Biostatistician

About the role

The Biostatistician will provide analytic and statistical support for the Occupational Sleep Medicine Group (OSMG), which conducts research to ensure health and safety through sleep, fatigue, and cognitive performance studies. Research foci include studies involving pilots, athletes, and horse-human interactions, with a current emphasis on commercial aviation studies. The role involves developing analysis plans, supporting studies with database construction, data cleaning, quality checks, and analysis, writing methods and results sections for peer-reviewed manuscripts, and contributing to grant writing or other research efforts. The position requires participation in team meetings, maintaining full documentation of protocols, procedures, and code for replication, and keeping organized records on the server.

Responsibilities

• Develop analysis plans according to stated research goals.
• Support studies with respect to database construction, cleaning data, checking data quality, and data analysis.
• Write methods and results sections for peer-reviewed manuscripts.
• Contribute to grant writing or other research efforts as assigned.
• Participate in team meetings and maintain full documentation of protocols, procedures, and code in an organized location on the server for direct replication.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other related field.
• Professional experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified; or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.
• Expertise with R statistical programming or related software.
• Education or applied experience in correlated data analysis, including generalized estimating equations and random-effects modeling.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey complex statistical concepts and analytic results to diverse audiences, including non-methodologist researchers and non-scientists, both in person, virtually and in writing.
• Proactive problem-solving skills, ability to work independently, and ability to take appropriate autonomous initiative to carry out study-related functions and understand the full context of research study populations, focus area, and reason for study.
• Ethical integrity and a strong commitment to confidentiality in dealing with scientific data and results.
• Excellent time management and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience working closely with diverse teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two or more years of experience as a statistician in a related field.
• Experience working with one or more of the priority populations.
• Experience with cluster-randomized trials and machine learning.
• Experience using large datasets, including longitudinal cohort data.
• Experience harmonizing variables from multiple datasets.
• Demonstrated experience using SharePoint for collaboration.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of products.
• Experience preparing technical reports or manuscripts.

Benefits

• Paid sick and vacation leave.
• Paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents.
• Retirement and deferred compensation options.
• Optional supplemental retirement accounts.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Employee tuition waiver.

Pay

Monthly Salary: $4,508.70 – $6,050.50 (at 100% FTE). Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. Salary subject to change based on assigned FTE.

Schedule

Position is overtime eligible. FTE is negotiable between 50–100% based on incumbent preference and supervisor approval.