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Statistician

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Apr 9, 2018

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Job Purpose

We are looking to appoint an experienced Statistician/ Epidemiologist to join the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU) to support the clinical research being undertaken by the unit.

The post holder will play a key role in the development and evaluation of research into surgical practice as part of the recently funded National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery to be led by the University of Birmingham. The post holder will work and be line managed within the Statistics Team at BCTU. They will provide methodological/ statistical advice and support for clinical trials, observational studies and systematic reviews in the area of surgery in low and middle income countries within the NIHR Global Surgery Unit.

Person Specification

• MSc or PhD in Statistics or Epidemiology, or a relevant higher degree.
• Significant experience (at least 5 years) of working as an applied medical statistician or epidemiologist, with experience of applying statistical techniques for medical problems.
• Significant experience in medical statistics, clinical trials and observational studies, specifically the design and writing of study protocols and the analysis, reporting and publication of results.
• Experience of applying statistical techniques e.g. linear, logistic and Cox regression, analysis of variance, repeated measures, survival analysis.
• Experience in statistical programming, preferably in SAS and/or STATA.
• Experience of computer-based database management and data extraction/reporting techniques (preferably Access/SQL).
• Experience and demonstrated success in planning, undertaking and project managing statistical aspects of clinical research to deliver high quality results.
• Experience of writing grant applications.
• Experience in writing reports and papers for publication

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