Data Analyst

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is seeking to add an experienced Data Analyst to its team.

The Data Analyst is responsible for maintaining the ADEA Data Portal, the ADEA research data platform and for analyzing, reporting and ensuring data integrity as part of different ADEA research projects. This position is supervised by the Senior Vice President, Policy and Education Research in the Office of Educational Services (OES).

As a key member of the OES research team, you will be the technical lead for the maintenance of the ADEA Data Portal and the ADEA research data platform and will actively support ADEA’s research programmatic activities by fulfilling dental education data collection and analysis.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with external vendors to maintain and update the ADEA Data Portal including but not limited to adding years of data to current dashboards; making necessary updates to the dashboards and the data portal website to maintain functionality, data security and privacy; and creating any additional dashboards, as necessary.
• Provide technical assistance to members as they utilize the ADEA Data Portal.
• Maintain the ADEA research data platform up to date, by uploading additional years of data and/or datasets in the current database, ensuring the consistency of the database across the years, the functionality of the database and that documentation is complete and up to date.
• Conduct data collection through surveys, censuses, administrative data collections, data scraping, etc.
• Process, validate and analyze collected data.
• Code and create spreadsheet-based reports and interactive visual reports.
• Work with ADEA members directly to ensure updated contacts for the distribution of the data collection tools, the submission of their data in an efficient manner and the correction of missing/incorrectly input data.
• Collaborate with ADEA colleagues on automating data collection and processing and creating algorithms to make the analysis process more efficient.
• Communicate timely any issues encountered and provide suggestions for solutions.
• Work with colleagues across ADEA on tasks and projects, as necessary.
• Follow data privacy policies and comply with data protection regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.