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BIOSTATISTICAL CONSULTANT III

Posted Date  Tue Jul 15, 2008
Closing Date  Mon Jul 21, 2008 or until filled
Salary  * Negotiable *
FLSA Status  Exempt
Department  Clinical Sciences
Job Category  Research & Laboratory Support
Hours  M-F 8AM-5PM
Requisition Number  08003790
Position Number  39345
Experience & Education Required (any one of the following):

1. Master's degree in statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, psychology, or mathematics and 6 years experience as Programmer Analyst I or equivalent; use of major statistical packages (SAS, SPSSx, or BMDP), and 1 year computing experience programming with mainframe and DOS-based computer.  

Skills And Abilities Effective Communications Skills
Customer Service
Security This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
 Job Duties 1. Provides statistical programming for required analyses using SAS software on PC mainframe computers; provides data entry if needed.

2. Consults with faculty, staff, and students about statistical problems.

3. Interprets and writes up statistical results, including tables and graphs in language understandable by client; reviews results with user; reviews manuscripts if client desires.

4. Troubleshoots programming, checking results and reports for accuracy.

5. Keeps current in statistical methods and computing skills; researches to find techniques for nonstandard statistical analyses.

6. Records time for billing clients and reviews monthly bills.

7. Team-teaches "Critical Reading of Literature" course.

8. May supervise biostatistical consultants and/or data entry operators of lower grade.

9. Performs other duties as assigned.

 Comments Familiar with s-plus/R, SAS procedures MIXED, GENMOD, NLMIXED,LIFETEST,LIFEREG,PHREG. microarry analysis and relational datab ases desired  

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