Research Assistant in Data Science and Clinical Trials
King's College London
- Strand, Central London
- £37,332-42,099 per year
- Contract
- Full-time
- With senior statistical oversight: to take responsibility for the statistics of several studies. This will include some or all of: contributing to design, data form design, writing statistical analysis plans, undertaking statistical analyses, writing reports and papers, solving statistical problems that may arise, with support from senior colleagues.
- With senior database oversight: The postholder will contribute to the work undertaken by existing staff and will specifically work on standardising operations including back-up procedures and execution, accessing data from existing databases, preparing datasets for statistical analysis and writing code, for example, access code for new databases.
- Contribute to study reports, publications, proposals and applications to external bodies for funding purposes, as appropriate.
- To contribute to the UMS statistical consultancy service across King's, with appropriate training and support, as needed.
- Identify and solve specific statistical and methodological problems that arise in collected data.
- Attend and contribute to relevant meetings and conferences.
- Knowledge and experience of various statistical packages such as R, Stata, Python
- Ability to adapt statistical methodology to specific research studies
- Understanding of database design and management
- Knowledge of health research
- Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, actively addressing areas of potential bias
- Advisory or consultancy experience
- Writing manuals and protocols