Biostatistician or Senior Biostatistician, Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 4 mo ago
AnalystFull-time
About the role
The Department of Public Health Sciences is currently seeking a Biostatistician/Senior Biostatistician. Level will be determined by qualifications.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with research faculty members in the Division of Biostatistics, as well as other investigators in the School of Medicine, on multiple clinical and biomedical research projects.
- Designs and performs reproducible statistical analyses, writes technical reports and interprets study results.
- Collaborates and supports research projects, providing status reports, and research publication and grant proposal support.
- Senior Biostatisticians collaborate with biomedical researchers in designing and implementing research projects and publishing results.
- Writes statistical design, methods, and analysis for research proposals.
- Collaborates with biomedical investigators to develop objectives and design sampling, randomization, and data collection procedures to achieve study objectives.
- Assume lead roles in research projects by serving on committees, supervising project personnel, coordinating quality control efforts, and serving on writing teams.
- Supervise junior professionals and other staff.
- Write statistical computer programs
- Review computer output for consistency and quality
- Analyze data and prepare tables for interim and final reports
- Design tables and statistical procedures for specific research studies
- Write results sections of reports and publications
- Develop statistical designs and planned analyses for research grant proposals
- Develop and implement new innovative procedures in the areas of data collection, quality control, presentation of results, and statistical analyses
- Lead biostatistical collaborations with clinical research teams
Requirements
- Master's degree in statistics, biostatistics, or a related quantitative field by appointment start date
- Three years of related experience is preferred, including professional biostatistical collaborative experiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Programming experience in R, SAS/Stata, and REDCap
- Experience with Snowflake, OMOP, Claims data, Python, LaTeX and/or Markdown
Physical Demands
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require walking some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
Pay
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Schedule
This is an exempt-level, benefited position.