Epidemiology Data Manager

About the Role

Goldbelt Professional Services is seeking an Epidemiologist/Data Manager to support the study of factors contributing to the spread of diseases and develop data-based solutions to impede their transmission. This role involves participation in multidisciplinary workgroups, planning meetings, scientific discussions, and special projects in support of CDC public health surveillance, laboratory, epidemiology, and program operations.

Responsibilities

• Participate in multidisciplinary workgroups, planning meetings, scientific discussions, and special projects.
• Develop and manage project plans, work breakdown structures, timelines, milestones, and project schedules for 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.
• Recommend modifications to surveillance systems 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 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.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Computer Science, Statistics, Project Management, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis and/or epidemiology.
• Exceptional collaborative skills with strong judgment, initiative, and communication skills.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to change and redirection while prioritizing and balancing multiple tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in interpersonal exchanges.
• Demonstrated ability to work 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.
• Previous experience working with CDC.
• Previous experience in wastewater-based epidemiology and surveillance.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to peer-reviewed publications.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Tax-deferred savings options.
• Supplementary benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.