We’re currently looking for a data manager to join us at the Columbia Center on Poverty & Social Policy. We run a longitudinal study of poverty and disadvantage in New York City (the Poverty Tracker), and the data manager will oversee all of the data that we’ve collected and continue to collect.
Job Description
This position supports the Columbia Population Research Center, the Center on Poverty and Social Policy, and two of its affiliated research projects, the Robin Hood-supported Poverty Tracker and Early Childhood Poverty Tracker. Reporting to the Project Directors on these two projects, the incumbent will be responsible for overseeing data management for the two studies, including maintaining the existing data management structure, updating that structure in response to new research questions, developing quality assurance checks, data cleaning, subject compensation, preparing secure data contracts, and other research-related activities as assigned.
