Biostatistician

Location:

Avera Research Institute-Sioux Falls

Worker Type:
Regular

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Pay Range:
The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience. $70,720.00 - $

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Avera Research Institute

You Belong at Avera Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

Provides essential statistical expertise to our research team and will apply statistical methods to analyze health outcomes data. Key responsibilities include contributing to the design and analysis of research questions, drafting analytic plans, and preparing manuscripts and technical reports. The Biostatistician will present and communicate statistical interpretations to a variety of audiences with different technical backgrounds. Additionally, they will handle data processing, cleaning, analysis, and the documentation and dissemination of findings.

The Biostatistician will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members to achieve project goals, ensuring high-quality and reliable analytical outcomes.

Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates complex data, using the proper methodology, testing standards, and evaluation processes for research questions. Ensures data integrity by performing data management including database creation and maintenance, and development of essential data cleaning and checks. Leads the organization and creation of documents and tables related to datasets; communicates with staff and researchers about data accuracy and data dictionaries.

In collaboration with research investigators, contributes to the design of research studies, develops analytical plans, conducts statistical analyses and summarizes results. Leads the planning of statistical programming activities and schedules to provide investigators with time frames for projects. Prepares quality figures, tables, statistical methods, and results to summarize analyses for journal publications and reports. Reliable, professional, careful and thorough, with the ability to be adaptable and innovative in conducting statistical analyses.

Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team environment and manage / prioritize multiple projects to ensure their quality and on-time delivery. Well-developed analytical, organizational, oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated strong ability to communicate technical ideas and results to non-technical audiences in written and verbal formats.

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

• Master's Biostatistics, Epidemiology or related field plus 5 years of demonstrated experience
• PhD Biostatistics, Epidemiology or related field
• Demonstrated experience managing data from the following types of study design: cross-sectional, case-control, nested case-control, case-cohort, longitudinal, and randomized controlled trials
• Demon…