Nika Gorski
Data Manager & Operations Expert
📍 Location: Leeds, United Kingdom

Summary

Results-oriented and proactive operations and data manager with experience in consultancy and clinical trials. Passionate about leveraging data to improve health outcomes and operational efficiency.

Education

MSc Food Security and Development
University of Reading, 2023, Distinction - Key Modules: Project Planning & Management, Nutrition & Health, Theories & Practices of Development, Global Environmental Change Justice & Development Master’s Dissertation: Stunting, Access, and Socioeconomic Status in Mopeia, Moz. applicable)
BS Biochemistry with a Minor in Economics
Sewanee: The University of the South, 2022, Magna Cum Laude - Key Modules: Biochemistry, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Game Theory, International Trade

Work Experience

Data Manager

ISGlobal, Barcelona | January 2024 – Present

  • Communicate complex malaria clinical trial research findings from Kenya to global stakeholders with different backgrounds and seniority levels to support research.
  • Support PhD students in the conceptualization of research questions and analyses.
  • Assess current workflows and offer potential improvements developed collaboratively.
  • Represented ISGlobal at MIM in Rwanda 2024 to unblind clinical research trial findings.

Operations Manager

Databrew, Remote | June 2023 – Present

  • Identify market potential and strategic opportunities to create and develop a data management platform to address key research challenges, needs, and questions.
  • Devise and implement plans for consultancy projects and internal big picture ideas.
  • Organize and lead meetings and staff to meet varied deadlines and project deliverables.
  • Empowered 18 KEMRI employees to use R in a data science bootcamp in Kenya 2024.

Associate Director

Sewanee DataLab, Tennessee. April 2024 – July 2024

  • Shaped and delivered the data science for social good summer program.
  • Identified community partners, devised projects, organized meetings, and led teams to develop final deliverables for their respective community partner project.
  • Established and maintained strong one on one relationships with interns, community partners, senior management, and funders to contribute to the success of the program.

Intern at a cough company

Hyfe, Remote July 2022 – Oct 2022

  • Cross-analyzed research projects and successfully identified gaps in subjective cough research, which were implemented into research projects on healthcare in Vietnam.

Assistant Co-Director

Sewanee DataLab, Tennessee. May 2022 – August 2022

  • Seek advice and input from university experts on funding schemes and project plans.
  • Coordinated and hosted an online and in-person showcase event for 100+ attendees.

Project Manager

Sewanee DataLab, Tennessee. August 2021 – April 2022

  • Engaged with prospective partner organizations and stakeholders to create 9 for social good projects while maintaining key relationships and updating senior management.

Intern for Data Science for Social Good Fellowship

Sewanee DataLab, Tennessee. May 2021 – July 2021

  • Synthesized and presented key findings for a carbon sequestration project in Haiti.

Intern for Oklahoma Government

Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Oklahoma. May 2020 – Aug 2020

  • Identified best practices for Oklahoma’s “Front Porch” project, an initiative aimed at better integrating services offered by the State’s health and human services agencies.
  • Developed and presented ideas to Secretary John Budd to effectively use $1.26B in Coronavirus Relief Funds to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic.

Extra-curricular activities

Organizer of Connect with GIIDAE

Reading, England. Feb 2023 – June 2023

  • Planned, implemented, and developed a networking event at the University of Reading culminating into an annual GIIDAE event with hundreds of attendees.

Volunteer with Students in Schools

Reading, England. March 2023 – September 2023

  • Demonstrated interpersonal proficiency and enthusiasm while engaging with students on a weekly basis through a local community building initiative.

Captain of Varsity Sewanee Soccer Team,

Sewanee: The University of the South, Tennessee. Sep 2020 – May 2022

  • Led the team to league finals as 3 year captain.

Site Leader of Diabetes Education Program Fellowship

Sewanee: The University of the South, Tennessee. Sep 2019 – May 2022

  • Developed and implemented a research project on the management styles of Type 2 diabetes in collaboration with a local free clinic to support community members.
  • Presented diabetes education materials to members of the local community.

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