Research Assistant in Biostatistics

1 month ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06 £31,396 to £36,024 per annum pro-rata (A revised salary range for this grade of £32,982 to £38,205 pro-rata is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)**

**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The Roslin Institute**

**Part-time: 14 hours per week**

**Fixed-term: position funded until 31 December 2024**

**The Opportunity**:
This post is part time-time (14 hours per week). We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Familiar with R Studio
- Experience with analysing infectious disease data
- Familiar with scientific literature of infectious diseases in farm animals
- Expertise in writing for scientific literature

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

Interviews will be held within the first week after the closing date


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