The Carolina Population Center is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Research Scientist in the population sciences. This position will involve working on the NIH-funded National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a critical project in understanding health trajectories from adolescence into adulthood.
Position: Research Scientist
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Duration: Full-time
The selected candidate will play a pivotal role in understanding the complex design of Add Health, developing weights for analytic files, preparing and documenting data sets for public release, addressing analytic questions from users, assisting with data analysis and presentations, writing analytic user’s guides, conducting workshops on effectively using Add Health data, and contributing to grant applications and publications.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity, will accept a relevant bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution. May require terminal degree and licensure.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:
- Degree in Demography, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Sociology, or related field.
- Experience in data analysis.
- Familiarity with large-scale complex population-based surveys, including design, weighting, and analysis.
- Demonstrated experience in academic analysis and writing, public speaking and presentation, and quantitative research methodologies.
- Substantial experience using SAS and/or Stata.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:
- Experience in population-based data analysis.
- Familiarity with large-scale complex population-based surveys, including design, weighting, and analysis.
- Experience working on NIH grant proposals.
- Experience working with data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health).
Job posting open until April 3, 2024. To apply, please use this link: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/276009