BioStatistician / Quantitative Ecologist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

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Job Description FWC-FWRI OPS Biological Scientist III:

This is a 40 hour per week BioStatistician / Quantitative Ecologist position with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The successful candidate will provide statistical consulting services to Commission staff as a member of the Center for Biostatistics and Modeling. Consulting areas include general statistical advice, design of experiments and monitoring studies, data analysis, population modeling, and manuscript preparation and review. Duties include performing quantitative analysis and modeling of scientific data using appropriate statistical methods and modern graphic techniques; reviewing current wildlife research and monitoring techniques to provide advice to research staff on appropriate and efficient methodologies; generating publication-quality graphics for publication in peer-reviewed manuscripts. The work schedule may be flexible along with the work office.

Minimum Qualifications:

A Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course of study in statistics or one of the natural sciences with demonstrable proficiency in quantitative analysis.

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates may be given preference if they have a doctorate from an accredited college or university in statistics or ecology.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

·         Excellent written and oral communication skills

·         Ability to understand and appreciate research problems from the perspective of a biologist or resource manager

·         Ability to produce statistical programming code (for SAS or R), graphics, summary results, and written documents in a manner that is easily shared and understood by FWC staff.

·         Familiarity or working knowledge in the areas of experimental design, linear models, generalized linear models, mixed effect (hierarchical) models, and nonparametric models.

·         Familiarity or working knowledge in Bayesian analysis, distance sampling, capture-recapture techniques, and occupancy estimation preferred 

·         Proficient programming skills in either R or SAS

·         Knowledge of ecological software preferred (e.g. PRESENCE, MARK, DISTANCE)

·         Ability to work independently to plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments

·         Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with research staff, including personnel stationed at field offices throughout the state of Florida

WHAT IS OPS EMPLOYMENT?  Other Personal Services (OPS) temporary employer/employee relationship used solely for accomplishing short term or intermittent tasks. OPS employees do not fill established positions and may not be assigned the duties of any vacant authorized position.  OPS employees are at-will employees and are subject to actions such as pay changes, changes to work assignment and terminations at the pleasure of the agency head or designee.

WHAT BENEFITS ARE APPLICABLE TO OPS EMPLOYEES? 

·                        State of Florida 401(a) FICA Alternative Plan - mandatory

·                        Workers’ Compensation - mandatory

·                        Reemployment Assistance (Unemployment Compensation) - mandatory

·                        Participation in state group insurance (upon meeting eligibility requirements)

·                        Deferred Compensation - voluntary

·                        Employee Assistance Program – voluntary

 

WHAT BENEFITS ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO OPS EMPLOYEES?

·                        Any form of paid leave

·                        Paid holidays

·                        Participation in the Florida Retirement System

·                        Reinstatement rights or retention rights

 

Hourly Salary: $24.04

All applications must be submitted through the Florida State PeopleFirst systeM. To apply please go to:

https://jobs.myflorida.com/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-738355&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any