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Research and Data Analyst

Association of American Medical Colleges
403(b), remote work
United States, D.C., Washington
655 K St Nw Ste 100 (Show on map)
Aug 27, 2025
Who We Are: The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care by supporting the entire spectrum of medical education, medical research, and patient care conducted by our member institutions. We are dedicated to the communities we serve and steadfast in our goal to improve the health of all. At the AAMC, we are committed to supporting our employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to promote well-being, professional growth, and work-life balance. Highlights include: Remote Work - Fully remote work available for most positions Retirement Savings - Generous 403(b) employer contributions and financial wellness resources, including professional financial advising. Health & Wellness Perks - Fitness and bicycle subsidies, on-site and virtual wellness programs (live yoga, meditation, mental health webinars, flu shot clinics, and more) Support & Family Care - Employer paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and back-up care options for children, adults, elders, and even pets Additional information can be found on our website. Why us, why now? This position is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and reporting of Faculty Roster data about members and constituents, including data about faculty retention rates, faculty promotion rates, and faculty counts across department classification, degrees, and ranks. In addition, the position is responsible for developing and maintaining documentation for assigned data assets, such as who members or constituents have participated in a given data asset, as well as the contact information for who is supposed to receive the data collection and/or the corresponding reports. The position collaborates and consults with internal and external partners in the design, implementation, and optimization of Faculty Roster data collection and reporting systems. Moreover, the position collects utilization metrics, quality metrics, FTE metrics, financial metrics, and other metrics for use in continuous improvement processes. The data assets and systems related to this position's responsibilities include but are not limited to the Faculty Roster web-based data collection, data management, and data reporting system and associated special report services, with other data assets and systems in which the position may assisting including US Medical School Faculty Report, US Medical School Faculty Trends, Dean Background Survey, and the interactive graphic U.S. Medical School Deans by Dean Type and Race/Ethnicity (as well as other data assets and systems across the Data Operations and Services team as assigned). How will you make an impact? Deliver high-quality and timely execution of assigned data collections and reports Develop, implement, and maintain documentation and programming related to the production of data collections, standard reports, research reports, external/internal ad hoc reports, and other analytical offerings, including: Writing office manuals, runbooks, and similar materials that describe the procedures for running data collection and data reporting services. Monitoring the soundness, timeliness, impactful, efficiency, and security of data collection and data reporting services. As appropriate, producing and maintaining programming and databases for collecting data, importing data, managing data, checking data, analyzing data, reporting data, and distributing data, using tools such as SQL, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, VBA, Python, HTML, and JavaScript. As appropriate, collaborating with IT colleagues when a data collection tool or data reporting tool is an IT-maintained application or when data collections and their associated analytical offerings have some other intersection with IT services. Serve as a Data Asset Owner for data assets, obtaining all needed Data Asset Owner training and serving in a way that is consistent with AAMC policies and procedures, including: Determining the appropriate level of internal and external access to data assets. Reviewing drafts of articles, papers, presentations, and other analytical offerings for the accuracy of data analysis and for the accuracy of data interpretation. Conforming to policies and procedures, including but not limited: Survey and Research Central (guidance around Human Subjects Research Protection Program issues, IRB issues, and Data Collection/Research Registration issues); OCOMM (guidance around publishing standards and AAMC messaging on policy and advocacy issues); Legal (guidance around privacy issues and anti-trust issues); IT (guidance around information security issues and approved technology for data collection, management, and reporting). Provide day-to-day support to data collection participants, report recipients, and other users with log-in issues, content questions, reminders, extensions, quality control checks, or similar operational concerns. Contribute to unit and AAMC process improvement and training related to overall data collection and reporting: Consult with colleagues and constituents (including, but not limited to, data respondents, report users, subject matter experts, researchers, and IT staff) on ways to enhance data collections, standard reports, research reports, external/internal ad hoc reports, and other analytical offerings, as required. Contribute to IT initiatives related to infrastructure changes, data access and security, and system modernizations and updates, as required. Represent the unit, the cluster, and the AAMC data community in internal and external discussions around data collection and data reporting issues, as required. Maintain accurate financial and timekeeping records to support ongoing prioritization and impact analyses as required for assigned data assets Apply knowledge to solve problems and to identify root causes; be a good steward of AAMC time and resources; escalate potential issues early enough to ensure that collaboration with other colleagues will result in on-time, high-quality, impactful, efficient, and secure data services. Help with other data assets and their associated analytical offerings, as required. What will you bring to the role? Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Preferred: A master's degree or doctoral degree would be preferred, with coursework in quantitative reasoning and qualitative reasoning. Courses of study might include topics such as computer programming, data analysis, data visualizations, economics, information systems, mathematics, psychometrics, research and evaluation, sociology, statistics, survey construction, survey sampling, and related topics. 3-5 years of related work experience Experience with quantitative, qualitative, and logical reasoning; self-directed knowledge acquisition and application; programming, database design, data security, data standards, data processing, relational databases, data instrument construction, data visualization, and report writing; collaborative working environments; time management, resource management, quality control, and continuous quality improvement. Experience in data collection, analysis, and reporting in small to large organizations where data is critical to delivering on strategy, mission, and services to members and constituents Skill in producing and maintaining programming and databases for collecting data, importing data, managing data, checking data, linking data, analyzing data, reporting data, and distributing data, using tools such as SQL, PL/SQL, PostgresSQL, VBA, Python, HTML, HighCharts, JavaScript, and Verint. Skilled in collaboration tools such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams, and cloud platforms such as Oracle and AWS. Working knowledge of association management systems is a plus. Remote Work Eligibility This position is eligible for remote work in the contiguous US Compensation Grade Range $74,545.00-$87,700.00 Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors may include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, as well as internal equity, market, and business considerations. If a bachelor's degree is required, related work experience may be substituted in some positions. One year of college course work at an accredited institution is equivalent to one year of related work experience. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The AAMC is committed to the policy of an equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, career advancement, and all other personnel practices. The AAMC will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, past or current military service, or any other legally protected characteristic. Please attach a resume as part of the application process. It is important that files DO NOT include periods ( . ) within the file name. BROWSER REQUIREMENTS: Applications must be submitted using Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, orMicrosoft Edge.