Job Description
Session: Summer (May - August)
Position Title: Informatics Intern
Hiring Manager: Elizabeth Burdick
Agency: Department of Health
Location: Pierre or Sioux Falls, SD
Minimum Salary: $22.54
*APPLICANT MUST BE A CURRENT PART-TIME OR FULL-TIME STUDENT (MINIMUM OF 6 CREDIT HOURS) IN UPCOMING SEMESTER OR IN THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SEMESTER. Position Description: The informatics intern works with the South Dakota Department of Health's (SD-DOH) Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Informatics Center (ESIC) to maintain and enhance our electronic disease surveillance system and processes. The mission of ESIC is improving the health and well-being of South Dakotans by monitoring disease, providing education, communicating timely, and collaborating with community partners to prevent disease.
The intern will have the opportunity to work on various projects such as:
- learn about disease surveillance data and reporting through the creation of data dictionaries to support operational awareness;
- learn about electronic case reporting (eCR), how ESIC uses electronic case data, and advance processes for working with the data;
- assist with mapping of eCR data elements into the electronic disease surveillance system;
- learn about data visualization through the creation of dashboards using Power BI.
Qualifications: - Applicant must be enrolled as a part-time/full-time student at a college, university, or technical institute at the time they apply. By the start of the internship, the student should have completed one year (nine months) of their chosen program.
- All students are encouraged to apply, but preference may be given to applicants with a standing of junior/senior, South Dakota residents, and students of South Dakota institutions.
- Applicants should have completed one semester of each of the following by the start of the internship.
- Computer science
- Data science
Apply at: https://gen-stateofsouthdako-trn.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/shorturl.do?key=Z8
*Positions can be filled prior to the closing date.*
South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources
Telephone: 605.773.3148
"An Equal Opportunity Employer"
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