Data Manager in Surveillance Intelligence Unit (SIU) – ID2605
| Posting date: | 02 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,470 to £32,074 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Pro-rata for job share. National: £27,470 -£28,606 London: £30,827- £32,074 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2024 |
| Location: | Bury St Edmunds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 366129/1 |
Summary
The Science Directorate (SD) delivers high quality, high impact and highly relevant multidisciplinary science. Our People are diverse, talented, engaged and inspired to deliver innovative outcomes.
The APHA’s Surveillance Intelligence Unit (SIU) is a multidisciplinary team that is responsible for collecting, collating, presenting and analysing livestock and wildlife scanning (passive) surveillance data generated through the network of Veterinary Investigation Centres (VICs), Partner Post-mortem Providers (PPPs) and diagnostic laboratories. Increasingly, data from third parties (including commercial laboratories, veterinary practitioners and abattoirs) is also being harnessed to augment scanning surveillance outputs. The data and analyses are used to produce routine reports and other outputs relating to endemic livestock and wildlife diseases in Great Britain for the benefit of a wide range of stakeholders, including the livestock industry, private veterinary surgeons, producers and Government policy teams. This role is an exciting opportunity to work with the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Data Analysis (SEDA) team within SIU and to support the activities of the wider SIU, including the Species Expert Group Leads (SEGLs). More information about the work of these teams is available here.
The reports produced by SIU can be in the form of static PDF files but, increasingly, much of the data is now presented as online interactive dashboards – for both internal and external use – using Tableau software tools. An important component of the job will be managing components of the data reporting cycle that ensure high data quality, including data wrangling exercises; reviewing data entry and data capture procedures; highlighting inconsistent and unreliable user experiences with online outputs; routine reviewing and updating of APHA’s Veterinary Investigation Diagnosis Analysis (VIDA) diagnostic codes; and administration of Tableau Online and other software tools used by the SEDA team. More information is available here.
As data and analytical outputs increasingly move to an online platform, it is important for this role to promote and support the use of interactive dashboards by end users within APHA, including contributing to training sessions of end users.
In addition, the SEDA team services multiple ad hoc requests for data and/or summary statistics relating to animal health data for both internal and external collaborators. This role will interact with collaborators and ensure data requests are addressed and delivered.
The SIU and SEDA team are both geographically dispersed teams. The teams are able to work effectively at a distance using tools such as Microsoft Teams. However, it will be necessary to travel occasionally to Weybridge (or other locations) for training sessions and workshops where face-to-face participation is beneficial for both the individual and the team.
Key areas of work will include:
Data visualisation and presentation
- Assisting with design and user acceptance testing of Tableau dashboards that meet the information requirements of VIC admin teams, for customer management, progress chasing etc.
- Using data preparation and visualisation tools to present surveillance data in the most meaningful format. Creating new data solutions (dashboards, stories) to meet customer needs (veterinary, administrative, financial teams, policy).
- Administration of software tools to ensure users have access to the correct projects; apply monthly updates to internal dashboards; contribute to collation and analysis of Monthly Reportable Diseases returns (previously known as Animal Health Regulations); and produce proper documentation for specific projects.
- You will be expected to develop expertise in Tableau and other data visualisation tools if needed, promoting the system and providing assistance for others who need to use dashboards to better effect.
Data management
- Quality management for animal disease data sources (internal and external) to ensure data quality remains high across all VICs, engaging with VIC and SIU teams to identify improvements, and recommending appropriate action when problems are found.
- Review and update internal documents (for example, list of VIDA codes) to ensure documentation remains up to date.
- Develop an understanding of how data from VICs and laboratories are captured and stored.
- Master Data Management to ensure important concepts such as Customers, Diseases, Farms, etc. are properly maintained.
Team communication
- Investigating best practice and implementing better ways of working through different team communication tools and media such as SharePoint Online, MS Teams.
- Support internal and external stakeholder engagement by helping to organise meetings, team workshops and conferences as required.