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Summary

The Office of Medical Student Education (OMSE) is seeking an Education Database Administrator to join our Evaluation & Assessment (E&A) Unit. This position will be key to ensuring our education program data are properly stored, documented, and accessible to support both operational needs and research across OMSE, particularly those related to assessment (e.g. online quizzes and exams), curriculum evaluation (e.g. course and teaching evaluations), learner recruitment and residency match outcomes, program quality improvement, and medical education scholarship. The Data Manager will be responsible for organizing, coordinating, and sharing data across the E&A unit portfolio, including data depicting medical student feedback and learner academic trajectory performance across the medical school curriculum. This position will work to automate various data pipelines as well as produce reports summarizing learner engagement, experience, and academic trajectory. This position will report to the Director of Evaluation & Assessment.

Why Join Michigan Medicine?

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in . Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30, employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world?s most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2 : 1 Match on retirement savings

Responsibilities

1. Manage data. Inspect, clean, and transform data. Run database queries and provide datasets to E&A team members, OMSE leadership, and unit partners.

2. Design and maintain large data sets. Merge files, restructure and recode variables, assign labels and values, check for errors, create codebooks, create and update data set documentation, and other related technical tasks.

3. Apply systems knowledge to inform business intelligence.  Help project teams understand the range of data available to inform the design and development of educational experiences / projects, program evaluation, and scholarship.

4. Use and apply continuous quality improvement approaches to education data systems. Develop, streamline, error-proof, and automate processes for managing data and producing reports

5. Contribute to academic operations and unit scholarship.  Prepare and present reports to OMSE teammates, faculty educators and innovators, and academic governance and accreditation committees.

6. Manage and review data access . Act as a consultant between E&A and various outside stakeholders, including research partners, making sense of partner data needs and facilitating secure access to data sets.

7. Support user experience.  Provide support for end-users of software applications and learning experiences to explain data collection practices and specific data variables.

8. Institutional Committees and Service.  Participate with UMMS Data Governance committees and contribute to development of standardized data definitions across the medical education continuum.

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Desired Qualifications

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile / remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the