Donor and Product Safety Biostatistician

• Apply your biostatistical and analytical expertise to drive research, inform critical safety decisions, and help safeguard donor and patient outcomes.
• Offering a Permanent full-time or part-time opportunity (0.6) depending on experience
• Offering salary starting from $125k + super + salary packaging
• National role can be based at any one of our National Processing Centres + WFH

Discover life-giving possibilities

Lifeblood is more than just a job or a career, it’s an opportunity to be part of something that matters. As an organisation, our purpose is simple: life giving donations, for life changing outcomes. Together, we want to help you build a fulfilling career with Lifeblood.
 

About the role  

The Donor and Product Safety Biostatistician/Data Analyst plays a pivotal role within the Donor and Product Safety Policy Unit (DPU), part of the Pathology and Clinical Governance team. This position is responsible for providing expert statistical and analytical leadership to support donor and product safety initiatives, business operations, and research activities that contribute to the safety and quality of Lifeblood’s products and services.

Combining advanced scientific, biostatistical, and data analytics expertise, the role drives the development, planning, and delivery of routine reporting, research projects, and complex statistical analyses. The successful candidate will apply innovative analytical and modelling approaches to address emerging challenges, including assessing and responding to changes in donor adverse event trends.

Working collaboratively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, this role offers the opportunity to influence evidence-based decision-making, contribute to high-impact research, and play a key role in safeguarding donor and patient outcomes.

Some travel is required as part of this role. 

Sound interesting? Here’s what we’re looking for: 

• Tertiary qualification in statistics, mathematics or econometrics or a science degree and a post graduate qualification in statistics
• Work experience as a statistician or data analyst in a medical or epidemiology environment.
• Applied expertise in advanced statistical methods to solve real-world challenges such as clustered and longitudinal data, missing data, rare events, and data linkage. Examples include generalised linear models, survival analysis, mixed models, and Bayesian approaches.
• Proficient in the analysis of technical, quantitative and/or qualitative data, as appropriate to the role, including excellent working knowledge of analytic and statistical software such as R, STATA and/or SPSS.
• Experience in contributing to research projects, including project design, analysis and interpretation of data.
• Evidence of contribution to quality presentations, conference papers, and/or publications in high quality peer reviewed journals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating an ability to communicate research outcomes in high quality presentations, briefings or written reports to a range of audiences, including non-researchers.
• Ability to work independently and in a team; ability to work to deadlines whilst maintaining high quality standards.
• Knowledge and experience with Power BI reporting and Databricks platform is desirable

Benefits and Wellbeing

We place our employee's well-being at the forefront and express gratitude and care for one another. As an Australian Workplace Equality Index recognised employer and one of Australia’s menopause-friendly organisations, we celebrate diversity and support all our people.

In addition to being a part of an organisation that is the heartbeat of the nation, you will have access to the following:

• Ability to purchase additional annual leave
• Access to salary packaging with an option to package up to $15,900 for living expenses and $2,650 for meals and entertainment
• 14 weeks paid parental leave - no waiting period for either parent
• Our dedicated employee assistance program - Sonder that you can access 24/7 from an app on your phone
• Plus, many more!

Is Lifeblood your reason? Apply NOW!

We’re proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer for 2026 and commit to respond to every applicant. You’ll hear from us once your application has been reviewed. 

Have a question about the role or do you need support or adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process? Email Sami, our AI Careers Assistant, at careers@redcrossblood.org.au. Sami can help with common questions, and if your question needs more support, it will be escalated to our Talent Acquisition team.

Please note: we can’t accept applications sent directly to this email address.

This vacancy is being managed directly by Lifeblood’s Talent Acquisition team. We won’t be accepting applications from external recruitment agencies for this role.