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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
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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
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