Epidemiologist

General Dynamics Information Technology • Silver Spring, MD

1d • $83,927 - $113,549 • Hybrid

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Epidemiologist supporting a Federal Health Organization. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Epidemiologist our work depends on taking pride in providing our clients with the data, they need to make important decisions that impact the world around us. You will be engaged in the analysis of very large datasets to estimate the incidence and prevalence of disease and injury in military populations.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in epidemiology, biostatistics or public health (or related field)
• 2+ years of related experience in health surveillance and/or applied epidemiology
• Demonstrated experience in health data analyses using SAS
• Experience in using Microsoft Office software (MS Outlook; MS Word; MS Excel; and MS PowerPoint)
• Team player who collaborates well with other professionals
• Must have good written and verbal communication skills
• US Citizenship Required
• Must be secret clearable

Nice To Haves

• Prefer candidates to have secret clearance or NACLC-T3

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of contractor, government, and military public health professionals on health surveillance efforts
• Conduct descriptive and complex epidemiologic and statistical analyses on acute and chronic disease and injury data sets in SAS
• Support the dissemination of the results of surveillance efforts and other studies via technical reports, briefings, presentations, and manuscripts
• Incorporate feedback on the accuracy and efficiency of your SAS code from senior epidemiologists and use it to improve your own SAS coding for specific projects

Benefits

• Medical plan options
• Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time
• Holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Military leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level