The Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC), established in 2011, is a physician-led quality improvement collaborative comprised of a consortium of urology practices throughout the state of Michigan and the United States. The collaborative is a community that partners to improve urology patients? lives by inspiring high quality care through data-driven best practices, education, and innovation MUSIC is funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and is coordinated at Michigan Medicine in the Department of Urology. 

The Urology Statistician Team is currently looking for a skilled Statistician for the MUSIC collaborative.  Specific responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• In conjunction with collaborators, determine and carry out an iterative process that defines clinical or quality questions, reviews methods, and presents results.
• Write, edit, and document programs to clean, manage, validate, merge, and analyze data.
• Develop and deliver written, graphical, and/or verbal presentations of the data.
• Contribute to medical manuscripts in collaboration as a co-author by providing analytic plans, statistical analyses, results, tables and figures. 
• Support the collaborative team with quality improvement including patient, physician, and practice reports and presentations including design, implementation, and dissemination of materials.

• A minimum of a Master's degree in a recognized field of science or learning which is directly related to this position.
• 1 - 3 years of professional experience 

• Master's degree in biostatistics, statistics, or equivalent
• Prior experience in the medical research field is preferred
• Skills in using statistical analysis software; for example: SAS, R, STATA, or Python
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.