Senior Psychometrician

RTI International; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

RTI Health Solutions seeks a Senior Psychometrician to join the Patient-Centered Outcomes Assessment (PCOA) team. The role involves strategic leadership on psychometric methods, study design, regulatory strategy, and communication with clients across healthcare research projects.

The candidate will design and conduct traditional and modern psychometric analyses, interpret evidence for regulatory interactions, and contribute to proposals and growth initiatives within the PCOA practice.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in quantitative psychology, statistics, biostatistics, or related field with at least 10 years of directly related experience, or a PhD and a minimum of 5 years of directly related experience.
• Extensive experience independently preparing psychometric analysis plans and reports of clinical outcome assessments for regulatory review.
• Proficiency in SAS and/or R programming (expertise in both strongly preferred), with experience using latent variable and psychometric modeling software packages.
• Experience in psychometric evaluation of outcome measures including classical methods, factor analysis, and Rasch/IRT.
• Experience implementing hierarchical linear modeling, repeated measures models, mixture models.
• Demonstrated ability to work well independently and as team leader.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (both written and oral).
• Experience supporting regulatory submissions and interactions with health authorities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic scientific leadership on psychometric and outcomes research programs, including design, endpoints, regulatory strategy, interpretation of evidence, and client decision-making.
• Design, oversee, and conduct classical and modern psychometric analyses to support development, evaluation, and regulatory acceptance of clinical outcome assessments.
• Analyze, interpret, and clearly communicate psychometric results to clients within deadlines.
• Produce high-quality psychometric analysis plans, technical reports, and manuscripts.
• Lead and contribute to proposals, thought leadership initiatives, methodological innovation, and business development for the PCOA practice.
• Communicate effectively with clients and team members via email, phone, and in person.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Leadership

Independent work

Regulatory interactions

Excellent communication

Education

Master’s degree in quantitative psychology or related field

PhD in related field

Tools

SAS

R programming

Latent variable modeling

Rasch Measurement / IRT

Job description

About the Hiring Group

RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RTI International, is an independent and internationally recognized research organization. With offices in the US, UK, Spain, France, and Sweden, we provide healthcare consulting and research expertise to optimize decision making for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device products across the development and marketing lifecycle. Clients rely on our expertise, quality standards, and integrity to guide their product development and regulatory and market access strategies.

Our various practice areas include Value, Access, and HEOR; Patient-Centered and Outcomes Research; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Medical Communications; Global Business Operations; and Strategic Consulting and Growth.

We are currently seeking a Senior Psychometrician to join our Patient-Centered Outcomes Assessment (PCOA) team.

This role can be office-based, hybrid, or remote in the UK or one of our European office locations, including Spain, France, and Sweden.

What You'll Do

RTI-HS psychometricians serve both a strategic and technical role within interdisciplinary research teams. They provide scientific leadership on the development, evaluation and application of clinical outcome assessments; guide psychometric and outcomes research strategies for clients, including participating in regulatory interactions; and are responsible designing, implementing and interpreting a variety of technical analyses.

• Provide strategic scientific leadership on psychometric and outcomes research programs, including study design, endpoint selection, regulatory strategy, interpretation of evidence, and client decision-making.
• Design, oversee, and conduct classical and modern psychometric analyses, interpretation of meaningful within-patient change, and advanced statistical analyses to support the development, evaluation, and regulatory acceptance of clinical outcome assessments
• Accurately analyse, interpret, and clearly communicate psychometric results to clients within specified deadlines.
• Produce high-quality psychometric analysis plans, technical reports, and manuscripts.
• Lead and contribute to proposals, thought leadership initiatives, methodological innovation, and business development activities that support growth of the PCOA practice.
• Communicate effectively (via email, telephone, and in-person) with clients and team members.

What You'll Need

• Master’s degree in quantitative psychology, statistics, biostatistics, or related field with at least 10 years of directly related experience, or a PhD and a minimum of 5 years of directly related experience.
• Extensive experience independently preparing psychometric analysis plans and reports of clinical outcome assessments for regulatory review.
• Demonstrated proficiency in SAS and/or R programming (expertise in both strongly preferred), along with experience using latent variable and psychometric modeling software packages.
• Significant experience related to the psychometric evaluation of outcome measures, including classical psychometric methods (e.g., evaluations of test-retest reliability and internal consistency), exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and Rasch Measurement and/or Item Response Theory.
• Experience implementing hierarchical linear modeling, repeated measures models, mixture models.
• Demonstrated ability to work well independently and as team leader.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (both written and oral).
• Experience supporting regulatory submissions and interactions with health authorities related to clinical outcome assessments, endpoint strategies, psychometric evidence, or patient-focused drug development initiatives.