Biostatistician III

Description: The Biostatistician III will assume a statistical lead within a team of statisticians to carry out all statistical tasks and responsibilities within a wide range of collaborative research studies, including clinical trials, varying from small phase 1 to large phase 3 studies across many different study designs and disease areas. A great degree of leadership and initiative is expected of the Biostatistician III.

Major duties and responsibilities:

• Prepare statistical sections of proposals/protocols and contribute to overall study design
• Prepare statistical analysis plans
• Prepare data monitoring plans
• Create programming specifications and mock Tables, Figures, and Listings
• Produce interim and final statistical analysis reports
• Participate in the authoring of manuscripts
• Perform validation and peer review
• Attend professional meetings and short courses to expand or maintain professional knowledge and expertise, and participate in informal seminars and training sessions within the organization
• Assume a leadership role within Frontier Science or on specific projects to which the organization plays a major role. This may include:
  • Organize internal seminars or similar knowledge sharing sessions within the organization
  • Mentor junior or new hire statistical, epidemiological, or statistical programming staff at Frontier Science
  • Participate in scientific committees of major networks
  • Serve in a formal leadership capacity for Frontier Science

Reports to: Office Director

Required qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in biostatistics, statistics, or closely related field
• At least 20 years of experience as a Biostatistician, or similar position, along with a proven record of success
• Experience with major statistical computing packages, such as SAS and R
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including scientific writing
• Experience working with clinical trials research