Data Analyst

$83,371 - $112,487 (ALA) pro-rata, plus 17% Superannuation
- Full-time (1.0 FTE), fixed-term (2 years) opportunity
- Great benefits and work environment

**Job Reference**:1093991**

At Curtin we are committed to embedding the voices and perspectives of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples at the forefront of our decision-making to create an environment in which everyone thrives.

**About the Role**:
We are seeking a skilled and motivated **Data Analyst (official title: Research Associate)**to join the Justice Health Group. This is a two-year full-time (1.0 FTE) appointment, suitable for someone with strong technical skills in quantitative data management and analysis, and a commitment to improving the health of marginalised populations.

This role is ideally suited to someone who thrives in a collaborative research environment, can manage complex data management and analysis tasks with limited supervision, and is passionate about producing research that supports social justice and health equity.

**Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:

- **Data Cleaning and Management**
- Undertaking cleaning and manipulation of large, linked administrative datasets.
- Creating and maintaining detailed documentation, codebooks and data dictionaries.
- **Data Analysis and Interpretation**
- Contributing to the design and planning of data analyses, in collaboration with project leads and team members.
- Conducting appropriate statistical analyses for academic publications and other research outputs.
- Generating clean, well-documented analytic output (e.g., tables, figures, models) for use in academic and policy contexts.
- Assisting team members in the interpretation of statistical output and communicating findings to non-technical audiences.
- **Collaboration and Research Support**
- Working closely with research staff, students, and external collaborators across projects.
- Supporting the implementation of research protocols related to data access, cleaning, security, and governance.
- Maintaining high standards of data security, confidentiality, and ethical research practice.

**Who we are looking for**:

- **Tertiary qualifications** in a relevant quantitative discipline (e.g. public health, psychology, statistics, economics or quantitative criminology) with relevant experience and/or an equivalent combination of relevant quantitative experience and/or education/training.
- **Demonstrated proficiency** in quantitative analysis, statistics and/or mathematical modelling.
- **Demonstrated experience** in using software tools for data interrogation, extraction, presentation, management and analysis of large datasets.
- **Demonstrated** **proficiency** in at least one widely used statistical software package (e.g. SAS, Stata, R, or SPSS).
- **Well-developed** verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex data into written form, which can be understood by a variety of audiences.
- **Proven ability** to organise time and work activities according to priorities and to meet deadlines.
- **Demonstrated ability** to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
- **Demonstrated interest** in improving health outcomes for marginalised populations, such as people with experience of incarceration.
- **Experience with time-to-event analysis** methods (e.g. Cox regression).

**Desirable**
- **Postgraduate training** in a relevant discipline (e.g. public health, psychology, statistics, economics, or quantitative criminology).
- Working** knowledge of the Australian criminal justice system**.
- **Prior experience working with large, linked administrative datasets**, especially in the health, justice, or social service domains.
- **Demonstrated ability** to work with data across disciplines.
- **Familiarity with complex statistical methods**, including survival analysis, generalised linear models, and multilevel modelling.
- **Experience working in a research environment**, including contributing to academic publications, technical reports, or policy briefs.
- If your qualifications or experience look different from what we've described above, but you feel your skills and potential are a match to the capabilities we need, please apply. We are looking for diversity in experience, thought and approach. This role is part of a progressive and supportive team._

**Role Requirements**:

- As this is a fixed-term contract, you will require current work rights in Australia that match the tenure of this role.

**Your New Team**:The Justice Health Group

The Justice Health Group is a multidisciplinary and mixed-methods research team working to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people who come into contact with the criminal justice system, in Australia and internationally. A cornerstone of our work is the use of large-scale, cross-sectoral, linked administrative data to generate high-quality evidence, and use that evidence to advocate for meaningful change