Biostatistician

Job Description
Seeking a Biostatistician to support our Biomedical and Environmental Research Department for Science and Space division.
The Biostatistician will provide professional leadership, consulting skills, and expertise in the application of statistical theory and practice in support of ongoing investigations in the NASA-Johnson Space Center Human Health and Performance Directorate. Responsibilities include critically analyzing clinical and research data, assimilating findings through the application of statistical principles and practices requiring comprehensive expertise, building visualizations to convey results, and effectively communicating methods and results to a variety of technical and management audiences with varying levels of statistical knowledge.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a statistical expert consultant for assigned research and occupational surveillance projects using clinical and experiment biomedical data.
• Assist with study design and develop statistical plans for data analysis in support of proposed research questions.
• Participate in statistical reviews of ongoing projects to ensure appropriateness of statistical methodology, verify quality and accuracy of statistical analyses, and ensure accurate reporting and interpretation of analyses.
• Develop statistical deliverables (i.e., analysis plans, methodology and statistical results sections, interpretation of results) for data requests, clinical reports, presentations, and manuscripts.
• Assist with preparation of data summary charts as required.
• Effectively communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians (managers, researchers in other fields, etc.).
• Draft and edit reports and manage long-term progression of papers, presentations or poster sessions, and NASA reports.
• Participate in biostatistics team meetings to foster use of best practices and effective communication and collaboration among research and epidemiology groups.
• Participate and present information in biostatistics and epidemiology technical information exchange meetings and educational forums.
• Collaborate with team to design and develop Client statistical methods needed to analyze biomedical data.
• Other tasks as directed.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with multiple types of statistical analysis methods including generalized linear and nonlinear models with repeated measures, non-parametric modeling and analysis, mixed method modeling, Bayesian analysis, survival analysis, longitudinal evaluation of data, and techniques for dealing with missing data.
• Ability to be creative in developing tailor-made methods for analyzing "small-n data sets
• Strong knowledge of statistical methods, including advanced inferential statistical theory and methodology that can be applied to a variety of dependent measures.
• Demonstrated familiarity with statistical software such as SAS, Stata, or R with a minimum of 3 years' experience in writing analysis code.
• Demonstrated knowledge in study design and statistical approaches.
• Superior analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including effectively explaining complex statistical concepts to non-statisticians.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary setting.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent tasks and seek direction on competing priorities.
• Maintain current Client Human Subjects Research - Biomedical Research certification.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Candidates must meet the requirements listed below to be considered for this position; please note required items on your resume.

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.

Education:

• PhD degree in Biostatistics or Statistics with at least 5 years of relevant work

Desired Skills
PREFERRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE :

• Experience in the design, development, and execution of research grant proposals as well as the ability to document results for peer-reviewed publications.
• Experience with the statistical complexities of working with clinical care (EHR) /human physiological data.
• Successful experience working both independently and as part of a team on multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated experience with collaborations supporting multiple research disciplines/specialties.
• Experience developing data visualizations in Tableau, R Shiny, or similar.

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