BIOSTATISTICIAN II
- Employer
- Duke University
- Location
- Durham, NC
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
BIOSTATISTICIAN II
Biostat & Bioinformatics Chairs Office
Occupational Summary
Under the guidance of the CTSI Biostatistics Core management team in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, perform intermediate-level statistical analysis and programming for a broad range of medical research projects. Collaborate closely with a cross-functional project team, physicians, lab scientists, and graduate students with regard to statistical aspects of each project.
Work primarily with collaborators at the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), which has more than 80 faculty members from across the university and health system. DGHI's research mission is to reduce health disparities locally and globally with research areas including, but not limited to, malaria, maternal and child health, and global mental health. Potential collaborators, some of whom are based overseas, include epidemiologists, economists, psychologists, engineers, physicians, lab scientists, and graduate students. Research projects at DGHI include both observational and experimental studies, with the cluster randomized design the most commonly used experimental design. Most projects involve primary data collection and take place in a range of countries around the world. These projects, therefore, provide a unique opportunity to develop a diverse portfolio of skills and to gain expertise in numerous areas of research. As such, this position is ideal for a motivated and enthusiastic individual who is flexible and pragmatic in their approach to scientific research.
Responsibilities
Collaboration, communication, leadership, and project management
- Collaborate effectively with programmers, statisticians (both junior and senior), medical personnel, methodologists, and representatives within Duke and the broader research community under the guidance of a supervising biostatistician/methodologist.
- Contribute constructively to project discussions in team meetings.
- Demonstrate excellent written and oral proficiency in the English language.
- Develop leadership and communication skills and share them with others.
- Serve as a resource for other statisticians.
- Describe statistical methods and results to fellow biostatisticians/methodologists as well as to broader audiences with less statistical expertise such as research faculty and staff.
- Adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) of the functional department as they apply to documentation and validation of research methodology.
- Manage project responsibilities with decreasing levels of supervision or regular support.
- Take initiative to complete project-specific responsibilities with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrate ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
- Build documentation and organizational skills to effectively return to a project or manuscript after long intervals and in such a way that facilitates an easy transition when another methodologist joins the project.
Statistical analysis planning, generation, and interpretation
- Perform intermediate-level statistical analysis at all phases of a research project, from protocol development and study design through final analysis and reporting of results, with guidance from a faculty or supervising biostatistician/methodologist.
- Evaluate research studies and recommend statistical procedures, including, but not limited to, hypothesis tests, regression models and multivariate analysis to analyze the data.
- Contribute meaningfully to discussions of analyses and identify next steps for analyses.
- Prepare statistical analysis plans under the guidance of faculty or supervising biostatistician.
- Prepare comprehensive statistical reports to communicate findings with investigators
- Prepare statistical components of presentations, abstracts, study protocols, and manuscripts.
- Learn new statistical methods as needed, and apply new skills to future projects.
- Perform intermediate and advanced statistical analyses, including but not limited to generating descriptive and test statistics, and performing high-level statistical modelling.
- Check results for accuracy and consistency.
Programming and data documentation
- Program and develop analysis datasets using SAS or R; combine multiple disparate raw data sets, execute standard cleaning and quality control procedures, and derive analytic variables as required.
- Demonstrate good programming practices through proper documentation, commenting, and readability.
- Perform complex programming using advanced options in SAS procedures and macros, or R functions with increasing efficiency.
- Participate actively in the statistical team responsible for designing and validating analysis data sets, programs, and statistical output products (tables, listings, figures).
- Perform appropriate and adequate code checks to ensure accuracy of results.
Requisition Number
401532770
Location
Durham
Duke Entity
MEDICAL CENTER
Job Code
2681 BIOSTATISTICIAN II
Job Family Level
80
Exempt/Non-Exempt
Exempt
Full Time / Part Time
FULL TIME
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Shift
First/Day
Minimum Qualifications
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employercommitted to providing employment opportunity without regard to anindividual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, genderidentity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex,sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation,creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robustexchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity ofour perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achievethis exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feelsecure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals arerespected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our communityhave a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions:Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System mayinclude essential job functions that require specific physical and/ormental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests forreasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Education
Work requires a minimum of a Master's degree in (bio)statistics orrelated field and no relevant experience, or a bachelors degree in (bio)statistics or related field and 2 years relevant experience, or anequivalent combination or relevant education and/or work experience.
Experience
OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCEPrior contribution to analysis of research projects, a working knowledgeof SAS, and solid command of the English language is required.
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Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
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Organization
History
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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