Looking for a dynamic career with a company that encourages and rewards creativity and fresh thinking?
Do you love turning the complex into something simple and easy to understand?
Do you want to take on a new challenge in a global organisation?
If you answered yes to these, then we have the role for you…

We currently have a full-time vacancy for a Statistician within our statistics department at Nielsen Television Audience Measurement – the TV ratings company. We are the official source of television audience measurement for the free to air networks and subscription television channels in Australia.

The role of Statistician supports the delivery of the Establishment Survey (ES) through all stages of the process covering questionnaire design, sampling, tracking CATI fieldwork performance results, weighting, and tabulating/reporting trends.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Maintain all supporting databases relating to sampling frames and geographic boundaries (such as A.B.S. Australia Post)
• Coordinate and administer questionnaire design activities
• Track weekly performance results
• Prepare interim and final tabulations and reports, including population projection/weighting
• Support internal panel management initiatives
• Maintain process documentation
• Lend support and backup to the Statistics team members on daily tasks as well as service enhancements and improvements

The competencies and experience required for the position are as follows:

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• Fluent in statistical techniques such as sampling and weighting, preferably with a tertiary degree in Statistics
• Sound working knowledge of SAS programming
• An ability to work to tight deadlines
• Multi-tasking skills and dealing/communicating with different departments
• An ability to learn quickly

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