What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Manager II - Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative position at University of Kansas Medical Center?
Department
SOM Wichita Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Position Title
Data Manager II - Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative
Job Family Group
Professional Staff
Job Description Summary
The Data Manager for the Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative leads multi hub data coordination and serves as the operational steward for platform generated utilization, symptom, and safety data. This role builds and maintains reliable data pipelines and validation processes, ensures secure transfers and governance, and supports dashboards and continuous quality improvement (CQI) cycles. The Data Manager partners with evaluation, implementation, and technical teams to deliver accurate, timely reporting and contributes to CMS facing deliverables in alignment with regulatory and program requirements.
The Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative is a grant funded, statewide, evidence-based digital therapeutic strategy designed to expand access to treatment for depression, substance use disorders (SUD) and other mental disorders in rural Kansas. The initiative deploys clinically validated computerized mental health interventions supported by community-based facilitation and integrated into rural primary care, behavioral health, and community settings.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
Work Environment
Work Experience:
Preferred Qualifications
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
Employee Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Rate Type
Salary
Compensation Statement
The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.
Pay Range
$80,600.00 - $120,900.00
Minimum
$80,600.00
Midpoint
$100,800.00
Maximum
$120,900.00
SOM Wichita Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Position Title
Data Manager II - Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative
Job Family Group
Professional Staff
Job Description Summary
The Data Manager for the Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative leads multi hub data coordination and serves as the operational steward for platform generated utilization, symptom, and safety data. This role builds and maintains reliable data pipelines and validation processes, ensures secure transfers and governance, and supports dashboards and continuous quality improvement (CQI) cycles. The Data Manager partners with evaluation, implementation, and technical teams to deliver accurate, timely reporting and contributes to CMS facing deliverables in alignment with regulatory and program requirements.
The Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative is a grant funded, statewide, evidence-based digital therapeutic strategy designed to expand access to treatment for depression, substance use disorders (SUD) and other mental disorders in rural Kansas. The initiative deploys clinically validated computerized mental health interventions supported by community-based facilitation and integrated into rural primary care, behavioral health, and community settings.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
- Multi-hub data coordination
- Platform-generated utilization, symptom, and safety data
- Data quality checks and validation
- Secure data transfers and governance
- Supporting dashboards and CQI cycles
- CMS-facing reporting support
Work Environment
- Hybrid may be available
Work Experience:
- Nine (9) years of experience in data management, data engineering, or analytics operations supporting multi‑source datasets. Education may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.
- Hands‑on experience with data quality frameworks, validation scripting (e.g., SQL, Python), and documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in data science, information systems, public health, statistics, computer science, or related field.
- Experience with health research or healthcare/public health, platform‑generated data, and safety/incident datasets.
- Familiarity with HIPAA/PHI, IRB/DUA processes, and CMS reporting structures.
- Experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and workflow/orchestration (e.g., SQL jobs, Airflow).
- Exposure to data modeling, metadata management, and version control (e.g., Git).
- Experience supporting CQI, quality dashboards, or performance improvement initiatives.
- Experience with data transfer methods.
- Experience with access control.
- Experience with data governance practices.
- Experience with technical data translation.
- Experience with data governance.
- Experience with data quality engineering & validation.
- Experience with secure data transfer.
- Communication
- Organization
- Collaboration
- Problem solving
- Detail oriented
- Accountability
- Time Management
- Resume/CV
- Cover Letter
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
Employee Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
Rate Type
Salary
Compensation Statement
The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.
Pay Range
$80,600.00 - $120,900.00
Minimum
$80,600.00
Midpoint
$100,800.00
Maximum
$120,900.00
Salary : $80,600 - $120,900