CDC Foundation is hiring a
Senior Statistician

Summary

The job is for a Senior Statistician at the CDC Foundation, working remotely with occasional travel. The role involves leading technical assistance, performing data analysis, overseeing data quality assurance, and developing predictive models related to stillbirths. A PhD or Master’s degree in relevant fields with 5 years of experience is required.

Requirements

• PhD or Master’s degree in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, public health, or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD or 7 years' work experience with a master’s degree as a Statistician, Epidemiologist or in a related field

Responsibilities

• Lead technical assistance to support selected jurisdictions in strategies to strengthen surveillance efforts, including data collection and guidance on statistical analysis of stillbirth data
• Provide technical advice to internal and external peers and senior managers on programmatic and analytic direction in applied epidemiology, study design, project planning, and scientific writing
• Support the analysis of risk factors associated with stillbirth outcomes after pregnancy
• Oversee data monitoring and data quality assurance activities to verify the completeness and accuracy of de-identified data shared by awardees
• Perform data matching from multiple administrative datasets with strict attention to accuracy
• Support preliminary analysis and interpretation of data to improve understanding of characteristics of and prevention opportunities for addressing fetal deaths
• Advise jurisdictions in performing simple and complex statistical procedures such as risk prediction, multivariable logistic regression, linear regression, and survival analysis and repeated-measures methods to evaluate study hypotheses
• Build and evaluate predictive models, regression analyses, and other models and summarize the results in clearly written reports
• Provide guidance to jurisdictions to lead the identification of literature gaps, formulation of research questions, and manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals
• Develop and maintain topic area subject matter expertise, research capacity to address maternal and child health through a health equity lens
• Work collaboratively with other teams and across and outside the agency
• Some domestic travel may be required (approximately 10%)

Benefits

Competitive salary and attractive benefits package