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About Us FNHA Overview The First Nations Health Authority is a diverse and transformational health organization of professional, innovative, and dedicated team members and leaders.
The first of its kind in Canada, FNHA works as a health-and-wellness partner with BC First Nations to support self-determination and decision-making to improve health outcomes.
Title: Data Analyst
Salary: $70,677 – $88,399 – $97,239 per year (pay range explained below)
Contract: Term to March 29, 2025
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (core hours 9am-3pm Mon-Fri)
Location: Remote with in office and community days dictated by operational needs. The in-office location will be at 540-757 West Hastings St, Vancouver and 501-100 Park Royal South, West Vancouver.
About The Role
As the Data Analyst, you will primarily be responsible for data analysis, preparing data for presentation in reports, and other knowledge exchange tasks. Strong command of R software for conducting analyses and generating reports, presentations and dashboards will be essential for success in the role. This position ensures that data analysis and research activities carried out comply with FNHA’s priorities, standards and best practices. Additionally, as part of a multidisciplinary team, this position actively engages in the implementation of the Regional Health Survey as needed. Minimal travel to communities in BC is required in this role.
About You
To be successful in this role you will have:
- A University Degree with an acceptable specialization in one or more of the following areas; biostatistics, epidemiology, mathematics or an equivalent combination of education, training or experience
- An understanding and/or completion of courses in advanced statistics, and/or biostatistics, public-health analysis and/or evidence-based methods
- Relevant, recent and significant experience in data collection, data analysis and presentation of data to a wide variety of audiences (normally acquired over a period of 3-5 years)
- Experience with BC First Nations communities and/or organizations
- Experience in developing proposals and briefing packages; in utilizing a variety of office tools including Microsoft Office suite and SharePoint; in handling sensitive and confidential information and matters in a trusted and responsible manner; and in developing and maintain administrative systems, processes and procedures
- Advanced knowledge of the concepts, theories and principles of statistics (quantitative and qualitative analysis), bio-statistics and epidemiology is required to: plan, design and conduct epidemiological, bio-statistical and statistical analyses and surveys+
- Knowledge of statistical software SPSS and Excel; of data collection, research and analysis methods and approaches; of research approaches reflective of Indigenous epistemologies; and of the FNHA, and its structure and inter-dependencies
Please refer to Job Specification section of the Job Description for more details.
You may have experience in;
- Preferred successful completion of a post-secondary education or specialized program with a First Nations focus
- Experience with Indigenous research methods is an asset
- Experience working statistical software SPSS and Excel a must, and other statistical applications an asset
Working at FNHA
Benefits
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits from day one, including:
- Municipal Pension plan with an employer contribution of 9.31% (after 3 months)
- 3 weeks’ vacation, which increases with service to 4 weeks, plus 5 personal days, 1 volunteer day, and 14 public holidays including National Indigenous People’s Day and National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- Access to group health benefits and a Health Care Spending Account through Canada Life on day 1 of employment
- And more!
The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals with Indigenous ancestry who chose to identify (First Nations, Inuit, Métis).
Leading with culture, all FNHA employees complete San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training. We support our family to be leaders in wellness and all staff members develop a yearly wellness plan as part of their performance partnership and goal-setting.
The Pay Range is the minimum and maximum annual salary based on full time equivalent hours.
Incumbents are typically hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the range based on their knowledge, skills, abilities and experience in relation to the role requirements. The top 10% of the pay range is for the incumbents who are industry experts in the job with the combination of exceptional experience and competencies needed to perform all duties and responsibilities at a superior capability level.
As a health and wellness organization, the FNHA has aligned with the Provincial Public Health Order released on October 14, 2021. We have a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all employees at First Nations Health Authority. This policy requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If selected for employment, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination by providing a copy of your BC Vaccination Card Passport with the QR code.
How To Apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the ‘Apply for Job’ button.
Closing date: January 25th, 2024 (at 23:59)
For more information about us, please visit: www.fnha.ca/about/work-with-us
If you have any inquiries or issues please contact FNHA Recruitment at [email protected]
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