What are the responsibilities and job description for the Honest Broker position at University of Wisconsin–Madison?
Job Summary:
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and ethical Honest Broker to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for generating de-identified data and synthetic datasets, ensuring data privacy and compliance with regulatory standards. This role requires a deep understanding of data anonymization techniques, synthetic data generation, and a commitment to maintaining the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information. On a day-to-day basis, the incumbent could expect to engage in the following activities in supporting researchers that use WHDH services:
- Work with leadership in creating the necessary infrastructure, policies, standard operating procedures, and practices for data integration promoting data sharing and data driven discovery.
- Design and facilitate data sharing agreements with participating sites, data use requests forms, and data attestation forms for end users.
- Ensure adherence to agreements, security, privacy and compliance regulations including HIPAA and human subjects research guidelines during data releases.
- Coordinate the cyber security reviews and risk management for the program.
- Utilize privacy preserving data linkage approaches as needed for data integration.
- Develop and implement data anonymization and de-identification techniques to protect sensitive information and releasing data for research.
- Generate synthetic datasets that accurately reflect real-world data while ensuring privacy and confidentiality.
- Conduct data quality assessments and validation to ensure the accuracy and reliability of de-identified and synthetic data.
- Provide guidance and support to other team members on best practices for data privacy and security.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in policies governing data sharing, data de-identification and synthetic data generation techniques.
- Contribute to education and training initiatives
Responsibilities:
Advises researchers in the best use of various state-of-the-art cyber infrastructure (CI) systems, tools, and software to enable research productivity. Partners with facilitators and researchers to co-create and co-learn research activities and relevant advanced computing and data capabilities both locally and nationally. Coordinates projects with technical teams to ensure delivery and improvement of research CI services, contributes to strategy for engaging with faculty research groups and building facilitation capacities, and participates in cross-functional management teams and projects. Informs partnerships with other technology groups, internal and external, and contributes to communication with stakeholders.- 30% Engages with researchers in their selection and use of relevant CI services, systems, tools, and computing strategies. Leverages an understanding of specific research activities and their use of CI solutions to serve as a liaison between research projects and collaborators. Recommends enhancements to workflows, software, and tools, and provides in-depth consultation to research projects in cooperation with supervised staff
- 30% Connects and coordinates interactions between researchers and technology providers. Provides regular communications to and leads collaborations with systems and software/data professionals on the design of service enhancements
- 10% Contributes to the design and content development of documentation and advanced curricula, and instructs at workshops for researchers to maximize their use of CI. Serves as a subject matter expert for trainings relevant to specific areas of science domain and technology, software, or tools
- 10% Communicates with internal and external collaborators around facilitation and service models. Contributes to research CI community best practices documentation, presents at conferences, and/or publishes in peer reviewed journals
- 10% Provides consultation and expertise for research proposals. May serve as Co-Principal Investigator for a research proposal or Principal Investigator on proposals around facilitation functions
- 10% Provides regular communications to researchers and other internal and external stakeholders. May advise institutional or divisional leadership on research CI topics
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
Education:
Preferred
Master's Degree
Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Public Health, Bioethics or related field preferred.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience in data anonymization, de-identification, and synthetic data generation
- Strong understanding of data privacy regulations and compliance requirements
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or similar
- Experience with data anonymization tools and techniques
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Commitment to ethical data practices and maintaining the highest standards of data integrity
Work Type:
Full Time: 100%
This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:
Minimum $100,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The starting salary for the position is $100,000 but is negotiable based on experience and qualifications.
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at (https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/).
SMPH Academic Staff Benefits flyer: (https://uwmadison.box.com/s/r50myohfvfd15bqltljn0g4laubuz7t0)
Additional Information:
University sponsorship is not available for this position, including transfers of sponsorship. The selected applicant will be responsible for ensuring their continuous eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of an employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment. This position is an ongoing position that will require continuous work eligibility. UW-Madison is not an E-Verify employer, and therefore, is not eligible to employ F1 STEM OPT Extension participants. If you are selected for this position you must provide proof of work authorization and eligibility to work.
How to Apply:
To apply for this position, please click on the "Apply Now" button. You will be asked to upload a current resume/CV and a cover letter briefly describing your qualifications and experience.
Contact:
Cody Roekle
croekle@wisc.edu
608-263-7676
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.
Official Title:
Research CI Facilitator III(RE079)
Department(s):
A53-MEDICAL SCHOOL/Informatics and IT
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
310824-AS
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
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Salary : $100,000
