Research Associate Professor – Statistician/Quantitative Scientist

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Posted: 12-Mar-24

Location: Knoxville, TN

Salary: Open

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Academic/Faculty

Internal Number: 129114

The College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (CEHHS) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville,  the state's flagship research institution, seeks an applied statistician/quantitative scientist who can provide leadership in developing and providing statistical, data management, and data science support for health and education-focused research. A successful candidate will have a strong background in multidisciplinary science, excellent working knowledge of several statistical software packages (e.g., R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, etc.), and expertise in theory and application of probability and statistics. This position is a 12-month, non-tenure research track position and as such requires a focused program of research, though specific area of study is open. As well, the role requires superb grantsmanship skills, as evidenced by a history of funding as a principal investigator, co-investigator, primary statistician, and/or primary data scientist. This role will focus on supporting faculty within CEHHS, through providing individualized consultation to faculty in data analytic plans, statistical design, and statistical analysis.  The candidate can expect to consult and collaborate with faculty to develop analytic plans, recommend appropriate analytic strategies, write program code, analyze data and interpret findings design surveys and databases.  The candidate will also support professional development activities on data management and statistical methods that are provided to CEHHS to faculty. This position will work closely with the Associate Dean of Research, the Senior Methodologist, and the Director of External Funding in CEHHS, and have a home department within CEHHS that most closely aligns with the candidate's terminal degree and research area. The candidate will be expected to maintain a successfully funded research agenda and develop collaborations with CEHHS. Opportunities for teaching and mentoring students are available, if desired. Finally, the University of Tennessee Knoxville is seeking candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the diversity and intercultural goals of the University.

About University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Our primary mission is to move forward the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich and elevate the citizens of the state of Tennessee, the nation, and the world. As the preeminent research-based, land-grant university in the state, UT embodies the spirit of excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, creative activity, outreach, diversity, equity, inclusion, and engagement attained by the nation's finest public research institutions.

Required Qualifications: Doctoral degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Quantitative Methods, Education, Public Health, Epidemiology or related quantitative field; must qualify for the rank of research associate professor in the home department in which the candidate would be based; at least 3 years of external funding in collaborative research/scholarship; a strong record of scholarship in statistics and education or statistics and health, in which leadership is demonstrated; strong knowledge of quantitative methods; and demonstrated commitment to productive collaboration across many investigators and fields.

Applicants should also have expertise in one or more of the following: design and analysis of observational studies, approaches to planning and analyzing cluster randomized trials, randomized clinical trials, multi-level modeling, modern approaches to handling missing data, longitudinal data analyses, experimental designs, structural equation modeling, multivariate statistics, psychometrics, Bayesian methods, machine learning approaches, and/or analysis of quasi-experimental studies.

 

Desired Qualifications: Experience as being part of a multidisciplinary research team; history of mentoring faculty in externally-funded scholarship (statistics and data science); and history of funding from one or more of the following sponsors: NIH, IES, NSF, and/or large foundations.

Submit letter of application addressing the required and desired qualifications as well as fit with all elements of the position description; curriculum vita; and the names, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references via Interfolio.

Application review will begin November 1 and continue until the position is filled.

Specific questions may be addressed to Dr. Angela Pfammatter, search committee chair, at [email protected] .

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, and parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. In accordance with the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the University of Tennessee affirmatively states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in its education programs and activities, and this policy extends to employment by the university. Inquiries and charges of violation of Title VI (race, color, and national origin), Title IX (sex), Section 504 (disability), the ADA (disability), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (age), sexual orientation, or veteran status should be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity, 1840 Melrose Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, telephone 865-974-2498. Requests for accommodation of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the Office of Equity and Diversity.

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About University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Our primary mission is to move forward the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich and elevate the citizens of the state of Tennessee, the nation, and the world. As the preeminent research-based, land-grant university in the state, UT embodies the spirit of excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, creative activity, outreach, and engagement attained by the nation’s finest public research institutions.
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