Statistician

American College of Surgeons•Chicago, IL

4d•$75,000 - $85,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Statistician will support the CQI Statistics team by performing a variety of quantitative analytic functions. This role involves data management, quality assurance, and statistical analysis using various datasets and executing analytic plans under the guidance of senior staff. This exempt level position will report to the Manager, Statistical Analysis/Senior Statistician II in the Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care. It is based in our Chicago office and is a hybrid role: 3 days per week in the office/2 days per week remote.

Requirements

A master's degree in statistics, biostatistics, public health, social sciences, or related field with strong quantitative concentration is required.
Proficiency with SAS is required.
Experience with manipulating large data sets, data cleaning, transformation, and merging is required.
Experience performing exploratory data analysis and creating descriptive summaries is required.
Experience with statistical methods, such as linear and logistic multiple regression, model selection, mixed hierarchical models, and survival analysis, is required.
Good verbal communication skills are required, including the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Good written communication skills including grammatical/technical writing skills.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of statistical experience is preferred.
Python, R, or other transferable programming skill set for data manipulation and analysis is preferred.
Coursework or experience with Bayesian statistical methods is preferred.
Familiarity with SQL and Macros for handling structured data is preferred.
Experience with data visualization tools and basic report generation is preferred.

Responsibilities

Providing statistical guidance.
Evaluating data integrity.
Constructing statistical models for predictive purposes.
Reporting results in different formats appropriate for program leadership/staff, external stakeholders and research investigators.
Execute and define standardized analytic plans under supervision to support data analytics for assigned program.
Support relevant classification methods and contribute to predictive and prognostic modeling, statistical learning methods, employing machine learning and data science techniques.
Provide ad hoc analytics support to assigned program.
Contribute to custom research projects.
Evaluate data structure and integrity on an ongoing basis, determining whether data is consistent with expectations and whether specifications or data collection processes need to be changed.
Conduct data quality assurance testing for database deliverables.
Support relevant stakeholders in developing and releasing quality measures for rule-based logic implementation.
Write sections of reports and manuscripts dealing with methods and results.
Develop novel reports, under direction from senior staff, using applications such as SAS, R, Python.
Create visual reports and dashboards.
Provide customer support to program teams.
Coordinate meeting logistics for cross-departmental statistician meetings (e.g., NSQIP, Trauma).