Clinical Data Manager

The Helmer Informatics Lab, affiliated with the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, is seeking a Data Manager with a bachelor’s degree, for a full-time position managing and supporting a wide variety of primarily imaging-based medical and scientific studies. The Data Manager will be working with a talented multidisciplinary team of programmers, web developers, and data analysts. This position requires demonstrated competency in working with data, creating reports and visualizations, and managing data-related requests by study staff. This position also requires maturity, ability to work independently, attention to detail, and excellent organizational and communication (including written) skills. The successful applicant must be able to perform detail-oriented work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and balance multiple projects.

The projects served by the Lab all focus on knowledge discovery in the medical domain, from discovering new biomarkers to the testing of new interventions. These projects have a public web presence and serve both to make informational content available to the public as well as act as a front end for a web-based infrastructure for the management, movement, curation, and sharing of a large, heterogeneous data sets. The goal of several of these projects is to provide data to the larger scientific community so that the data may be reused, and new knowledge generated.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to high-visibility scientific projects with the potential for high impact on patient care in a collegial, academic work environment, the opportunity to enhance a work portfolio, and the opportunity to continuously learn new skills.

• Gather application requirements from end users and transmit those requirements to the programming staff
• Create data reports and visualizations to assist Recruitment and Retention Project Manager in tracking site and study progress (involves working with databases)
• Work with end users to resolve issues through direct assistance or by triaging issues
• Work with PI to identify workflow and pipeline issues
• Create and edit documentation
• Track team progress on project deliverables
• Contribute to documents, including budgets, for project reporting requirements
• Attend and contribute to project meetings

• Demonstrated expertise with the following:
  • Databases (NoSQL preferred)
  • Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Ability to work on multiple projects and task switch as required
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
• Strong interpersonal and time management skills
• Demonstrate an eagerness to learn
• English language fluency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

EDUCATION:

Required: Bachelor's Degree

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience of working with and managing data in a team environment is preferred.
• Experience in working with end users is preferred.
• Required: 2 years of prior experience.