Biostatistician

$85,000 – $105,000 + superannuation per year

Employment Type:  2-Year, Fixed Term, Full-Time 

The Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) is a non-profit organisation that provides cutting-edge digital infrastructure capabilities for research and innovation across Queensland and Australia. QCIF draws investment from its Members, the Queensland Government, and the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program. 

QCIF’s mission is to accelerate research excellence and societal impact by: 

• Provisioning cutting-edge digital research infrastructure capabilities and enterprise solutions;   
• Upskilling current and future researchers and innovators; and    
• Catalysing collaboration within Queensland and across Australia.  
  • Exploratory statistical analysis and data mining. 

Within QCIF, the Data Science team works closely with researchers from our Member organisations, applying data management, integration, analysis and visualisation techniques to maximise the value of large-scale datasets. 

This position offers an outstanding opportunity to work with leading clinicians and scientists and contribute to cutting-edge research projects in the medical, public health and social sciences. 

The types of analysis include but are not limited to: 

• Statistical consulting for clinicians and researchers for basic and high-level aspects of their research. 
• Clinical trial design and analysis. 
• Experimental design. 
• Analysis and interpretation of public health data

The position involves identifying and gathering analysis requirements from a wide range of clinical, public health and social science researchers and delivering efficient statistical solutions to meet their research outcomes. A high degree of autonomy and professionalism is required to represent QCIF on partners’ premises. 

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Provide expertise in the design and analysis of clinical trials, public health and social science projects. 
• Consult with researchers to understand their research questions and provide necessary biostatistics support to assist their research. 
• Gather project requirements from researchers, developing with them new proposals and project plans.
• Deliver training workshops. 
• Where appropriate report research results to the scientific community via reports, posters, papers and presentations. 
• Where appropriate, supervision or shared supervision of other staff, interns and/or students in relevant projects. 

• A Masters or PhD degree in statistics or closely related quantitative discipline with significant experience as a biostatistician 
• Experience in providing statistical expertise in medical, public health or social science research and clinical trials 
• Demonstrated expert knowledge in the area of medical biostatistics in relation to clinical and health services research, surveys and epidemiology, including study design, power calculations and analysis of clinical trials, administrative and longitudinal datasets 
• Ability to communicate with clinicians and scientists to understand their needs 
• Demonstrated expertise in the use of R, Stata, SAS or other statistical environments
• Ability to relate to a wide range of scientific research and medical disciplines 
• Experience with grant writing and publishing 

The position reports to QCIF’s Head of Biostatistics.  

• The role will work from the QCIF offices at UQ, St Lucia.  Applicants outside the greater Brisbane region must be willing to relocate. 
• Flexible working arrangements may be negotiated. 
• This position may be hosted by one of QCIF’s Member universities. Details about QCIF can be found here http://qcif.edu.au 

Please provide a:

• Cover letter addressing the selection criteria described in “About you”
• CV