The Moores Cancer Center is one of just 57 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States and the only one in San Diego County. As a consortium cancer center, it is a collaborative partnership between the UCSD: encompassing 14 departments (12 clinical, 2 basic sciences), 3 professional schools (School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Public Health), UCSD Health oncology hospitals and clinics; the basic and public health research and outreach of San Diego State University, and the basic and translational research of the La Jolla Institute of Immunology. These various programs and units are all dedicated to fulfilling the Moores Cancer Center's mission of reducing cancer's burden. As such, it ranks among the top centers in the nation conducting the continuum of cancer research, including ground-breaking scientific discovery, innovative translational research and clinical trials, providing advanced level cancer care, and serving the community through outreach and education programs.

As a top-ranking, future-oriented organization, we offer challenging career opportunities in a fast-paced and innovative environment. Moores Cancer Center Business Office follows a progressive philosophy of career-path development for its employees including opportunities for cross-training, professional development, and progressive responsibility.

Under supervision, the Research Data Coordinator's primary responsibility is to work in the Moores Cancer Center Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and provide support with Cancer Center data coding, management, curation and analysis. Specific responsibilities include 1) Coordinating and tracking of data ingestion; 2) Obtaining data from various data resources - integrating and formatting large, complex datasets, and maintaining current databases; 3) Working with human resources and EDI offices across institutions to obtain data;4) Coding cancer-related grants, publications, and trainee data for specified, complex metrics; 5) Summarizing and analyzing data sets; 6) Present data to stakeholders; 7) Contribute to design and evaluation of EDI programs; 8) Providing management and curation of data beingfederated. Contribute to diversity, cancer-related, and academic expertise to database formulation, coding, and presentation. Will also be responsible for composing of correspondence and data reports, assistance with manuscripts and reports to funding agencies, uploadingdata to funding agencies, assisting with assessment of data integrity by running validation checks, and cleaning data as needed. Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

• Six years of related experience, education/training, OR a Bachelor's degree in related area plus two years of related experience/training.

• Working skills in statistical analysis, systems programming, database design and data security measures.

• Working skills in analysis and consultation.

• Skills to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing.

• Demonstrated experience in research data collection, curation and quality control.

• Experience with various database and data collection platforms, data analysis and presentation.

• Demonstrated experience in library and internet research.

• Experience with database applications and selection of data using query features. Experience with Microsoft Excel, and statistical programs (e.g., SPSS or R).

• Statistical analysis experience and/or degree in statistics, or graduate degree in a field that requires use of statistics.

• Interpersonal skills with the ability to foster a good working relationship with a wide variety of people, using tact, diplomacy, confidentiality and flexibility.

• Experience handling large amounts of data.

• Experience with writing manuscripts for academic journals and peer reviewed publications.

• Advanced degree (e.g., MPH).

• Experience with equity, diversity, and inclusion projects - evaluation and presentation of findings

• Experience with databases, including RedCap and/or Flight Tracker.

• Theoretical knowledge of oncology and/or biomedical sciences.

• Experience with cancer-related terminology and research.

• Employment is subject to a criminal background check.

• Occasional evening or weekend work as necessitated by grant deadlines.