OPS BIOLOGICAL SCIENTIST IV

OPS BIOLOGICAL SCIENTIST IV - 64906042 This is a full-time, in-office position. This position requires you to work on site at one of our facilities located throughout Broward County. This is an OPS (Other Personal Services) position and as such no paid time off is offered. Health benefits will be offered for full-time employment. OPS employees are eligible to participate in a deferred compensation plan. The Drug Overdose Surveillance Epidemiologist leads overdose morbidity and mortality surveillance activities, maintains REDCap abstraction workflows, and develops and updates dashboards tracking EMS and hospital encounters. This role monitors ESSENCE-FL and Biospatial daily, responds to spike alerts, prepares analytic summaries, and supports statewide and CDC reporting requirements. Create and revise REDCap data collection instruments used for hospital and EMS abstraction. Manage and validate surveillance datasets, ensuring accuracy and completeness. Monitor ESSENCE-FL and Biospatial daily for alerts; conduct case abstraction and prepare visualizations and reports when alerts occur. Export ESSENCE-FL queries and import Biospatial EMS encounter data into REDCap. Maintain and update dashboards for EMS encounters, hospital encounters, and spike activity. Produce weekly and monthly abstraction performance metrics. Develop presentations for internal and external partners, including CDC meetings. Knowledge to investigate every opioid related chief complaint and spikes reported through ESSENCE. Knowledge of how to initiate case investigations for reported diseases as directed, including field investigations and appropriate notifications. Ability to contribute to the development and dissemination of local opioid related reports to public health partners. Ability to prepare and deliver engaging oral and written presentations to health department staff and community partners. Knowledge to lead data reporting for the OD2A program and provide technical assistance to Broward County's 16 acute care hospitals and 4 freestanding emergency departments participating in ESSENCE enhancements. Ability to develop GIS mapping based on surveillance data to support epidemiological analysis. Ability to maintain and update active Tableau dashboards. Ability to serve as the lead ESSENCE and GIS user for the epidemiology section, supporting internal and external partners. Ability to participate in teleconferences, EpiCom, and other meetings to share local, regional, and state information. Ability to ensure effective health information management across multiple hospitals. Ability to maintain experience with HIPAA and privacy/security of medical records. Ability to maintain catalog medical records as required. Collaborate with community healthcare providers to ensure compliance with communicable disease reporting requirements. Knowledge to create and revise data collection instruments as needed. Knowledge to conduct data quality assurance for initiatives across the program. Master's degree in biostatistics, statistics, data science/analytics, public health with a quantitative concentration, or a closely related field with advanced statistical coursework. Experience performing data analysis using R, Python, SAS, SQL, Tableau, or Power BI. Experience managing datasets, including data cleaning and data validation. Experience developing dashboards or visual data displays. Experience presenting data findings to internal or external audiences. Experience preparing written analytic reports, summaries, or briefs. Experience creating or revising data collection instruments.