Research Data Specialist – Health

• Working with a collaborative team and leading organisation
• Showcase your data quality skills and your ability to create impactful datasets
• Long term role that offers a hybrid working environment

We are seeking a Research Data Specialist - Health to support the delivery and ongoing improvement of high-quality data solutions that underpin innovative health and epidemiological research.

In this crucial supporting role, you will work within a multidisciplinary team to maintain and enhance the data infrastructure that allows researchers to access curated, reliable, and timely datasets. Your role will focus on ensuring data is well-organised, accurately documented, and optimised for research use – helping drive impactful insights from population health data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design and maintenance of automated cloud-based data pipelines, ensuring secure, scalable, and consistent data flows
• Collaborate on the development of validated, well-documented datasets tailored for researcher needs
• Assist in transforming and preparing survey and observational health data using R/Python and modern cloud tools
• Monitor and assess data quality through profiling, reporting, and basic visualisation to flag and help resolve data issues
• Maintain metadata systems and data catalogues to support discoverability, traceability, and usability across datasets
• Contribute to documentation and data governance activities, including dataset versioning, consent mapping, and ethical use
• Work closely with researchers, data engineers, and domain experts to ensure data meets ethical, analytical, and quality standards

What We’re Looking For:

• A degree (Honours, Masters or PhD) in data science, public health, health informatics, epidemiology, or a related quantitative field
• Hands-on experience working with health, clinical, or population-level datasets
• Familiarity with cloud-based data tools and workflows (Azure, AWS or GCP), plus scripting in R or Python
• A solid understanding of data documentation, validation processes, and metadata standards
• Good communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with a keen interest in supporting health research initiatives
• Ability to manage competing demands and contribute to shared project goals in a dynamic team environment

To be considered for this role, you must be an Australian Permanent Resident or an Australian Citizen.

If this position is of interest to you, please click ‘Apply’, or you can just send your details to [email protected]

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