At the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), we are committed to achieving innovative, ground-breaking health and medical research that fundamentally improves the quality of life for all people.
Make a measurable difference to the quality, safety and value of aged care in Australia. Join SAHMRI’s Registry of Senior Australians Research Centre (ROSA) as a Statistician and apply advanced statistical methods to large, linked health and aged care datasets that inform policy, practice and better outcomes for older Australians.
The Registry of Senior Australians Research Centre (ROSA) (https://rosaresearch.org/) established in 2017, was designed to monitor the health, service utilisation, medication use, mortality, and other health specific outcomes of people receiving aged care services. ROSA’s efficient model leverages existing information, bringing together diverse datasets collected by different organisations throughout the country, to provide us with a whole picture of the ageing pathway. ROSA produces evidence to guide decision-making for quality, coordinated, efficient, innovative, and age-friendly services and practices.
About the Opportunity
This part-time, 12-month contract role will support ROSA’s research program by conducting high-quality statistical analyses focused on aged care and health services for older people. You will help build evidence on the quality of care delivered to older people accessing home care, while contributing to broader ROSA projects that support practice and policy recommendations.
Reporting to the Senior Research Fellow, ROSA, you will work closely with lead researchers, the analytical team, SAHMRI staff, research partners, collaborators, lived experience contributors, governance and ethics committees, and data owners or custodians. This role has no current direct reports.
In this role, you will:
- Plan, conduct and deliver high-quality research focused on aged care and health services for older people.
- Analyse large linked datasets of more than one million individuals, including aged care, PBS, MBS, hospitalisation and DOMINO data.
- Lead complex statistical analyses, including multivariable modelling, survival analysis, missing data methods and confounding adjustment.
- Design studies, develop protocols and analytical plans, and contribute to sample size calculations.
- Investigate care quality, safety monitoring, variation in care and value-based care, with a focus on home care.
- Prepare reports, manuscripts and conference presentations to share research findings with academic, policy and practice audiences.
- Manage project timelines, milestones, deliverables and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate with ROSA colleagues, research partners, stakeholders and lived experience contributors.
- Contribute to grants, funding applications, quality control processes and continuous improvement initiatives.
About You
You will bring strong statistical capability, sound research judgement and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. You will be comfortable working with complex datasets and translating analysis into meaningful evidence for research, policy and practice.
- A degree qualification in a relevant field with extensive relevant experience.
- A Masters or PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Biomedical Informatics, Bioinformatics, Health Services Research, Ageing, Geriatric/Gerontology, Public Health, Medicine or a related field is highly desirable.
- Strong proficiency in at least one statistical software package such as Stata, SAS or R.
- At least three years’ experience independently working with large datasets, ideally in aged care and/or health services research.
- Experience with observational data, multivariable modelling, survival analysis, confounding or interaction issues, and data visualisation.
- Knowledge of Australian aged care and health care systems is desirable.
- Excellent attention to detail, record keeping, time management and written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to prioritise workload, meet deadlines and build effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders.
Special Requirements
- Some out of hours work may be required.
Why Join SAHMRI?
At SAHMRI, you will be part of a world-class health and medical research institute committed to research excellence and improving the quality of life for all people. Our values of excellence, innovation, courage, integrity and teamwork guide how we work together and the impact we strive to make for the community.
As a not-for-profit organisation, SAHMRI employees can access salary packaging options up to $15,900. Salary packaging lets you pay for things like the everyday costs of living with money from your salary before tax. This reduces your taxable income, meaning you could pay less tax and take home more of what you earn. For more information on salary packaging please see the Maxxia website.
To be considered for this position, applicants must hold relevant working rights within Australia at the time of application.
For more information, please contact Johannes Schwabe at [email protected]
Applications close: Monday 17th August 2026
Applications may close earlier than advertised if a suitable candidate is found prior to the close date.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply
