Data Manager II - Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative

Department

SOM Wichita Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Psychiatry & Behavioral Science

Position Title

Data Manager II - Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative

Job Family Group

Professional Staff

Job Description Summary

The Data Manager for the Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative leads multi hub data coordination and serves as the operational steward for platform generated utilization, symptom, and safety data. This role builds and maintains reliable data pipelines and validation processes, ensures secure transfers and governance, and supports dashboards and continuous quality improvement (CQI) cycles. The Data Manager partners with evaluation, implementation, and technical teams to deliver accurate, timely reporting and contributes to CMS facing deliverables in alignment with regulatory and program requirements.

The Thrive Kansas Digital Mental Health Initiative is a grant funded, statewide, evidence-based digital therapeutic strategy designed to expand access to treatment for depression, substance use disorders (SUD) and other mental disorders in rural Kansas. The initiative deploys clinically validated computerized mental health interventions supported by community-based facilitation and integrated into rural primary care, behavioral health, and community settings.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Multi-hub data coordination
• Platform-generated utilization, symptom, and safety data
• Data quality checks and validation
• Secure data transfers and governance
• Supporting dashboards and CQI cycles
• CMS-facing reporting support

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Environment

• Hybrid may be available

Required Qualifications

Work Experience:

• Nine (9) years of experience in data management, data engineering, or analytics operations supporting multi‑source datasets. Education may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.
• Hands‑on experience with data quality frameworks, validation scripting (e.g., SQL, Python), and documentation.

Education

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, information systems, public health, statistics, computer science, or related field.

Work Experience

• Experience with health research or healthcare/public health, platform‑generated data, and safety/incident datasets.
• Familiarity with HIPAA/PHI, IRB/DUA processes, and CMS reporting structures.
• Experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and workflow/orchestration (e.g., SQL jobs, Airflow).
• Exposure to data modeling, metadata management, and version control (e.g., Git).
• Experience supporting CQI, quality dashboards, or performance improvement initiatives.
• Experience with data transfer methods.
• Experience with access control.
• Experience with data governance practices.
• Experience with technical data translation.
• Experience with data governance.
• Experience with data quality engineering & validation.
• Experience with secure data transfer.

Skills

• Communication
• Organization
• Collaboration
• Problem solving
• Detail oriented
• Accountability
• Time Management

Required Documents

• Resume/CV
• Cover Letter

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html

Employee Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Rate Type

Salary

Compensation Statement

The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, education, experience and training, qualifications relative to the requirements of the position, and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range, taking into account the combination of factors listed above.

Pay Range

$80,600.00 - $120,900.00

Minimum

$80,600.00

Midpoint

$100,800.00

Maximum

$120,900.00