Statistician - Biostatistics Unit

**Reference: 23-103_SS_RB**

**IDIBELL is looking for **a Statistician to incorporate within the Biostatistics Unit**

**About the research group**

The Biostatistics Unit of IDIBELL offers methodological and statistical consulting services to researchers at the IDIBELL campus, as well as to other public and private entities. Services provided range from study planning to data analysis and assistance with interpretation of the results. The department also offers seminars and training courses.

Our mission is to provide professional methodological guidance to clinical research in the different medical specialties, and sub-specialties. Our goal is to collaborate with teams in any step of the whole research process, not just to serve as a resource that tackles a complex analysis, in compliance with the ethical and scientific quality standards and the principles of good clinical practice.

**About the role**
- Statistical and methodological advice for empirical studies in medical sciences, including experimental (clinical trials) and observational studies (prevalence, cohorts and others).
- Guidance for the research plan-schedule: selection of the design-method, random allocation, sampling procedure (recruitment of sample), sample size calculation and analytic-statistical plan.
- Database structure designs, and data management.
- Advanced statistical data analysis: generalized linear models, survival analysis, generalized equation estimation models and classification methods, such as cluster and latent analysis.
- Psychometric analysis: exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis. Reliability and validity analysis.
- Advice for elaborating scientific reports, including advice for interpretation of results, and review of scientific articles.
- Occasional teaching of methodology and statistics in medicine and health sciences.

**Job requirements**

Professional experience
- 3 years of experience performing the functions of a BioStatistician

Education and training
- Master’s Degree in the profile (health informatics, statistics, data science, or a closely related field)

Technical and personal skills
- Knowledge of general statistical packages (R)
- Team player with ability to learn new skills, tasks and technologies and teach other

Languages
- English C-level

**We will value, but not required**
- Knowledge of database packages (RedCap, ACCESS, Oracle,)
- Knowledge of general statistical packages (SAS, SPSS, Stata, Mplus,)
- Presentation of research empirical studies in congresses, conferences...
- Participation in research teams
- Publication of research empirical articles
- Presentation of research empirical studies in congresses, conferences,

**What do we offer**
- ** Nº of positions: 1**:

- **Start date: as soon as possible**:

- **Contract duration: Permanent**:

- **Estimated annual gross salary**: it is commensurate with qualifications and consistent with our pay ranges.
- You will be part of a **multicultural team**. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
- **Flexible working schedule**:

- We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way.
- Benefits of constant training are offered.
- We offer and promote diverse and inclusive conditions. Applicants are made free from any discrimination.

**Application**
- A CV including contact information
- Letter of recommendation

**Selection process**

**Data protection notice**

**Our institute**

IDIBELL is a research center that integrates the biomedical research of the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), and the University of Barcelona in the Bellvitge Campus (UB), and the Viladecans Hospital (HV). The research focuses of IDIBELL are cancer, neuroscience, translational medicine and regenerative medicine. Research, innovation and society are the pivots on which researchers work every day in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.

**Observations**

The 'HR Excellence in Research' award represents IDIBELL’s commitment to the implementation of Human Resources policies, which oversee the attracting and development of talent in an open, transparent, and based on personal merit, in alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment Researchers (Charter and Code).

IDIBELL is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the implementation of open, transparent and merit-based recruitment (OTMR).