RESEARCH CONSULTANT
Req #: | 180484 |
Department: | ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES |
Job Location: | Seattle Campus |
Posting Date: | 07/07/2020 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience. |
Shift: | First Shift |
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for six consecutive years.
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Consultant. The Research Consultant will support an established research program’s management of an extensive established database of air quality measurements, geographic variables, air pollution exposure modeling outputs, and health data. The person in this position will be expected to carry out high quality, accurate work in a multi-faceted research environment where command of quantitative details is essential. The ideal candidate will be organized, flexible, and self-motivated with a desire to learn, good communication skills, and the ability to work and thrive in a diverse, multi-faceted academic research environment.
Responsibilities include:
•Database development and management including writing processing code and documentation of procedures.
•Developing, quality checking, and distributing complex data sets to be used in epidemiological and spatial analyses.
•Under the guidance of experienced scientists, performing epidemiological and/or statistical analyses.
•Conducting research on new data management and data processing tools and ways to implement them
•Processing and manipulating various types of geographic data and air pollution measurement data
•Attending and contributing in regular data team and project meetings.
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, geography, epidemiology, or related field and a minimum of two years’ professional experience developing code in R. Other requirements include a demonstrated facility with analytic tasks, proper application of statistical methods, a strong quantitative aptitude, attention to detail, and the ability to interpret complex analytic information.
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except where there are legal requirements such as license/certification/registration.
Preferred:
Master's Degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, geography, epidemiology, or related field and three years' professional experience developing code in R. Previous experience using, building, and/or maintaining MySQL and/or PostgreSQL databases of quantitative information, including experience with relational database design and normalization. Experience using collaborative software development tools such as Git. Demonstrated adoption of best practices for data management and software development in a production environment. Experience conducting sophisticated statistical analyses. Five or more years of experience with R, SAS, SQL, and/or Python. An interest in public health research including impacts of air pollution on health.
Application Process:
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