Senior Biostatistician

EM Key Solutions • Silver Spring, MD

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

EMKS is seeking a Senior Biostatistician to support the Defense Health Administration Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence. The role involves evaluating and analyzing TBI outcomes data, providing expertise in the development, analysis, interpretation, and management of outcomes data sources. This position requires a strong background in biostatistics, analytic approaches to data management, and outcomes measurement.

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of quantitative methods (from mathematics and statistics) for dealing with methodological and analytic problems.
• Scientific writing skills; ability to write and communicate effectively to scientific/technical audiences as well as non-scientific/technical audiences.
• Extensive knowledge of a standard statistical software library (e.g., SAS, STATA or SPSS) and database design.
• Research methods and theory in health research related discipline; data analysis and interpretation skills.
• Doctoral degree (e.g., Ph.D., D.Ph.) in biostatistics, or epidemiology is required. A PhD in a related field with appropriate biostatistics experience may be considered, through a waiver process with input from the government.
• A minimum of 7 years' experience in healthcare data analysis and research.
• Demonstrated experience developing and leading clinical or translational research.
• Must complete CITI/ HIPAA training.
• A T3 Security Clearance is required.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with TBI and prior experience with DoD/VA systems preferred.
• Experience in reading medical charts preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement outcomes projects to contribute to knowledge about outcomes and health care delivery in traumatic brain injury, brain health, and cognitive monitoring.
• Perform statistical analyses, power analyses, and technical/methodological consultations as needed to support internal and external TBI stakeholders.
• Assist in the preparation of any resulting proposals, protocols, manuscripts, posters, or presentations.
• Disseminate outcome results with meaningful analysis through presentations to scientific and professional groups, publications in scientific and professional peer-reviewed journals, and additional communities of interest.
• Translate findings from outcomes data and/or current research into meaningful conclusions and provide scientific and health policy leadership.
• Track trends in analytics and develop novel means to display and disseminate results across a variety of audiences, including peers in the scientific community, military leaders, health policy advocates, TBICoE and MHS leadership, the TBI Advisory Committee, and other clinical communities.
• Provide service to the professional and scientific community through membership on scientific peer review groups and national policy and advisory boards.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer committed to hiring and retaining qualified and talented individuals.
• Will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
• As a Federal Contractor, we are required to use E-Verify to validate employees' ability to work legally in the United States.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree