Job For Bio statistician at Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation Nigeria

Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation Nigeria (MGIC) is a non-profit affiliate of UMB with a mission to administratively support international operations of UMB Principal Investigators. Our purpose is to provide the administrative infrastructure for sizable and sustained operations outside of the U.S. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Bio statistician Location: Abuja Duration: January to September 2019 Report to: The NAIIS Senior Biostatistician Position Overview

• The Biostatistician will support the Nigeria AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS). This is a population-based survey with over 90,000 randomly selected households and over 200,000 individuals in all the states of Nigeria.
• The survey estimates HIV incidence, prevalence, viral load suppression among adults and children and to determine hepatitis B and C prevalence.
• The Biostatistician will apply his/her expertise in large scale survey statistics, methodology, including survey sampling and weighting methodology to generate valid national and sub-national estimates.
• The primary statistical software package for NAIIS data analysis is SAS.

• Develop and use macros or other procedures for automating statistical analysis
• Communicate findings in written documentation and presentations
• Assist in country report writing and writing peer-reviewed papers
• Support in the development of materials for public release of the NAIIS datasets
• Analyze complex survey data
• Implement sampling and weighting strategies for data analysis
• Produce estimates for national and sub-national levels
• Through survey methodology and demography techniques yield estimates of national and subnational HIV prevalence, and people living with HIV.
• Provide survey statistics support, consultation, and analysis
• Estimate the key population sizes
• Support data management processes including data cleaning
• Prepare derived datasets for the analyses
• Program and validate statistical analyses

• Minimum of Master's degree in Biostatistics, Epidemiology or Quantitative Methods with statistical modeling experience.
• Minimum of two years’ experience in health survey data analysis

• Written and oral communication skill
• Strong teamwork.
• Mandatory working knowledge of SAS and Stata
• Complex survey analysis skill
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills