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Apologies for cross-posting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - POST: STUDY CO-ORDINATOR / DATA MANAGER Public Health Sciences, Department of Community Health Sciences University of Edinburgh Thirty months, full-time Scottish Cohort Study of Male Reproductive Health --------------------------------------------------------------- A study co-ordinator/ data manager is required for a population survey funded by the Health and Safety Executive and the Department of Health, and being undertaken jointly by the MRC Reproductive Biology Unit (principal investigator, Dr DS Irvine), and Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh (P. Warner and Dr R Agius). This post will be based in the Medical Statistics Unit of Public Health Sciences. Data management duties will include supervising data management aspects of mail-outs to potential study participants, development and maintenance of a database for study management, monitoring progress in recruiting participants, and in data collection, overseeing the data processing of the biological and questionnaire data that will be generated, accumulating and checking disk data, and preliminary analyses and reports. The requirement therefore is for a graduate with considerable organisational, data-handling and computing skills, an enthusiasm for health research, and an understanding of the principles and importance of methodologically-sound study execution and data collection/processing. The necessity for liaising successfully with clinical and non-clinical investigators, study staff and others at two sites, and outside agencies, means that excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential. Consideration may be given to filling the post with two part-time post-holders. Start date: As soon as possible Salary range: stlg15,735 - stlg17,570 or stlg15,735 - stlg23,651 depending on qualifications and experience Starting point: up to stlg 20,107 Further particulars including details of the application procedure should be obtained from the Personnel Office, 1 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh EH8 9TB or Tel: 0131 650 2512 (24 hour answering service). http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm Please quote reference 776 277SC. Closing date for receipt of applications is 30th April 1999. viceitesortamire Uio %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%