Research Fellow – Biostatistician

Job No.: 643271

Location: Monash Medical Centre

Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.5)

Duration: Fixed-term appointment until December 2023

Remuneration: Pro-rata of $72,927 – $98,975 pa Level A (plus 17% employer superannuation)

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• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

We encourage applications from First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.  Join us in our commitment to ensuring a better future for ourselves and for the communities in which we study, work, live and engage – #ChangeIt with us.

The Opportunity

The Department of Psychiatry are looking for a passionate and dedicated Biostatistician to support the operations of Translational Molecular Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratories. The Research Fellow will conduct statistical analyses in consultation with research staff; provide statistics guidance and research design support to the group (including students); and create datasets for statistical analysis.

The Department’s key initiatives involve prospective genomic studies, cohort studies, clinical studies, meta-analyses, and consortia focused on: understanding of the development of psychiatric disorders, understanding of signalling/regulatory networks that influence psychiatric disorder progression and treatment outcomes and validating biomarkers to improve psychiatric disorder prediction and diagnosis. 

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A doctoral qualification in the relevant discipline (i.e., biostatistics or equivalent qualifications in health services research or epidemiology) or a closely related field
• A track record of refereed research publications, using advanced statistical analysis (including biostatistical techniques)
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to supervise, mentor and support the development of research staff and postgraduate students
• Excellent bioinformatic skills relating to genomic and expression data analysis and other ‘omics’ data types

This role is a part-time position; however flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

The successful applicant will need to possess a current valid Police Check.

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to “How to apply for Monash Jobs “.

Enquiries

Professor Suresh Sundram, Head of Department Psychiatry, +61 3 9594 1479

Position Description

 Research Fellow – Biostatistician

Closing Date

Monday 5 December 2022, 11:55 pm AEDT

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