Our Child Physical Activity, Health and Development team focuses on improving children’s physical activity levels, health and development. We work to uncover the best environments, policies and programs to facilitate physically active lifestyles for lifelong health and wellbeing.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will support the development of analytic solutions and conduct data and spatial analyses across diverse project datasets. You will play a vital role in ensuring data quality, performing statistical analyses, and interpreting findings that contribute to impactful research.

Some of your key responsibilities will include the below:

• Conduct data analysis, quality assurance, and manipulation of cohort and statistical datasets.
• Develop and execute analysis plans in collaboration with research teams.
• Apply spatial techniques (GIS) for geographic data analysis and visualisation.
• Prepare summaries of methods and results for research publications.
• Create and maintain data pipelines and technical documentation.
• Ensure compliance with data governance policies and industry standards.

Based at Perth Children’s Hospital, this is a 0.6 – 1 FTE role for a 2 year duration, with a possibility of an extension.

About You

If you are passionate about leveraging data to drive meaningful insights and want to be part of a collaborative research environment, we encourage you to apply.

The successful candidate will have the below skills and experience:

• Postgraduate degree in statistics, mathematics, data science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with large datasets in research or data science.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as SAS, STATA, R, or Python, along with SQL.
• Knowledge of GIS analysis and spatial data visualisation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex data concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in academic writing, particularly in methods and results sections.

We are driving inclusion and diversity as part of the way we work and embrace the diverse career and life experiences of our staff. If you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to submit your application. We also encourage you to address any career disruptions (if applicable) you may have had in your cover letter.

About Us

Our aim is to create a workplace where people are respected and encouraged to fulfil their potential. We encourage a workforce that is innovative, eager to acquire knowledge and enhance skills; we embrace all employee differences, foster a culture that supports diversity and inclusion, and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations where required.

Some of our staff benefits include:

• Save on tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging up to $15,899 of Living Expenses and up to $2,650 on Entertainment Benefits each FBT year.
• Additional annual leave over Christmas and Easter.
• Paid Parental Leave
• Early and Mid-Career Researcher Mentoring Program.
• Various initiatives providing strategic support to researchers, including funding support.
• Extensive health and wellbeing program with weekly events.
• Flexible work options and hybrid working.
• Modern offices and end of trip facilities, including sit to stand desks.
• Access to Corporate Health Insurance.
• Staff purchasing discounts including travel, IT Hardware and stationery.

How to apply

If you think that this is the right role and an exciting new challenge for you, please click on 'Apply Now' to navigate to our Career Site to view the Job Description and submit your application.

Your cover letter (no more than 2 pages) should specifically address your skills and experience outlined in the “About You” section above.

Applications will only be accepted through our career portal. If you are experiencing technical difficulties with our online portal, please direct your query to [email protected]
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].

For more information about the role please contact: Gina Arena, Program Manager

Contact Email: [email protected]

Closing Date: 5th March 2025 - The Kids Research Institute reserve the right to hire prior to the closing date.