Research Biostatistician

**Req ID: 162770**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Central Zone, Centre for Clinical Research - QEII**
**Department: RSH Methods Unit**
**Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union Position**
**Posting Closing Date: 1-Sep-23**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health’s Research, Innovation and Discovery portfolio is transforming health care delivery and improving the health of all Nova Scotians by leading initiatives that deliver high-impact health care solutions and developing strategic partnerships with clinical champions, industry, healthcare foundations, governments and academic partners. By pairing leading researchers, innovators, and clinicians with entrepreneurs through our newly formed Health Innovation, Research and Discovery Hub, their creative solutions are improving health and health care while also contributing directly to Nova Scotia’s economy.

**About The Position**:
Working closely with the Senior Biostatistician and reporting to the Manager, Research Methods Unit, the Biostatistician supports clinical and health researchers in the statistical leadership, consultation and service to clinical investigators within the Research Methods Unit. The Biostatistician assists in the promotion and support of clinical and health research in partnership across the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the IWK Health Centre teaching hospitals, and Dalhousie University’s Faculties of Medicine, Health Professions and Dentistry. In collaboration with RMU’s senior biostatisticians, function as biostatistician for the Research Methods Unit in providing consulting support in all aspects of biostatistical service provision, proactively collaborate with user groups to identify biostatistical research methods needs for projects and work interactively to address such needs.

The biostatistician will be responsible for formulating research questions that translate into hypotheses in a form amenable to statistical analysis framed within suitable study designs. Develop statistical methodology and analysis plans for descriptive, analytic, and experimental cross-sectional and longitudinal study designs including Randomized Clinical Trials (RCTs) and observational studies. Run study sample size calculations and create randomization lists for treatment allocation in RCTs.

**Qualifications**:

- M.Sc. in biostatistics or statistics - with a significant focus on biostatistics or the analysis of health research - or epidemiology required
- Experience in a clinical research environment considered an asset
- Professional Statistician accreditation from the Statistical Society of Canada (or qualification within one year of hiring)
- High level of proficiency in statistics or biostatistics
- Proficiency with statistical methods
- Strong computer programming skills
- Proficiency in computer software packages for database management and statistical software packages (e.g., SAS, R, or STATA )
- Develop coding schemes and data dictionaries for databases in conjunction with data manager and Principal Investigators (PI’s). Clean and configure data.
- Write complex programs to process and summarize data. Conduct statistical analyses and interpret results of statistical analysis. Contribute to the writing of manuscripts, abstracts, slide presentations, and posters.

**Abilities**:

- Ability to successfully work in a multi-institutional clinical research methods service environment as a senior member of a team
- Ability/willingness to establish efficient, consistent and coherent standard operating procedures for biostatistician contributions to research projects
- Commitment to literate data analysis to ensure statistical analysis and data management code is documented, replicable, transferable and publishable
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work to deadlines and within budget
- Excellent communication skills including advanced written and spoken English skills
- Ability to effectively communicate statistical methods and results to clinical researchers who may have limited biostatistics training
- We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using the following tools: written test, interview and reference checks.
- Successful Applicants are required to provide a