Lead-Biostatistician

About the role

The Department of Biostatistics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is seeking a Staff Biostatistician to support and advance St. Jude’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Support and advance St. Jude’s mission that no child dies in the dawn of life.
• Work closely with Biostatistics faculty, collaborating clinical, population and/or laboratory scientists in a multidisciplinary team science.
• Provide research expertise to institutional staff or to other researchers as designated by grant relationships in all aspects of conducting statistical analyses for clinical or experimental studies.
• Apply appropriate statistical and data science methods to support a wide range of biomedical research projects.
• Collaborate with Biostatistics faculty, clinicians, population scientists, and/or laboratory scientists to develop study objectives and analytic strategies.
• Conduct analyses ranging from standard statistical workflows to more computationally intensive approaches, depending on project needs.
• Contribute to abstracts, manuscripts, and other scholarly publications or reports.
• Independently collaborate with faculty/investigators and relevant cross-functional teams for completion of projects of major complexity in assigned research collaboration areas.
• Provide research expertise to researchers as designated by research collaboration areas in all aspects of conducting statistical and/or epidemiology analyses for basic, translational, clinical and/or population sciences studies.
• Participate in study design, design of data collection instruments and database management systems; programming for data preparation and statistical and/or epidemiology analysis using standard statistical and customized analysis packages.
• Perform standard and advanced statistical and/or epidemiology analyses and prepare analysis reports including graphical and table presentations, description of methods used, interpretation of findings, and making valid inferences.
• Aid investigators with manuscript preparation beyond providing analysis reports.
• Engage in training, development, and mentoring of less experienced staff and may supervise less experienced biostatisticians and/or epidemiologists.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in statistical and data science methods, with experience in programming (e.g., R, SAS, Python).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain statistical concepts and results to non-statistical audience.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
• Ability to adapt analytical approaches to different study designs, data types, and research questions.
• Interest in contributing to biostatistical education and training efforts (e.g., training sessions, workshops) for the broader research community.
• Ability to coach colleagues and mentor junior staff biostatisticians.

Skills

• Knowledge of statistical and data science methods.
• Experience in programming (e.g., R, SAS, Python).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to adapt analytical approaches to different study designs, data types, and research questions.
• Interest in contributing to biostatistical education and training efforts.
• Ability to coach colleagues and mentor junior staff biostatisticians.

Benefits

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