• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Temporary
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 5
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building: MSPH -ARB
• Salary Range: $34.29-$34.29

Position Summary

The data assistant for CAMINANDO Mental Health, an interdisciplinary mixed-methods research project funded by the National Institute of Health and led by Dr. Orjuela-Grimm in the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman SPH. The project is a longitudinal study examining examine how different types and levels of exposure to violence and hunger/food insecurity pre, during, and post-migration intersect with protective and risk factors to shape teen mental health. The data assistant will be co-supervised by Dr. Orjuela-Grimm, Lorena Reis and Silvia Bhatt-Carreño.

The main duties and responsibilities include: assisting with the creation of a relational database for storing demographic and mental health data in Microsoft Access , assisting with the creation of a relational database for tracking data collection in Microsoft Access entering demographic and mental health data collected into the database, corresponding with data manager, PI and research team.

Responsibilities

• Assisting data manager in creating a new relational database (60%)
• Enter quantitative data (30%)
• Correspondence with research team (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in experience and education

Preferred Qualifications

     • Experience in relational database construction, specifically within Microsoft
     • Experience working in SQL, Python and SPSS

• Experience with Spanish-speaking adolescent populations and/or migrant populations
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) candidates are preferred.

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