Data Analyst, Health Surveillance

3 months ago

Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Data Analyst, Health Surveillance**

BC Centre for Disease Control

Vancouver, BC

Are you ready to make a difference? The BC Centre for Disease Control, a dynamic Provincial Health Services Authority program, seeks passionate individuals to join us in providing provincial and national leadership in disease surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention, and consultation.

At our core, we aim to cultivate vibrant communities where everyone can achieve optimal health and well-being—right where they live, work, learn, and play.

The Data Analyst, working within a designated service line, provides data management and maintenance services, ensures quality and integrity of data for the various information systems, performs regular analysis of data, and supports information system use by departmental staff. The Data Analyst reports to the Coordinator for Data Standards and Integration, and has a functional relationship to the service line the Analyst is assigned to.

**What you’ll do**
- Perform data management and preparation activities, including data extraction, transformation, and documentation.
- Develop and maintain data collection and recording systems such as databases, spreadsheets, and web-sites, including designing ad hoc reports.
- Write computer code and data queries to capture and edit data, and/or liaises with information systems department for same.
- Create analytic reporting tools to allow internal and external users to analyze data.
- Receive and respond to ongoing requests to evaluate data, systems, processes and procedures.
- Automate routine data management tasks using standard programming tools.
- Perform descriptive analyses and produces summaries and analytical reports using statistical software and coding, identifying all data limitations that apply.
- Identify issues, trends, and developments.
- Communicate findings to Centre staff and external stakeholders at the local, provincial and federal level.
- Automate routine analyses using standard programming tools.
- Monitor data quality in the information systems like the Public Health Information System and disease databases, proactively identify and communicate anomalies that indicate data quality issues, and ensure that data used for analysis purposes or distributed to stakeholders is of the highest quality possible.
- Follow up with regional health authorities on missing, erroneous, and duplicate data to achieve high quality data.
- Correct data errors in a timely manner.
- Document processes for these procedures.

**What you bring**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Health Information Science or Computer Science or equivalent.
- Three (3) years’ experience as a data analyst/scientist, preferably in community health and/or the health information field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

You also have the ability to:

- Write data management and analysis programs using data programming tools such as SAS or R.
- Manage and querying data in large relational or multidimensional databases and data warehouses an asset.
- Create data visualizations.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Operate related equipment
- Carry out the duties of the position.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Commitment to develop knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents - including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study - and how they intersect across the health care system.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).

**What we bring**

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too - offering health, wellness, development programs to support you - at work and at home.
- Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations - offering vast opportunities for growth and development.
- Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
- PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may

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