Job Vacancy at University of Michigan, Michigan, United States

Position: Statistician

Position summary

The Department of Surgery at Michigan Medicine invites qualified Intermediate or Senior Statistician to join the team. S/he will statistical design, development, and analysis on a wide range of projects with medical students, residents, and faculty. Furthermore, the position also involves responsibilities for data management, data programming, and analytic needs related to multiple research projects and programs. The position reports directly to the Surgery Education Scientist for the Department of Surgery.

In addition to that, the Statistician will do the following tasks

• Understand research project and proposal designs and requirements.
• Write, test and implement programs based on the analytic design of the project or proposal using SAS or STATA or R to clean, manage, merge, and analyze data.
• Develop statistical analyses for presentation, discussion, and publication with multiple faculty members;
• Contribute to study reports or manuscripts by preparing tables, graphs, methods, results and other data displays.
• Aid in proposal writing.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Participate as a team member in discussions on analysis and improvement of data collection, quality of data analyses, programming, and documentation.
• Direct experience in supporting, managing and analyzing major research projects using large data administrative data sets such as Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance.
• Furthermore, conducting power and sample size calculations.

Requirements (Intermediate level)

• Degrees in related fields with strong computing and quantitative skills will be considered.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field. In addition to that, 1-3 years experience using statistical analysis software (e.g. Stata, SAS, R);
• Knows and can apply the fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of quantitative research. Also, the ability to program, manage data and conduct statistical analysis.

Requirements (Senior level)

• Degrees in related fields with strong computing and quantitative skills will be considered. However, a bachelors degree in a related field, master’s degree strongly preferred.
• 3 – 5 years of experience using statistical analysis software (e.g. Stata, SAS, R).
• Possesses and able to apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of quantitative research to the completion of difficult assignments.
• Similarly, should be able to program, manage data, and conduct statistical analysis.

About the University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is the public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.  Its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as well as professional degrees in architecture, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work, public health, and dentistry. Michigan’s body of living alumni comprises more than 540,000 people. Also, it is one of the largest alumni bases of any university in the world.  As of October 2018, 50 MacArthur Fellows, 25 Nobel Prize winners, 6 Turing Award winners, and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with the University of Michigan.