve issues that may arise with web-based technologies
• Work with other data managers in the Division to ensure that you are following a uniform protocol for data entry
• Design and perform data analysis on specific analytic projects

Skills Required:

• Excellent communication and organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Computer skills are necessary and should include the ability to access and navigate various databases and software programs following training

Education and Experience:

• Completion of Bachelor’s degree, preferably in public health, statistics, computer science, or another health science
• Experience with data management software (MS Access, MS Excel, REDCap), survey tools (Qualtrics) and SMS platforms (Mosio).
• One year of work or educational experience requiring data management and/or data analysis preferred
• Experience using SAS or R software or other statistical software is preferred — or other statistical analysis software
• Demonstrated interest in public health, epidemiology, or statistics

Equal Opportunity Employment:

PMHCC, Inc. is committed to equal opportunity. It is our policy to support equal employment for all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual preferences, age, national origin, disability, behavioral health status, military status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Americans with Disabilities Act:

Employees as well as applicants who are currently, or become disabled, must be able to perform (he functions of the job with either reasonable accommodation or unaided. PMHCC, Inc. will examine reasonable accommodations on a case by case basis in accordance with the law.