Analyst Medicine - Critical Care

Requisition ID: 401617

Position Number: 20003874

Posting End Date: Open Until Filled

City: Winnipeg

Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Site: WRHA Corporate

Department / Unit: WRHA Medicine Regional Administrative

Job Stream: Non-Clinical

Union: Non Union

Anticipated Start Date: 05/25/2026

FTE: 1.00

Anticipated Shift: Days

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Daily Hours Worked: 7.75

Annual Base Hours: 2015

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Position Overview

The Analyst Medicine - Critical Care will provide advanced statistical and data management expertise in support of a large, complex medical database that is continuously evolving. The successful candidate will:

• have a strong background in biostatistics, data management, and advanced statistical programming, particularly in SAS.
• engage extensively with database personnel, physicians, researchers, and administrators to ensure high-quality data, robust analyses, and timely reporting.
  play a key part in maintaining database integrity, supporting its continuous evolution, and producing high-quality reports and analyses to support clinical, quality improvement, and research initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains and oversees the integrity, quality, and security of a large, continuously evolving medical database.
• Collaborates with a multidisciplinary group to support database development, enhancement, and documentation.
• Designs, implements, and validates statistical analyses using SAS. Facility with R is highly desirable.
• Develops, generates, and refines routine and ad hoc statistical and analytical reports for clinical, research, and administrative stakeholders.
• Consults with physicians, researchers, and other data users to define analytical requirements, translate clinical and research questions into statistical plans, and interpret results.
• Contributes to the ongoing evolution of the database, including data structure design, variable definition, metadata standards, and data quality procedures.
• Contributes to developing and implementing procedures for data validation, cleaning, and quality assurance.
• Prepares and maintains comprehensive documentation of data management processes, analytical methods, and reporting standards in accordance with institutional and regulatory requirements.
• Provides training and technical support to database users and collaborators on data access, interpretation, and use of reports.

Experience

• 5+ years' experience in statistical analysis and data management in a medical, clinical, or health research setting.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Data Science, Epidemiology, or a related quantitative field.

Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated expert-level proficiency in SAS for data management and statistical analysis required.
• Experience working with large, complex, and evolving datasets required.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with technical staff, physicians, and researchers.
• Proficiency in R for data manipulation, visualization, and advanced analytics preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Access and other common data management platforms for data manipulation and executing checks of data quality and consistency preferred.
• Experience with clinical or health research databases, including knowledge of relevant privacy/confidentiality considerations preferred.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.