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JOB TITLE:   Statistical Research Associate III

DUTIES:              

• Collaborate with Ph.D. statisticians/epidemiologists, Statistical Research Associates (SRAs), laboratory scientists, laboratory data managers, and other subject-matter experts to provide statistical support for clinical studies and research projects or laboratory data and analyses including statistical considerations and planning (power and sample size calculations), randomization lists, consultation, study data analyses, and written summaries and tables of results for use in study reports.
• Contribute to and review study documents including protocol drafts, statistical analysis plans, case report forms, and other documents.
• Collaborate with data management and operations in the development of quality assurance procedures for on-going data collection, cleaning and analysis. Ensure data consistency, reconciles anomalies, and follow good data management and reproducibility practice.
• Participate in and lead verification of standard reports prepared by programmers or other team members. Perform interim and final analyses, and prepare tables, listing, and figures for use in study reports and publications.
• Apply and adhere to CDISC data standards and guidelines where required in the production of analysis datasets and reports. Assist in the production of supporting CDISC documentation for submissions.
• Generate written summaries for use in customized statistical reports.
• Participate in and lead when appropriate protocol team conference calls and meetings, organizational meetings, interim data review meetings, scientific meetings, regional meetings and internal team meetings.
• Maintain functional understanding of standard policies and procedures and complete required training in a timely manner. Contribute to the development and maintenance of standard procedures and related quality documents.
• Participate in internal project initiatives which include developing new tools and processes, evaluating new statistical software packages, and exploring other value-added team activities.
• Represent SCHARP and the data analytics team at professional meetings.
• Mentor or formally supervise more junior SRAs as required. Conduct performance reviews of direct reports.

Telecommuting possible, subject to Fred Hutch's legal/regulatory authorization to employ workers in the requested remote worksite.

REQUIRES:         

1. Master's degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, or Public Health with a Biostatistics emphasis, or a directly related field, or the foreign degree equivalent;
2. Base SAS Programmer for SAS 9 Certification; and,
3. Three (3) years of experience with statistical programming in SAS, R, and/or Stata statistical software. Must include three (3) years of experience with each of the following:

• Preparation of formal statistical analysis plans/methods;
• Manuscript writing and analysis support;
• Data management from multiple sources;
• Statistical reporting;
• Generalized linear regression;
• Cluster analysis;
• Longitudinal analysis;
• Mixed effects models;
• Generalized Estimating Equation;
• As a statistical researcher collaborating with D. statisticians and/or epidemiologists; and
• As a statistical researcher in a large research consortium.

Must include one (1) year of experience with each of the following:

• Predictive Modeling;
• Data security and integrity;
• Mentorship of more junior statistical research staff;
• Missing data handling; and
• Preparation of statistical analysis templates.

Experience can be gained concurrently.