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Are you a Data Scientist with strong analytics and visualisation experience?  Have you a background in epidemiological data?  If so we would like to hear from you!

Imagine having a talent that could benefit someone you’ve never met and solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Well, you do, and you can. And we’re here to help you do just that. At PSR we are the go-to place for talented contractors and temps for a rich variety of civil service jobs.

As Infectious Disease Data Scientist you will: 

• Provide scientific support in infectious disease modelling to epidemiological investigations 
• Lead and manage the technical and analytical aspects of epidemiological outbreak investigations
• Take a lead role in Infectious disease modelling, public health scientific analyses and writing reports on specific projects, regular and ad hoc commissions and publications
• Provide data science support to the Epidemiological investigative work of the department, supporting technical analysis and aspects, from a data science perspective assisting the epidemiological outbreak investigations

You’ll have:

• Educated to PhD degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area. Principles of modelling and knowledge of infectious diseases.
• Experience in epidemiological outbreak surveillance situations.
• Post doctorate level or similar experience would be desirable.
• MSc in Epidemiology, public health or allied discipline or equivalent level of experience/education
• Completion of the Field Epidemiology Training Programme or equivalent training and experience in infectious disease epidemiology essential.
• An understanding of data governance and data protection.
• Knowledge of principles and practice of surveillance, including data management, data transmission, data security, data quality, data analysis including descriptive statistics and graphics and data reporting.
• Experience of interpreting and evaluating epidemiological data, sensitive health data analyses and performing analytical epidemiology in outbreak situations.
• Demonstrable experience of public health, health protection or epidemiology including epidemiology for outbreak investigations
• Knowledge and experience of common statistical tests, modelling and analyses and interpretation of results
• Experience of using epidemiological and statistical software packages
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with proven presentation and scientific report writing skills.
• Proficiency in common statistical/database/mapping tools such as:  R, Python, GIS, network analysis or SQL.

It would be great to also have:

• Public sector or government experience

If this sounds like you, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now.

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