American College of Surgeons · 16 hours ago
Statistician
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$75K/yr - $85K/yr
2+ years expThe American College of Surgeons is a professional organization dedicated to improving surgical care. The Statistician will support the CQI Statistics team by performing quantitative analytic functions, data management, and statistical analysis to enhance the quality of surgical patient care.
Non-profit Organization Management
Responsibilities
Execute and define standardized analytic plans under supervision to support data analytics for assigned program
Support relevant classification methods and contribute to predictive and prognostic modeling, statistical learning methods, employing machine learning and data science techniques
Provide ad hoc analytics support to assigned program
Contribute to custom research projects
Evaluate data structure and integrity on an ongoing basis, determining whether data is consistent with expectations and whether specifications or data collection processes need to be changed
Conduct data quality assurance testing for database deliverables
Support relevant stakeholders in developing and releasing quality measures for rule-based logic implementation
Write sections of reports and manuscripts dealing with methods and results
Develop novel reports, under direction from senior staff, using applications such as SAS, R, Python
Create visual reports and dashboards
Provide customer support to program teams
Coordinate meeting logistics for cross-departmental statistician meetings (e.g., NSQIP, Trauma)
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
A master's degree in statistics, public health, social sciences, or related field with strong quantitative concentration is required
2+ years of statistical experience is preferred
Proficiency with SAS is required
Experience with manipulating large data sets, data cleaning, transformation, and merging is required
Experience in performing exploratory data analysis and creating descriptive summaries is required
Experience with statistical methods, such as linear and logistic multiple regression, model selection, mixed hierarchical models, and survival analysis, is required
Good verbal communication skills are required, including the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences
Good written communication skills including grammatical/technical writing skills
Preferred
Python, R, or other transferable programming skill set for data manipulation and analysis is preferred
Familiarity with SQL and Macros for handling structured data is preferred
Experience with data visualization tools and basic report generation is preferred
Benefits
Vacation, personal, and sick hours including 13 paid holidays per year
Tuition Reimbursement
Medical—comprehensive coverage through BlueCross BlueShield
Dental, Vision, and Prescription drug program
403(b) Matching Program
Pension Plan
Flexible Spending Medical/Dependent Care
Employee Assistance Program
Short Term/Long Term Disability
Life Insurance
Domestic Partner Coverage
Company
American College of Surgeons
American College of Surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards.
201-500 employees
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Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS
Executive Director & CEO
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2025-10-06
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