Biostatistician III

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A Brief Overview
Provides expert biostatistical services for investigators, including analyses, data preparation, and writing of statistical results, primarily maintaining independence; provides oversight and mentorship to junior biostatisticians.

What you will do

• Biostatistician III is a mostly independent and collaborative role that builds upon the II position based on demonstrated increase of mastery of methods application, programming, interpretation, and communication. The role largely works as a standalone peer within teams that include one or more biomedical domain experts. Management of this role is usually provided on a weekly/biweekly basis with emphasis on study-level issues.
• Leads all aspects of study design, appropriate variables and methods, data formatting, and anomaly identification and resolution in collaboration with study team.
• Leads development of a statistical analysis plan that includes methods, programming procedures, variable definition, and data handling rules and procedures.
• Investigates increasingly complex methods for inclusion into projects.
• Advocates for and enables adoption of advances in methods and workflow to peers and more junior staff.
• Applies advanced level of statistical programming to clean and interrogate data, view diagnostics elements of data such as underlying distributions and parameters, implement optimal statistical methods, interpret and export key visuals and results.
• Validates and documents methods such that both more junior statisticians and domain experts may understand and replicate.
• Actively mentors junior staff on methodology and analytical tasks within projects.
• Provides analysis services for grant applications.
• Independently leads analytical portion of study team academic output by writing methods, results, and interpretation for manuscript publication, authoring abstracts, and presenting at professional conferences with limited review.
• Recommends protocol, workflow, or data management changes based on results.
• Leads communication of research methods, implementation, and results to varied audience of clinicians, scientists, analysts, and programmers.
• Leads critical assessment of computational and algorithmic approaches to address assigned biomedical research questions.
• Tracks project activities for reporting and billing purposes.

Education Qualifications

• Master's Degree Required
• Doctorate Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least five (5) years experience with progressively more complex applied statistics. Required
• At least five (5) years applied experience in using one or more common statistical language programs. Required
• At least seven (7) years with progressively more complex applied statistics Preferred
• At least seven (7) years in using one or more common statistical language programs Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced proficiency in programming and application of common statistical methods in medical and clinical research such as SAS, STATA, R or another commonly accepted analytical programming language.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to a lay audience.
• Detail-oriented with excellent validation and documentation skills.
• High level of personal initiative; ability to work independently as well as collaborate in teams and with people from multiple business and scientific areas.
• Advanced proficiency in UNIX and/or Windows OS.

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SALARY RANGE:

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