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Statistical Programming Specialist Job Locations US-OH-Cincinnati ID 2024-2614 Category Research Type Full Time Overview The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full time Statistical Programming Specialist position with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Cincinnati, OH. The Office of Research and Development at the EPA supports high-quality research to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and help EPA achieve its environmental goals. Research is conducted in a broad range of environmental areas by scientists in EPA laboratories and at universities across the country. What the EPA project is about The Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CCTE) supports ORD by providing solutions-driven research to rapidly evaluate the potential human health and environmental risks due to exposures to environmental stressors and ensure the integrity of the freshwater environment and its capacity to support human well-being. CCTE researchers are developing and applying cutting edge innovations in methods to rapidly evaluate chemical toxicity, transport, and exposure to people and environments. Within CCTE, the Scientific Computing & Data Curation Division (SCDCD) develops the knowledge and information architecture necessary for integrating, transforming, and managing large scale data streams related to assessing the risk of chemicals. SCDCD creates and manages online tools and ensures they are compatible with existing chemistry, toxicology, and other experimental data sources. Responsibilities As a team member, you will support research under multiple national research programs for statistical software tool development and support. The team member will assist with package maintenance, scientific data management, statistical methods, data analysis, and visualization needs for CCTE. This includes supporting several of CCTE's R statistical programming packages which are tools developed to support data formatting, statistical analyses, visualization, data quality evaluation, and other similar support needs across multiple research domains in the center. The team member may also support database integration efforts and the application of statistical/mathematical modeling, machine learning, and other data science techniques. The duties of the team member will include, but are not limited to: Provide support for statistical software tools - particularly R packages - including but not limited to package documentation, function/package testing, and writing/updating R scripts to support package updates and new functionality; Utilize version control software for tracking updates to code in software tool and data analyses; Manage, manipulate, and assess scientific data (new and existing) for statistical analyses and incorporation into analysis tools (e.g. R packages) supporting researchers in the center; Contribute to documentation/manuscripts to communicate results, software updates or features, statistical methods/models, and data analyses with stakeholders and researchers; and Contribute to the design and implementation of methods that address goals including, but not limited to, developing best practices for data reporting, model assessment, package management, and similar efforts to increase transparency, reproducibility, and efficiency. Communications-related responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Contribute to an interdisciplinary team of scientists and developers; Communicate with development team and researchers on existing issues and/or questions as directed by the EPA mentor; Thoroughly document all work as directed by EPA mentor to comply with EPA quality assurance procedures for transparency and reproducibili