INVESTIGO Program - Junior Statistician - Data Technician

Reference: 06_AGAUR_CV

About the research group

Psychoneurobiology of Eating and Addictive Behaviours

The Clinical Psychology Unit of the Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL and the Psychoneurobiology of Eating and Addictive Behaviours Group has an intense research activity mainly focused on eating disorders and behavioral addictions. Due to the growing number of research projects where we are involved, the support of a junior statistician is required. She/he will be working under the supervision of a senior statistician-methodologist of the group.

About the role

Collecting technical data for a Health Technology Development project, supporting a project on obesity and entering data and managing databases from the various active projects.

Support to design and management of relational databases to ensure the quality of clinical data capture, store useful information, and adequate administration of the information. Design will be performed for longitudinal data with complex samples structures. Required:

• Normalized database designs: relational databases in accordance with normal forms programmed to reduce data redundance, to ensure properly dependencies among tables, and to guarantee relational integrity.
• Creation of tables with adequate and complete invalid data control systems, including pre-validations, in-validations and post-validations.
• Creation of forms to view, add, and update data in tables. The forms will be designed to facilitate the collection of data through adequate graphical interface and validation components to check the information.
• Creation of queries to retrieve datafiles for statistical analysis. These queries will include calculated fields, filters and the dependencies between tables to ensure relational integrity.
• Creation of queries to print advanced reports, for example the result of screening-diagnostic tests or the clinical state at different phases of the treatment (baseline, post-intervention and follow-up).
• Design of relational structures for multicenter studies with online data management.
• Descriptive analysis, including quantitative summaries for quantitative variables (rank, percentiles, mean and standard deviation) and categorical variables (frequency distribution)

Job requirements

Professional experience

• Be 16 years or older and not have reached the age of 30 on September 1st.
• At the start date of the contract, it will be an essential requirement to be registered as unoccupied job seekers (DONO) in the Public Employment Service of Catalonia (SOC) .
• At the time of starting the contract candidates cannot have worked at IDIBELL in the previous 6 months.

Education and training

•  CFGS related to Informatics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or any close field

Technical & soft skills

• Team player with ability to learn new skills, tasks and technologies and teach others

Languages

• Good command of the English language (C-level or equivalent)

We will value, but not required

• Bachelor's degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a closely related field
• Experienced in biomedical science
• Knowledge in epidemiology or biomedical research
• Self-organized.
• Proactive
• Learning capacity

What do we offer

• No. of positions:   1

• Estimated start date:  01/09/2023

• Contract duration: 24 meses

• Estimated annual gross salary:  25.100 €

• You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.

• Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way.

• Possibility to work some days in remote -Teleworking

• 26 working days of holiday per year

• System of accumulated hours for employees, from 88 to 104 hours depending on the year (11 to 13 working days), to attend to personal matters.

• Paid leave package

• Benefits of constant training are offered

• We offer and promote diverse and inclusive conditions. Applicants are made free from any discrimination. Specifically IDIBELL works to improve gender equality in all areas with the aim of achieving gender balance, but maintaining the most scrupulous respect to any choice at the level of gender identity. Please express yourself freely, safely and non-binarily, if that's the case.

Application

All applications must include the following:

• A blind CV
• Letter of recommendation

Selection process

• Pre-selection: The pre-selection process will consist on an eligibility check based on qualifications and expertise reflected on the candidate's CV.
• Interview: Best positioned, pre-selected candidates may be called to arrange an interview. Candidates will be interviewed by the hiring manager and an ad hoc selection panel.
• Formal offer letter: Once identified, the Talent Unit will send a job offer to the successful candidate indicating start date, salary, working conditions, and any additional relevant details.

Deadline: Please submit your application by 23 July 2023

Data protection notice

In compliance with the obligations established in the General Regulation of Data Protection (RGPD), which is the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, and the Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, it is reported that the Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), CIF G58863317, with address Av. Granvia de l'Hospitalet, 199-203, 08908, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, will process your personal data, as the controller, to apply for the position, maintain communication concerning the status of the candidature, to access the delivered CV; to compare that your data is in accordance with the offers announced by IDIBELL and to verify, where appropriate, that the information provided is accurate. You can find more information in our Privacy Policy at https://idibell.cat/en/privacy-policy-2/, request more information about the data processing carried out and exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion, opposition, portability, limitation of processing by sending a request at email: dataprotection@idibell.cat. If you consider that you have not obtained satisfaction in exercising your rights, you may submit a claim to Catalan Data Protection Authority.

Our institute

Observations

The 'HR Excellence in Research' award represents IDIBELL’s commitment to the implementation of Human Resources policies, which oversee the attracting and development of talent in an open, transparent, and based on personal merit, in alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment Researchers (Charter and Code).

IDIBELL is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the implementation of open, transparent and merit-based recruitment (OTMR).

With the support of the Investigo Program for the recruitment of young people seeking employment in the implementation of research and innovation initiatives (INVESTIGO 2023) of the Departament de Recerca i Universitats of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU.