Business Analyst

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.

Job Highlights

· Location: Remote, must be based in the United States

· Salary Range: $76,500-$108,650 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.

· Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity

· Position End Date: June 30, 2025

Overview

• The Business Analyst will support the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements. Working within Austin Public Health’s Information Technology team the Business Analyst will collaborate across technical and non-technical teams to gather requirements, assure that requirements are correctly understood by developers, assure user training and change management, and facilitate alignment towards the planning and implementation of a public health data systems project. The Business Analyst will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Austin Public Health’s Information Technology team. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Interview staff members to gather information on health-related data, processes, and urgent needs.
• Create logical models and data dictionaries for each data set collected or created.
• Develop metadata records and process flowcharts.
• Identify major pain points with data quality and processes, providing a baseline of hours per week/month spent on each issue.
• Analyze and prepare findings for the team, focusing on areas needing immediate attention, quality improvements, standardization efforts, process automation, and pain relief.
• Collaborate with data architects to design the enterprise data model, transformations, and views for target data.
• Work with security analysts to design role-based access controls.
• Partner with developers, internal business analysts, and the data team to devise and prioritize process automation strategies and measures for the best return on investment.
• Develop a mitigation plan addressing the most urgent data quality and literacy discoveries.
• Create a roadmap to implement targeted data collection standards.
• Present the collected knowledge to staff for strategic planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field or commensurate work experience required. Advanced degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience as a business analyst, project, or implementation manager.
• Experience facilitating meetings and gathering information.
• Proven experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to translate user and technical requirements, leading through smooth and continuous delivery.
• Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, principles, and processes.
• Proficiency with using data to make decisions and gathering data insights to improve outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external partners, promoting collaboration among differing viewpoints.
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate problems and resolve solutions with technical and non-technical teams.
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills, enabling the development of productive working relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Special Notes

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.

We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.

The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.

Relocation expenses are not included.