Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community.  To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live, work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community.  Community is more than a place….its our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck.  A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks.  We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year.  

Additional Benefits include:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution
• Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees
• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional Development including professional membership fees paid
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Plus: Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities. 

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JOB SUMMARY

Supports complex and varied tasks aligned with public health informatics initiatives across programs, divisions, and the agency. Plans, develops policies, analyzes systems, manages data, coordinates projects, and communicates across teams. Assists in developing implementing, evaluating, and maintaining public health information systems.

This position is housed within Salt Lake County Health Department Information Services and plays a key role in developing and enhancing the County’s opioid-related data infrastructure. The individual will collaborate closely with the Health Department and Human Services to improve systems for data collection, storage, integration, interoperability, access, and management. These efforts are vital for enabling a coordinated and effective response to the opioid epidemic, guiding cross-agency prevention strategies, and advancing broader goals of systemic coordination. The role involves close collaboration with epidemiologists, IT/informatics staff, and data analysts. The ideal candidate will have a background in health informatics, strong problem-solving and project management skills, and the ability to communicate effectively and work across departments.

This role requires experience in data integration, data quality assurance, managing ETL workflows in particular data warehouses with a strong focus on data integration, process management and ensuring high data quality. Responsibilities include handling more complex data tasks, integrating data from various sources, ensuring data quality, and managing data processes.

This role collaborates with Human Services to monitor opioid-related issues, improve data access, and support targeted interventions as part of broader DMI efforts.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Health Informatics, Biostatistics, Public Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Computer Science, Public Health, or Health Administration, or other closely related field, plus four (4) years of related experience of which two (2) years must have been in health informatics; OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience.

Education may not be substituted for the required health informatics experience.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

A valid Driver’s License accepted by the State of Utah is required at the time of hire. A valid Driver’s License issued by the State of Utah must be obtained within six (6) months of hire to operate a County vehicle

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develops, manages, and monitors public health information systems/registries used to public health related diseases and conditions, risk factors and outcomes, develops overdose master person idex
• Develop, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes automated and real time
• Manage Application Programming Interface (API's)
• Supports the collection, access, and analysis of data across systems to strengthen public health informatics infrastructure. Utilizes advanced statistical methods, predictive analytics, and machine learning to assess public health conditions and shares findings through publications and presentations
• Monitoring and quality assurance of data sets and develop systems to manage non-identifiable data
• Assists in development of study designs primarily using electronic surveillance systems related to public health disease conditions and interventions.
• Supports public health programs by translating system data into actionable insights, improving access to information, and evaluating the impact of informatics tools
• System design and implementation, designs and maintains public health surveillance systems aimed at public health disease prevention and health promotion
• Provides technical assistance and training in the areas of data collection, accessing potential data sets, and analysis and visualization including informatics/system focused, predictive analytical procedures, and statistical software programs
• Establishes objectives, goals, and priorities of informatics projects
• Ensures knowledge, information, and data needs of program users and stakeholders are met
• Acts as a resource in determining the most effective way of meeting the informatics needs of management and program staff
• Provides support in oversight of processes, workflow analyses, and resources used in the development and maintenance of health information systems
• Identifies and procures funding through grants, partnerships, and other funding sources

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)

Knowledge of:

• Principles, theories, and practice of public health epidemiology, informatics, and information systems
• Statistical, business analysis, and workflow engineering
• Predictive analytics and machine learning algorithm techniques
• Software applications and methods of database and data warehouse development, use and management
• Public health surveillance and data collection methods
• Information security, regulations, and rules governing access and privacy of records
• Standards healthcare data formats and vocabularies

Skills and Abilities to:

• Use information technology and demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the tools and techniques used
• Plan and manage informatics projects based on requirements and scientific analysis
• Visualize, design, implement, and use information technology by applying informatics skills across the agencies
• Conduct research, database management, development, and statistical programming
• Maintain public health databases used to organize and analyze data, ensuring the confidentiality of information
• Select and utilize appropriate analytical methods, and identify and describe the meaning and significance of findings
• Perform database and query design and development for scripts and reporting and record linkage
• Manage electronic records and stay current with industry standards
• Work with local, state, and federal partners to collect and manage data needed for assessment and evaluation
• Plan, implement, and evaluate program goals
• Establish and maintain working relationships with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other data stewards, health care professionals and allied agencies
• Work independently and professionally interact with staff and clients
• Rely on strong self-initiative to plan, organize, prioritize time and work load, and devise what projects are of value and complete projects without major oversight
• Make decisions, solve problems, and propose solutions
• Communicate clearly in written and verbal form and present information

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIS POSITION

Must be available to provide on-call coverage for public health emergencies in regard to communicable disease and bioterrorism investigation and response protocols if needed.

This is a hybrid position working Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and will require weekly time working in the office.