Data Analyst

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is seeking to add an experienced Data Analyst to our team of high-performing professionals.

The Data Analyst is responsible for gathering, analyzing, reporting, and ensuring data integrity across ADEA data and associated platforms to support ADEA’s Innovation, Clinical Education and Public Health agenda. 

Primary Responsibilities 

The Data Analyst will support the research programmatic activities of ADEA by fulfilling duties related to higher education and oral health data collection and analysis. This includes the following components: 

• Conduct data collection, validation, analysis, and interpretation for policy and institutional research projects and research requests.  

• Identify, collect, clean, and analyze data through diverse mechanisms, including surveys, censuses, administrative data collections, data scraping and publicly available sources, among others. 

• Administer ADEA surveys and conduct research in collaboration with other staff as needed. 

• Analyze ADEA survey data alongside information from other sources using appropriate statistical methods and interpret the results to derive relevant insights. 

• Collaborate with colleagues on automating data collection, processing and developing algorithms to make the analysis process more efficient. 

• Provide technical assistance to members as they design and deploy ADEA surveys. 

• Monitor, track, and respond to data requests from both internal and external audiences. 

• Work with colleagues across ADEA on tasks and projects, as necessary. 

• Adhere to data privacy policies and ensure compliance with data protection regulations. 

• Manage day-to-day business operations, including supporting ongoing research projects in collaboration with project leaders, other organizational units, and external parties according to the protocol, guidelines and expectations set forth by the Chief of Innovation, Clinical Education and Public Health (ICEPH) Officer and ADEA leadership.  

• Ensure that institutional and departmental policies and guidelines are followed for all member-related requests, data preparations, published materials, and presentations, . 

• Facilitate clear, efficient, and inclusive communication between the Chief and the team. Support a productive team environment that adheres to established supervisory protocols.  

• Collaborate with the Chief to complete any additional tasks as assigned.. 

• Other job-related duties as assigned. 

• A bachelor's degree and five years of analytical and survey software experience; or a master's degree and three years of relevant experience. 

• Dental education/medical education institutional research preferred.  

• Qualtrics (or comparable online survey platform) skills required, including extensive logic implementation through embedded fields and survey flow, display and skip logic, as well as loop and merge, setting up email and contact list triggers. 

• Proficiency in statistical software (preferably R or Python), as well as MS Excel, is required. 

• SPSS, SQL knowledge preferred. 

• Working knowledge of statistics required. 

• Knowledge of public health and epidemiology is preferred, including sufficient understanding to effectively interpret analytical results, extract meaningful insights from data, and draw relevant conclusions. 

• Familiarity with data management, data cleaning, and data validation processes. 

• Attention to detail and meticulous focus on time-sensitive materials and activities. 

• Ability to keep a variety of tasks on time.  

• Desire to contribute daily within a highly collaborative project team environment that is deadline-driven.  

• Ability to work effectively in a diverse team environment and the ability to collaborate well with others from different backgrounds. 

• Ability to work at ADEA’s DC office on a hybrid basis and as needed. The current hybrid schedule is four days per week onsite at DC office, Monday through Thursday and can work from home on Fridays. 

This position's salary range is $69,000 to $78,000. In addition to a rewarding and purposeful mission, ADEA offers you a collaborative team environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits, including health, vision, dental and life insurance, wellness benefits, a 35-hour work week, generous paid leave and a 403(b) retirement plan with 10% employer contribution. Our office is conveniently located across from the Washington Convention Center, near shopping, restaurants and the Red and Green Line Metro Stations. 

For more information and to apply online, visit www.adea.org.

The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is The Voice of Dental Education. Its members include all 78 U.S. and Canadian dental schools, over 800 allied and advanced dental education programs, 66 corporations and more than 20,000 individuals. 

The mission of ADEA is to develop an inclusive, future-ready oral health workforce prepared to improve the health of all people and communities through leadership, education , and collaboration.  

ADEA's activities encompass a wide range of research, advocacy, faculty development, meetings and communications, including the esteemed Journal of Dental Education, as well as the dental school admissions services ADEA AADSAS, ADEA PASS, ADEA DHCAS and ADEA CAAPID. 

ADEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Associations EEO policy prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin or ancestry, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, child birth or related medical conditions, family responsibilities, genetic information, political affiliation, matriculation, veteran status, union affiliation, disability, credit information, status as a victim or family member of a victim of domestic violence, a sexual offense, or stalking, or any other legally- protected characteristic in accordance with federal or local law (the Protected Categories). EEO applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, training and development, promotion, termination, compensation, and benefits.