CBAR

Duties And Responsibilities: Responsible for developing, modifying, and maintaining program suites, primarily in SAS, in conjunction with and in support of biostatisticians and epidemiologists in the numerous projects underway at the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR). This position has several openings. Responsibilities include: 1) Designing and developing project-specific SAS programs for biostatisticians, often producing analysis datasets, reports, or graphics; 2) SAS programming for data retrieval from ASCII datasets provided by the data management center; 3) implementing and testing cross-project SAS programs; 4) development of utilities for QC/QA and analyses; 5) serving on an internal CBAR committee. Several of CBAR's projects are large observational cohorts of children and adults with HIV exposure and/or AIDS. Each successful applicant will be an integral part of a team of programmers and analysts, constructing and managing one of these longitudinal databases. The programmer will assist in creating a database infrastructure while assisting biostatisticians and epidemiologists to create analysis datasets and reports. These tasks will require project management, continuous quality improvement, and troubleshooting while working directly with the study team. Basic knowledge of statistics, experience with data cleaning (in particular clinical trials data), and solid SAS programming skills are all preferred. **Please Note: This position is grant funded through 5/31/13**

Basic Qualifications: Minimum of Bachelor's degree, preferably in Math, Computer Science, or Statistics. One year of programming experience preferred in either SAS or a similar statistical software or programming language, ideally in clinical trials. Ability to program in UNIX and other high-level languages is beneficial. Please provide a copy of transcript, sample SAS Code and email contact information for 3 professional references with resume.

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