Business Analyst - Center for Clinical and Translational Research

VCU Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research

At VCU, we are UNCOMMON and UNLIKE any other university. A premier, urban, public research university nationally recognized as one of the best employers for diversity, VCU is a great place to work.

It’s a place of opportunity where your success is supported and your career can thrive. VCU offers employees a generous leave package, career paths for advancement, competitive pay, and an opportunity to do mission-driven work.

VCU's Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) invites all interested candidates to apply for our exciting Business Analyst position.

CCTR accelerates the science that promotes healthy communities. It provides the commonwealth with infrastructure and resources that promote interdisciplinary human health research.

As the first federally funded clinical and translational research center in Virginia, the Wright Center fosters research collaborations across the state and accelerates the translation of scientific discoveries to patient care.

All full-time staff are eligible for our generous benefits package that includes choices for health, vision, and dental coverage, life-insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, retirement planning, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, flexible spending accounts, tuition benefits, significant paid-time off,12 paid holidays, and more.

Explore our benefits further here :

Position Primary Purpose and General Duties :

The Research Informatics Business Analyst will serve as a liaison between the Wright Center informatics team and non-technical stakeholders in clinical research at VCU, including the Institutional Review Board (IRB), the VCU Health System (VCUHS) compliance office, and study teams conducting clinical research.

This role will be responsible for shepherding individual projects through the research pipeline with duties such as recommending technical solutions to address research needs, collecting requirements for data extracts, and verifying that VCUHS and IRB regulatory requirements are followed when provisioning clinical datasets for research.

This role will also make use of Epic tools such as SlicerDicer and Reporting Workbench

Minimum Hiring Standards :

• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to healthcare or information technology or equivalent work experience
• At least two years experience working in clinical research, healthcare, and / or informatics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to clearly and concisely translate requirements and limitations between technical and non-technical personnel
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with competing demands from multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated competence organizing complex information in a clear and concise manner
• Voracious appetite for learning new skills

Preferred Hiring Standards :

• Professional experience working at the intersection of healthcare / clinical research and informatics
• Extensive knowledge of HIPAA regulations
• Experience using Epic SlicerDicer and Reporting Workbench
• Experience working as an IRB analyst
• Experience working with relational databases and writing SQL
• Professional experience in project management

Job Family : Information Technology, University Title : Business Intelligence Analyst 1, Job Code : 24231