Cancer Research Specialist

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PHSA Full time
Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of population-based epidemiologic, clinical, and health services research for cancer control.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and conducting epidemiologic, clinical, methodologic, and health service research activities in collaboration with healthcare professionals and other relevant stakeholders within the PHSA and as external partners.
  • Developing new cancer control research projects with a population, clinical, or health services perspective by researching current knowledge, designing research plans, addressing data issues, and identifying statistical approaches.
  • Conducting cancer control research projects with a population, clinical, or health services perspective by developing and revising ethics applications, recruiting subjects, collecting data, manipulating large administrative datasets, carrying out data analyses, and interpreting and presenting research results to healthcare professionals and other relevant stakeholders.
  • Documenting the design, results, and interpretation of epidemiologic, clinical, and health service research studies in scientific manuscripts and research reports for dissemination to researchers and internal and external partners.
  • Developing research grant proposals and reports to funding agencies.
Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

  • A Master's degree in Epidemiology, Public or Population Health, Statistics, Biostatistics, or a related discipline.
  • A minimum of one to two years of recent related experience in a population health or academic research environment.
  • Knowledge of population health research issues and demonstrated competence in the application of epidemiologic, health services, and statistical methods to cancer control studies.
  • Knowledge of study design, data collection, and analysis.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform advanced data manipulation, analysis, and information presentation through the use of database, spreadsheet, and statistical software.
  • Working knowledge of cancer control and health systems.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
  • Ability to collaborate and work within a team while working independently.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to comprehend complex issues and related data/information and present information in concise and meaningful ways.
  • Demonstrated organizational skills to generate work plans to meet project deadlines within timeline, scope, and budget.
  • Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks.

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