Student Assistant

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Job Title:

Student Assistant

Department:

James | Cancer Program Analytics-JM

Scope of Position

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) is committed to enhancing the quality and safety of care provided to patients. As part of the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) the Student Assistant will support the department’s data, analytics, and reporting activities through a combination of data entry, data collection, data organization, analysis, reporting, and project support. This position is designed for a motivated student who is interested in gaining practical experience with real-world data and analytics work while contributing to projects that support departmental and organizational priorities.

The role may include entering and maintaining data, compiling information from multiple sources, assisting with data quality checks, preparing reports, supporting dashboards, and helping with data processing or transformation. Depending on the student’s skills and interests, the position may also involve exploratory analysis, advanced analytics, automation, visualization, and creative problem-solving to improve how data is used for decision-making.

Position Summary

The Student Assistant will work with department staff, analysts, project leads, and other team members to support data-driven initiatives. This role will help ensure information is accurate, organized, timely, and useful for reporting, analysis, and operational decision-making.

This position offers hands-on experience in data entry, analytics, reporting, business intelligence, and project support. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, dependable, curious, comfortable working with data, and willing to learn new tools and methods. The role is well suited for students interested in healthcare analytics, business analytics, information systems, data science, public health, operations, finance, computer science, or related fields.

Detailed work is required, and the student assistant will be responsible for handling confidential information.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current undergraduate student enrolled in Computer Science & Engineering, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Health Information Management & Systems, or a related field attending The Ohio State University
• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Professionalism, reliability, and ability to manage confidential information
• Working knowledge of SQL and/or Python preferred
• Experience with data collection, cleaning, analysis, and interpretation preferred
• Familiarity with statistical methods or machine learning concepts preferred
• Ability to work independently while also collaborating with a team.
• Curiosity, initiative, and willingness to learn new tools and methods.

Additional Information:

Location:

Ackerman Rd, 660 (0242)

Position Type:

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Scheduled Hours:

20

Shift:

First Shift

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