Data Support Specialist

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Job related travel. Occasional standing or walking with objects up to 25lbs, sitting at computer workstation for extended periods, and/or repetitive motion.

Monday-Friday, 8:00am – 5;00pm (40 hrs/wk)

The UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health, serving as the designated State Office of Rural Health, has added this position to the Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH) team.

The Data Support Specialist supports KORH by using established grant data tracking, reporting, and documentation processes for rural health programs across Kentucky. This position helps collect, organize, review, and document program activities, deliverables, technical assistance, and required reporting elements for KORH’s federally funded programs, including reporting through the HRSA Data Collection Platform (DCP) and HRSA Electronic Handbook (EHB).

The position also supports rural stakeholders by preparing data summaries, reports, resources, funding information, and reference materials using HRSA, FORHP, MBQIP, CAHMPAS, and other rural health or grant-specific data sources. In addition, the position assists with KORH program reporting processes, tracking logs, technical assistance documentation, reporting calendars, meeting preparation, follow-up on deliverables, and other duties as assigned. The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, organized, dependable, comfortable entering, reviewing, and organizing program data in established grant reporting tools, and able to manage multiple deadlines in a collaborative team environment.

This is a grant-funded position, and continuation of the position is contingent upon available funding.

Microsoft Office, strong written and verbal communication skills, organization and attention to detail, ability to learn new software, ability to travel for work (i.e. meetings, conferences, technical assistance) as needed.

Valid driver’s license preferred.

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