Statistician

Job Title:
Statistician

Reports to:
Research Manager

Term Length: 12 Months (Maternity Leave)

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Research Manager, the Statistician is responsible for providing statistical support to the organization, including the principal investigators, fellow colleagues, and the Research Manager.

The statistician will participate in the design of various research protocols and statistical analysis plans and will use a large range of statistical techniques to collect, analyze and summarize data.

Qualifications and Competencies:

Education:

• Masters Degree in Science, Public Health, Epidemiology, Community Health Sciences or a related discipline required.

Experience:

• Experience programming in SAS, SQL or similar programming language. Knowledge in developing SAS macros based on individual projects, to be shared with colleagues and partners.
• Experience in performing standard clinical epidemiological analyses including linear, logistic and Cox regression models.
• Ability to interpret and draw conclusions from complex statistical information.
• Experience conducting systematic reviews and meta‐analysis.
• Knowledge of Health economics including the efficacy and value of health care systems and related technologies. Experience conducting detailed cost analyses and budget impact analyses is required.
• Previous experience in the healthcare analytics field, such as public health or epidemiology, including data management, analysis and statistical reporting.
• Experience in chronic disease research is considered a strong asset.
• Expertise in accessing, linking and analyzing large administrative, clinical or other large datasets from multiple sources.
• Knowledge of coding systems in health care research is considered essential (e.g. ICD10‐CM codes).
• Previous experience in research proposal writing, report writing, and manuscript preparation for submission to peer‐reviewed journals.
• Previous experience in liaising with other academic investigators, industry partners, and public partners, lending his/her expertise in protocol development, methodology, statistical analysis and report/manuscript preparation.
• Detailed understanding of data management and administration, as well as clinical research processes, including obtaining ethical and institutional approvals.
• Maintaining particular attention to privacy, confidentiality and data integrity.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducts statistical analysis utilizing programs such as SAS, R, Python, Review Manager, or SPSS.
• Uses a variety of advanced statistical methods and programming techniques to clean large databases, develop retrospective cohorts, and analyze and interpret research data and results. Provides recommendations and implements new strategies for data collection platforms and techniques, including data quality improvement.
• Provides statistical consultation to colleagues, clients, and private or public partners.
• Creates detailed statistical analysis plans, research designs and description of analyses for reporting to colleagues or clients.
• Assists in the development and execution of detailed work plans in order to ensure timelines are met.
• Coordinates obtaining access and conducting linkages to large administrative and clinical databases, including obtaining ethical and institutional approvals.
• Creates protocols, written reports for partners or clients, and prepares and submit manuscripts for publication to academic journals.
• Assists with the submission of abstracts for conference presentations.
• Conducts presentations for academic and lay audiences, summarizing various research findings.
• Creates knowledge translation materials to explain research results to a variety of audiences.

Skills:

• Superior time management skills and ability to prioritize workload and competing deadlines.
• Organized, efficient and able to work independently.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work within a team‐oriented environment.
• Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Superior analytic, quantitative, research, critical thinking and problem‐solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and aptitude for research methodology
• Ability to communicate research findings to academic audiences, lay audiences, health policy makers and other key relevant stakeholders.

Other:

• Attends research conferences and symposiums as required.
• Communicates regularly with the Research Manager and Principal Investigators on assigned projects.

May be required to perform other duties as required, commensurate with skills and experience.

Adheres to all safety and health regulations and safe work practices.

Job Types:
Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Salary:
From $32.03 per hour

Expected hours: 38.75 per week

Benefits:

• Company events
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life in

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