Position Objective: Provide services as a Scientific Program Analyst in support of the overall functions of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Scientific Program Analyst Contractor Description for the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Immediate Office of the Director (IMOD), and the NIMHD Division of Biological and Behavioral Sciences (DIBBS).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Help draft programmatic standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Assist with Researching and/or analyzing complex program issues. Help determine what information is required and collect data from multiple sources. Help review information, reconcile conflicting data, and devise new or modified methods to analyze findings. Help develop and present recommendations and proposals.
• Help develop and maintain a program database (flat file or relational, to be determined) to archive and track key NIH documents and outcomes—including but not limited to Prior Approval Requests and GMOs’ decisions, notices of grant awards, tracking forms, PI responses, compliance with program requirements, and submission of required documentation, literature sources pertaining to the scientific study of health disparities and other areas of interest as requested.
• Support the IMOD Program Official (PO)/leaders by assisting with gathering, validating, analyzing, summarizing, reporting a wide variety of data used to plan and/or oversee scientific research and helping manage the ongoing programmatic activities of NIMHD. For example, the candidates will help conduct portfolio analyses of funded grants, compile data, create graphs and slides and presentations for meetings. 2
• Assist program officials with project management, including the management of their grant portfolios. This includes progress reports and other critical documentation of the appropriate conduct of biomedical research and progress of projects.
• Leverage data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.) and data software (SAS, SPSS, R, NVivo, ATLAS, etc.) to help analyze data in support of metrics, trend analysis, audits and other reports and projects. This may include developing queries using programming languages such as SQL, SAS, Python, R to extract data and run statistical analyses.
• Provide programmatic support for NIH oversight of project compliance with NIH requirements for the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC), including assistance with monitoring progress on grant milestones. 1
• Support IMOD and FIRST CEC activities including notetaking, agenda development, scheduling, report and other document preparation, data pulls, and project coordination to link between NIH Project Leads, NIH leadership, NIH POs, and funded grantees.
• Assist with scheduling and managing meeting/workshop logistics, including meeting minutes (e.g., monthly meetings, workshops, working group meetings, and center grant specific meetings;), and record and track completion of action items with NIH POs and PIs regarding compliance with NIH requirements for the FIRST CEC grant.
• Communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders and programs across the NIH Participate in NIMHD staff meetings and activities as appropriate.
• Participate in training activities that will enhance skills and comprehensiveness of deliverables (i.e. portfolio analysis training, literature reviews).
• Track and file (in Microsoft Teams and other indicated NIH Program databases) incoming emails and response to NIH POs and PIs with respect to specific NIH established milestones of the FIRST CEC.
• Assist with preparing reports of evaluation findings, developing spreadsheets and presentation slides to meet internal and leadership requests for information often in short time frames.
• Support activities including notetaking, agenda development, scheduling, report and other document preparation, data pulls, and project coordination to link between NIH Project Leads, NIH leadership, NIH POs, and funded grantees. 5
• Track and report on participation of a investigators and research sites at general and subcommittee/workgroup meetings relevant to the ongoing tasks of the FIRST CEC. 4
• Complete other tasks as assigned to support the work of the FIRST CEC and the NIMHD IMOD.
• Collect data and information concerning work processes, administrative programs or procedures from various sources, such as database systems, manuals, policies, and procedures, in order to respond to inquiries.
• Support the Program Official (PO)/leaders by tracking programmatic communication with NIH POs and Principal Investigators (PI) with the various working group members at Common Fund and various institutes at NIH and with external stakeholder. 3
• Work products and documents related to gathering, validating, analyzing, summarizing, and reporting data used to plan and conduct scientific research; help identify projects across relevant NIH grant portfolios and report analyses of the scientific content, numbers of projects, and stratification of projects in various ways such as on the population or scientific topic areas. - Daily
• Work products and documents related to assisting with performing scientific literature searches and review; researching wide range of databases, strategic plans, policy issuances, white papers, prior- and current-year budgets, and periodic progress reports. - Daily
• Work products and documents related to help organize, participate in internal and external meetings (e.g., meeting agendas and minutes); assist the staff with and provide logistical support for the planning and implementation of weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual meetings. - Daily
• Work products and documents related to planning of meetings, workshops, conferences, and other reports and managing requested scientific information. - Daily

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in anthropology and archeology, sociology, miscellaneous social sciences, miscellaneous psychology, statistics and decision science, community and public health, biology, clinical psychology, environmental science, genetics, neuroscience, cognitive science and biopsychology, and ecology.
• Skilled in PubMed, EndNote, Scopus, QVR, iSearch, NIH RePORTER, SPSS, Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint, Excel, WebEx, Word, R, and communication platforms (MS Teams, Zoom, etc.).
• Experienced in reports, agendas, meeting minutes, facilitating/hosting meetings with various customers and NIH staff, detailed research and analysis, working collaboratively, tracking and reporting on various actions/items, drafting SOPs, workshop and conference planning, portfolio analysis, data cleaning, gap analysis, and conducting scientific administrative/management activities.
• Knowledge of NIH grants and funding mechanisms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• NIH experience preferred.
• Ability to multi-task and pay close attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

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