Methodologist Ii

**Responsibilities**:

- Handle incoming data requests: meeting with stakeholders, understanding requirements, querying data repositories, cleaning and transforming data, conducting exploratory and statistical analyses, and producing meaningful reports and visualizations.
- Support the design and develop of key performance indicators, meaningful reports, presentations, and data visualizations for the Department of Medicine
- Document work and create user support tools using standard practice guidelines.
- Take part in Analytics team initiatives to enhance our information & analytical knowledge base, standards of practice, and reporting solutions.

**Basic Requirements (Education/Experience)**:

- MSc in Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Public Health, or related field
- Data management programming experience (e.g. SQL, SAS)
- Experience with statistical analysis tools (e.g. SAS, R)
- Experience building dashboards and data visualizations using Excel, PowerBI, or similar tools.
- Experience analyzing healthcare or other large data.
- Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Aptitude for research methodology and attention to detail
- Comfortable learning and using technology, including Office365 products.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Previous project management experience
- Previous healthcare analytical experience or experience working with electronic healthcare system data or healthcare coded data (e.g. ICD/CCI coding)
- Knowledge of analytic methods applied to health services research.
- Demonstrated initiative in the workplace.

**Contract Details**:
All positions are offered as two-year contracts to start with the intention of renewal. The salary range for the Methodologist II position is $33.953 - $48.957/hr.?
Salary will be commensurate with skills, education, and experience. Employees will be entitled to medical, dental, and pension benefits in addition to 3 weeks paid vacation per annum.

**Comments to Applicant**:
Please submit a focused cover letter and curriculum vitae, in a single PDF using the name convention “First Name Last Name.pdf” to:
**Contact Info**:
Name: Deanna Rothwell
Title: Director, Analytics, The Ottawa Hospital and Senior Investigator, OHRI
c/o Nadea Saikaley
Program: Clinical Epidemiology
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Address: Civic Campus, 1053 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4E9
- The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is committed to building and sustaining a welcoming and supportive culture that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion for trainees, researchers, and staff. We are devoted to identifying and removing barriers that limit equitable access to opportunities within our organization. The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute strongly supports initiatives that encourage the participation of all groups, in particular the four groups defined in the Employment Equity Act (women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities)._
- We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those invited for an interview will be contacted. The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is an equal-opportunity employer. Upon request, accommodations due to a disability are available throughout the selection process._