Biostatistician at Maryland Global Initiatives Corporation Nigeria (MGIC)

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.

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Skills:

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