Senior Associate - Epidemiologist

About the role

• Job Family: Operational Effectiveness
• Travel Required: Up to 10%
• Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do

Guidehouse is seeking an Epidemiologist (Senior Associate) to support public health research, surveillance, and injury prevention activities for a federal health client. The Senior Associate will lead and support epidemiologic studies, surveillance activities, investigations, study design, analytic planning, and interpretation of complex public health data. The ideal candidate combines strong epidemiologic and statistical expertise with scientific writing, research, critical thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.

The candidate will

• Lead and support epidemiologic studies, surveillance activities, investigations, and analyses focused on injury prevention and other public health priorities
• Develop study designs, protocols, analytic plans, and data collection approaches, including reviewing and refining data collection instruments
• Manage and analyze complex epidemiologic datasets, including community public health, survey, surveillance, and laboratory-epidemiologic data; conduct data quality review, validation, documentation, and database management
• Conduct statistical analyses using SAS, R, and other relevant statistical software and interpret findings to assess population health, injury burden, risk factors, data validity, and data gaps
• Develop surveillance and analytic products, including reports, tables, figures, graphs, presentations, and other materials suitable for CDC leadership, partners, scientific meetings, and publication
• Evaluate study and program implementation and outcomes and provide epidemiologic recommendations to inform further investigation, public health action, policy development, and program improvement
• Prepare and contribute to scientific manuscripts, publications, technical reports, abstracts, presentations, and comprehensive statistical and analytic reports
• Support Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions and revisions, protocol compliance, secure data transfer and processing, and coordination with participating research or surveillance sites
• Provide technical consultation and communicate study requirements, methods, findings, and recommendations to CDC staff, epidemiologists, statisticians, project sites, and other public health partners
• Participate in scientific workgroups, project meetings, conferences, and other technical forums, including presenting epidemiologic findings and documenting key activities and decisions

What You Will Need

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust; Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
• Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Sociology, Public Health, or a related field
• SIX (6) or more years of relevant professional experience in epidemiology, public health research, surveillance, biostatistics, injury prevention, public health data analysis, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience leading or independently conducting epidemiologic studies, surveillance activities, investigations, study design, analytic planning, database management, and data quality activities
• Demonstrated experience working with community public health data, survey data, surveillance data, or other complex epidemiologic datasets
• Intermediate to advanced experience using SAS or R for data management, statistical analysis, interpretation, and reporting
• Experience translating epidemiologic analyses into scientific or technical products, including reports, tables, figures, presentations, manuscripts, or publications
• Strong scientific writing, research, analytical, critical thinking, and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical information clearly to scientific, programmatic, and other stakeholder audiences
• Ability to provide a scientific or technical writing sample and list of publications

What Would Be Nice To Have

• Doctoral degree (Ph.D., DrPH, ScD, or equivalent) in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Sociology, Public Health, or a related field
• Direct experience in injury prevention, injury epidemiology, injury surveillance, or related population health research
• Experience supporting federal health agencies, particularly CDC or HHS
• Experience with IRB submissions and revisions, human subjects research, study protocol development, or multi-site research and surveillance activities
• Experience contributing to peer-reviewed manuscripts, scientific publications, conference presentations, or other scholarly products
• Experience using additional statistical or database tools such as SPSS, Stata, Epi Info, or Microsoft Access

What We Offer

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance - 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend