Role: Senior Statistician REF 106512
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Remote
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £600 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Statistician for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR STATISTICIAN
- Provide statistical leadership for the programme, undertaking complex statistical analysis to help meet its primary objectives.
- Unlock the value of long-term datasets by thorough rigorous, iterative analysis.
- Analysis of complex, multi-pressure ecological datasets, required to identify causal drivers of ecosystem change.
- Develop a revised monitoring design to reduce redundancy and increase statistical power, improving efficiency and ensuring that future data collection is efficient, targeted, and statistically robust.
- Revise the monitoring design to retain as much of the current methodology as possible, to facilitate maximum use of existing data.
- Consult program evidence users and partners, research and academic institutions—to consider their needs during development of the new survey design.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCES OF THE SENIOR STATISTICIAN
- Experience of working in statistical and/or ecological or environmental fields, educated to degree level in a relevant subject or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience (essential).
- A good understanding of experimental/survey design and related statistical analyses; ideally experience in ecological statistics (essential).
- Able to evaluate comparative approaches to statistical analysis and monitoring design, examine implications and make justified and evidenced recommendations (desirable).
- Experience of a range of statistical techniques in R or Python (or SPSS) for examining relationships (including multivariate) between data and for inference, parametric and non-parametric analysis, and quantifying uncertainty (Essential).
- Experience of contributing to relevant scientific literature (including responsibility for statistical analysis) and/or relevant technical reports (desirable)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, especially in conveying complex information, data, analytical methods, and results to a range of audiences (desirable).
- Manage and deliver your work to meet agreed targets and deadlines (essential).
- Reporting publication list
- Able to communicate complex information
- Ecological data Experience
- Ecological statistical knowledge (essential)
If you are a Senior Statistician, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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