Research Associate - Biostatistics - Rice

Research associate - biostatistics - rice Research associate - biostatistics - rice About the position
The Alliance Bioversity-CIAT is looking for a professional in areas like mathematics, statistics,
engineering or data analysis careers. The main objective in the position will be to provide support in
processing, analysis, and reporting of data results to contribute to the optimization of breeding schemes.


The position will be based in the operations center of the Americas, located in the Campus of Palmira,
Colombia.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to researchers on data gathering best practices, and experimental designs, ensuring good data analysis and high-quality reports can be performed.
• Contribute to create the annual report for genetic gain assessment.
• Provide statistical solutions to accelerate the decision-making process based on genetic reports.
• Develop analysis pipelines for trial data, quality data, and genotypic data to standardize processes in the breeding program in collaboration with the genetic team.
• Provide internal or external training on statistical solutions procedures for capacity building (guidelines).
• Support the experimental designs ensuring statistical procedures can be applied correctly and efficiently.
• Accountable for modernizing the breeding program under the Accelerated Breeding Initiative.
• Work closely with the Data Manager to identify and correct errors and add meta information to the database.
• Interact with field team, quality lab, and genetics lab to analyze the phenotypic and genotypic data, interpret the analysis results, and generate reports.

Qualifications and requirements

• Professional in Biology, Agronomic Engineer, Mathematics, statistics, or similar careers.
• Experience in managing and analyzing data. Especially in Agriculture research.
• Understanding of principles of experimental design, linear mixed model, and multivariate techniques.
• Experience in programming in ''R" & "Shiny''.
• Intermediate level of English (oral and written).
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