Overview

Help Turn VA Data into Better Care for Veterans

  • Starting salary: $80,465 (GS-11) to $96,443 (GS-12) + benefits, depending on education and experience
  • Full-time, in person at Portland VA Medical Center. Remote arrangements not available for this role
  • Interested candidates should submit a COVER LETTER and RESUME/CV
  • Applications due no later than December 4th, 2026.

Position Summary

The Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) at VA Portland Health Care System is seeking to hire a full-time experienced Data Analyst. CIVIC is a VA Health Systems Research (HSR) Center of Innovation whose mission is to support high-quality research on patient-centered approaches that promote Veteran engagement and active participation in VA and non-VA healthcare and other resources to improve Veteran health and well-being. Under the supervision of the CIVIC Associate Director, Dr. Samuel Edwards, the Data Analyst provides data management and analytic support to multiple research teams on a variety of projects intended to advance the scientific understanding of issues related to common and important health care problems and conditions that affect Veterans.

The Data Analyst would join a collaborative team of approximately 6 data analysts and statisticians who support CIVIC’s diverse research portfolio. Data analysts work across multiple studies alongside several Principal Investigators. Recent and ongoing projects span areas such as Veteran mental health and suicide prevention, primary care access and care coordination, chronic disease management, and Community Care (non-VA care) utilization. CIVIC analysts contribute to studies that are published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national meetings, and those who make substantive intellectual contributions to a project may be named as authors. CIVIC supports professional growth for all staff via a variety of opportunities- see section About CIVIC below for more information. As a federal position, this role also offers paid vacation and sick leave, federal health and retirement benefits, and eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, along with flexible schedule options.

Responsibilities

Tasks will be commensurate with training and experience and may include any or all of the following:

  • Accessing VA’s electronic health records in the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) and using SQL to extract original data in preparation for analysis
  • Preparing and cleaning CDW data as needed (e.g., for diagnosis codes, laboratory tests, medications)
  • Creating analytic variables from extracted data using CDW and other large datasets
  • Linking VA and non-VA data sources and documenting linkage methods
  • Presenting preliminary summary information and statistics of the analytic variables to the team
  • Documenting code and summaries of interim and final datasets used for analyses
  • Executing preliminary analyses under the direction of the investigators
  • Communicating with other data analysts and investigators to relay results and optimize data management and analytic plans
  • Consulting with study teams about valid use of data, including limitations of data

Experience and Qualifications

Required:

  • Master’s or PhD-level training preferred, with a background in data science, health science, research, biostatistics, epidemiology, or other relevant field; bachelor’s degree will be considered if the candidate demonstrates the necessary practical experience.
  • Experience processing large databases from electronic health records, creating analytic variables, and creating data documentation (e.g., data dictionaries)
  • Experience using SQL and other data tools, such as SAS or R
  • Strong organizational and time management skills to navigate multiple tasks effectively
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
  • Commitment to contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment
  • Must be a US citizen (US Federal Government-funded position)

Preferred:

  • Experience with VA healthcare data and/or research
  • Experience with Oracle Health (Cerner/Millennium) EHR data
  • Experience with data management tools and statistical software, such as STATA, SAS, and R
  • Experience with health services research or health systems research

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Position Details

This position is eligible for early, late, or compressed work schedules, a transit pass if applicable, as well as paid vacation, sick leave, and a range of healthcare and retirement benefits.

About CIVIC

CIVIC is committed to developing and sustaining a workforce that supports the inclusion and professional growth of all people. CIVIC values individuals at all points in their career trajectories, and CIVIC is committed to fostering the professional growth of its staff. Within CIVIC and the broader VA and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) communities, there are many opportunities for continuing education, didactic and training related to a broad variety of topics. Such opportunities include OHSU Departmental Grand Rounds or larger events, research-in-progress meetings, CIVIC conferences, analyst drop-in sessions, qualitative forums, and more.

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About Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care

CIVIC’s Mission is to support high quality research on patient-centered approaches that promote Veteran engagement and active participation in VA and non-VA healthcare and other resources to improve Veteran health and well-being.

We have designated two primary impact goals that align with HSR and VHA priorities:

Goal 1: Develop and implement interventions and other approaches that improve the healthcare, health, and safety of Veterans who have elevated suicide risk and mental health conditions including pain.

Goal 2: Develop innovative strategies that increase access and improve care coordination within VHA and across VHA and community settings.

Additional CIVIC goals are to:

Goal 3: Support additional high value, innovative research that falls outside our focused areas.

Goal 4: Collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders including Veterans to enhance research and build bridges between innovation and evidence.

Goal 5: Further develop CIVIC expertise and activities in dissemination and implementation.

Goal 6: Support career development of promising early and established investigators and staff in order to build and sustain health services research capacity.