How to Apply
A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your CV/resume. The cover letter should address your areas of interest, experience, and qualifications within the range of responsibilities described.
Job Summary
The Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-Making Center (d3center) is seeking a highly experienced Senior Statistical Programmer to support advanced quantitative and data-intensive research across a diverse portfolio of sponsored projects. This role partners closely with faculty investigators, research scientists, biostatisticians, and analysts to develop adaptive intervention methodologies to support the design, implementation, and maintenance of robust, reproducible statistical programming workflows that support high-quality research and evidence generation.
The Senior Statistical Programmer brings deep technical expertise, strong statistical reasoning, and a collaborative mindset to complex research questions spanning health, behavioral, social, and data sciences. The position is well suited for an individual who can work independently on sophisticated analyses while also mentoring others and contributing to best practices in research computing.
The Survey Research Center (SRC) at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) is an international leader in interdisciplinary social science research involving the collection and analysis of data, especially data from scientific sample surveys. SRC conducts some of the most widely cited and influential studies in the world.
The Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision Making Center (d3c), a program within SRC, is an interdisciplinary collective of data scientists revolutionizing the design and delivery of interventions in healthcare and education. d3c strives to cultivate a bottom-up, interactive, team-oriented workplace that values, above all else, how people work together in the service of developing and disseminating novel data science tools that matter. As we develop the methodological toolkit scientists need to address today's biggest public health challenges, we're building an open-source ecosystem for sharing our tools and collaborating with and training scientific partners to implement our methodology to solve real-world problems. Through partnerships with stakeholders around the world, we will catalyze a new generation of evidence-based, technology-powered treatments that improve health and education outcomes for everyone.
This position will report to the d3c Managing Director, and partner closely with experienced research administrators housed within the Survey Research Center (SRC).
Why Work at Michigan?
In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, the University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself and any eligible family members and plan for a secure future. Benefits include:
Generous time off
A retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions with immediate vesting upon meeting eligibility requirements
Many choices for comprehensive health insurance
Life insurance
Long-term disability coverage
Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
Learn more about U-M benefits.
Responsibilities*
- Develop, validate, and maintain statistical programs to support complex research analyses, simulations, and reporting.
- Translate analytic plans and study protocols into efficient, reproducible code using appropriate statistical methods.
- Conduct or support advanced statistical analyses (e.g., longitudinal, multilevel, causal inference, survival, or high-dimensional methods) in collaboration with faculty and statistical experts.
- Ensure adherence to best practices for data integrity, quality assurance, and validation of analytic outputs.
- Lead the preparation of analysis-ready datasets and codebooks in accordance with sponsor, institutional, and regulatory requirements.
- Serve as a senior technical resource to research teams, advising on analytic feasibility, data structure, and computational approaches.
- Contribute to the preparation of tables, figures, and analytic documentation for manuscripts, reports, and grant proposals.
- Supervise junior programmers, analysts, and research staff.
- Contribute to the development of shared programming standards, templates, and analytic libraries.
- Participate in training efforts and knowledge-sharing related to statistical programming tools and methods.
- Ensure that all programming and data activities comply with applicable regulations, sponsor requirements, and University of Michigan policies (e.g., human subjects protections, data security standards).
- Work with sensitive or restricted data using approved secure computing environments and practices.
Required Qualifications*
- PhD in Statistics, Economics, Psychology, or other relevant domain
- 10+ years of experience leading statistical analysis on projects that involve experimental design and intervention optimization, latent class analysis, and time-varying effect modeling
- Expertise in software development and statistical programming, with particular knowledge of SAS procedures and statistical power for factorial and multi-level experimental designs
- Expertise in simulation studies, model selection, mixture modeling, clustered and longitudinal data analysis, and experimental design and power
Work Locations
Work location is expected to be onsite in Ann Arbor with flexibility for hybrid work within our overall Center policies.
Modes of Work
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.
Additional Information
The Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan seeks to create a community of respect and authentic collaboration by recruiting and retaining individuals that represent a variety of voices as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of Michigan, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to ground our research in varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.
Background Screening
The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Application Deadline
Institute for Social Research job openings are posted for a minimum of fourteen (14) calendar days. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.
U-M EEO Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.