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USAJOBS · 2 months ago

Research Statistician

Durham, North Carolina, USA

Full-time, Contract

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

USAJOBS is seeking a Without Compensation Research Statistician within the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The role focuses on promoting Veteran-centered care and improving patient outcomes through statistical analysis and data management in healthcare settings.

ConsultingGovernmentHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyInternetStaffing Agency

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Identify covariates related to clinical factors, background in clinical work and medical statistics, and health care cost analysis

Create an analytic file for the study cohort and generates documentation such as flow charts

Maintain data dictionaries and codebooks defining the independent variable, dependent variable, and covariates

Validate data and programs through checking of code, descriptive statistics, and graphical displays

Conduct univariate and multivariate statistical data analyses

Conduct multivariate regression analyses using a wide variety of models such as ordinary least squares, logistic, and survival models

Review analytical results for accuracy, completeness, and clinical relevance

Develop and maintains systems and databases designed to ensure that research projects comply with clinical best practices, administrative policies, procedures and requirements set forth by entities

Review and edit abstracts, posters, reports, and publications disseminating research findings

Qualification

Statistical analysisData managementRegression analysisMedical statisticsDatabase programsAttention to detailCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy

Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959

Subject to background/security investigation

Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP)

Experience: You must possess general experience with collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data related to hypertension research; more specifically blood pressure control, medication use patterns, and healthcare utilization in Veterans; using statistical and database computer programs to clean, construct and manage datasets and databases relevant to medical research projects

Education: A. Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc

Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods

OR Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of experience and education that includes courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education

The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social)

Physical Requirements: The work is predominantly sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there will be some walking, standing, bending and carrying of items of moderate weight such as large binders, banker style file boxes, meeting materials, papers, books or small parts

Hand and eye coordination for delicate testing procedures may be the only special physical demand required to perform the work

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications