Research Scientist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• MD, PhD or master's degree and/or relative experience in health services research, biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, health policy or other social science field
• Capability to succeed in research, as demonstrated by development of specific content-area expertise, lead, or senior authorship on refereed publications, and/or invited presentations
• Demonstrated potential to meaningfully contribute to research projects, as well as securing funding for new projects consistent with the Arbor Research mission
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to travel, including international, with several nights away from home per year

Nice To Haves

• Maintains familiarity with modern quality assurance standards and tools.
• Champions automated testing and test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all QA across all systems and ensure there is a process in place for issue resolution across all teams/orgs.
• Lead a team of Quality assurance analysts that design and execute software tests to identify problems and learn how the software works.
• Oversee, develop and execute comprehensive suites of automation test plans and test cases, maintaining and adding to existing automation framework, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in regression, automation for new features, and development of toolsets to augment QA and development testing.
• Contribute to major research projects and provide input into new directions for existing program areas.
• Participate in successful proposals for new research studies that meaningfully support or extend Arbor Research’s portfolio. Lead proposals for supplementary support, including individual training grants.
• Develop and carry out methodological and/or applied research leading to peer-reviewed publications, reports to sponsoring agencies, and other dissemination strategies.
• Provide scientific and operational oversight for research projects.
• Work with a Project Manager to oversee the management of individual and team tasks and timelines.
• Make significant contributions to study protocol development and analytic approaches.
• Provide mentorship and/or guidance to the analytic staff.
• Present seminars, talks, and lectures externally on behalf of Arbor Research, and internally for staff advancement and education.
• Work creatively to identify additional ways to translate research findings into improving health services practice and policy.
• Lead projects including those focused on providing expert technical assistance to clients or health care organizations, implementation of health policies or health care delivery models, monitoring, program evaluation, and learning collaboratives.
• Provide operational oversight for projects, often including as a project director, deputy project director, or task lead.
• Build and maintain relationships with project sponsors, external partners, and internal managers and staff.