Biostatistician, Public Health Sciences

The Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia is seeking candidates for staff Biostatistician.

The Biostatistician will work and collaborate with faculty and members in the Department of Public Health Sciences in the Division of Translational Research and Applied Statistics, as well as other investigators in the UVA School of Medicine, on multiple clinical and basic science research projects. They conduct programming assignments, write and review code, maintain and modify programs, and test and document modifications. They also analyze program performance, and take action if needed, consults with departmental users, collaborates on and supports research projects, providing study specific status reports, and research publication and grant proposal support.

Specific duties include the following:

• 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.
  
• Prioritize multiple concurrent tasks as research needs and study demands dictate.
  
• Work independently and under minimal supervision to perform programming tasks, select and apply appropriate programming methods, and ensure work meets a high standard of quality and reproducibility.
  
• Other duties as assigned
  

May partially work from home with division director's approval.

Requirements:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in biostatistics, data science, computer science, or closely related
  
• 12 months experience as a biostatistician (which may have been full time or part time and may have been earned before or after conferral of the master's degree. Experience must have included working in SAS or R and must have included data management (capture and manipulation), statistical analysis, and research manuscript writing.
  

To Apply:

Please apply through Careers at UVA , and search for R0063511.

Internal applicants must apply through their UVA Workday profile by searching 'Find Jobs" and search for R0063511.

Complete an application online with the following documents:

• CV
  
• Cover letter
  

Upload all materials into the resume submission field, multiple documents can be submitted into this one field. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission. Applications that do not contain all required documents will not receive full consideration.

For questions about the application process, please contact Yelena Markazyan, Academic Recruiter at ym3mm@virginia.edu

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