Associate Biostatistician

Overview

The Department of Biostatistics e Children’s Research Hospital is seeking a Staff Biostatistician to support and advance St. Jude’s mission that no child dies in the dawn of life. This position is housed in the Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR) and provides opportunities to collaborate on a wide range of basic, translational, clinical and population-science research projects across the institution.

The successful candidate will work closely with Biostatistics faculty, collaborating with clinical, population, and/or laboratory scientists in a multidisciplinary team science environment. The Associate Biostatistician provides knowledge in statistical analysis to institutional staff interested in conducting clinical or experimental studies or to other researchers as designated by grant relationships.

Key responsibilities include applying appropriate statistical and data science methods to support a wide range of biomedical research projects, collaborating with Biostatistics faculty, clinicians, population scientists, and laboratory scientists to develop study objectives and analytic strategies, conducting analyses ranging from standard statistical workflows to more computationally intensive approaches, depending on project needs, and contributing to abstracts, manuscripts, and other scholarly publications or reports.

The candidate will also provide statistical and/or epidemiological analysis, perform data QA/QC, data management, programming for data preparation, and prepare analysis reports with graphical and table presentations, descriptions of methods, interpretation of findings, and valid inferences. Work under general guidance of a supervising faculty or designee and perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.

Maintain regular and predictable attendance.