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Statistician - Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate
Department of Medical Statistics
| Salary: |
£51,299 to £58,723
per annum, inclusive.
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| Closing Date: |
Sunday 08 September 2024 |
| Reference: |
EPH-MS-2024-11 |
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
We wish to appoint a statistician for the position of Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate to take a leading role in this 3-year Innovate UK KTP between LSHTM and global biopharmaceutical company GSK.
The KTP team will work collaboratively to demonstrate and implement the use of emulated trials in the drug development process within GSK. Emulated trials use existing data sources to estimate treatment effects, and this project aims to establish their potential for improving the design of future trials and producing regulatory-grade evidence.
The role requires an individual with excellent leadership and communication skills. You will develop approaches to using trial emulation in clinical trial design; develop and deliver training; advocate for trial emulation.
You will be based at GSK’s Statistics and Data Science Innovation Hub in London (Drs Aris Perperoglou, Adrian Mander), and will work closely with Profs Jonathan Bartlett, Ruth Keogh from LSHTM’s Medical Statistics Department.
The post-holder must have a PhD in biostatistics, medical statistics, data science or a closely related area and have experience of the development or assessment of statistical methodology. Strong programming skills using R are essential. Further particulars are included in the job description.
The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1 FTE, fixed-term for 3 years and available immediately.
The salary will be on the Professional Services salary scale, Grade 7 in the range £51,299-£58,723 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff. In addition there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at GSK.
Applications should be made on-line via our jobs website, applications accepted by the automated system until 10pm on the closing date. Queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.
If you would like to discuss the role informally, please email Jonathan Bartlett jonathan.bartlett1@lshtm.ac.uk.
The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable.
Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We believe that when people feel respected and included, they can be more creative, successful, and happier at work. While we have more work to do, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace, a community that everyone feels a part of, which is safe, respectful, supportive and enables all to reach their full potential.