Senior Guidelines Methodologist

The company

The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) is the largest professional community of anaesthesiologists in Europe. The organization strives to promote the professional role of the anaesthesiologist and intensivist, maintain the highest standards of practice and patient safety, and foster an exchange of information by providing educational tools, research support and networking opportunities to members, colleagues, and partners.

The Guidelines team works together with experts to develop important guidelines focused on anaesthesiology, intensive and critical care, emergency medicine, pain, and related subspecialties (i.e., cardiovascular, transfusion medicine, paediatrics, neuro, and obstetrics). The guidelines are evidence-based and developed following a rigorous methodology aiming to help clinician for decision-making in their every-day practice.

Scope

A senior methodologist will be responsible for the development of evidence-based guidelines. The methodologist plays a crucial role in ensuring that guidelines are developed using rigorous methodologies (in accordance with latest international standards, such as GRADE, PRISMA, Cochrane Handbook, SIGN). The methodologist will work in close collaboration with the ESAIC Guidelines team, information specialists and the chairperson and members of each guideline taskforce.

Duties and responsibilities

In collaboration with the ESAIC guidelines team, the methodologist will support the development of ESAIC guidelines and Guidelines Task force members.

• Collaboration with the Guidelines Committee to develop the needs of the Committee
• Methodological Planning: Lead the development of a methodological framework for guideline production, following ESAIC requirements.
• Literature Review and Evidence Synthesis: Oversee the systematic review of literature, based on the literature search performed by an information specialist and synthesis of evidence to generate recommendations.
• Grading recommendations: Grade evidence quality and strength of recommendations using established methodologies (such as GRADE, PRISMA, Cochrane Handbook, SIGN).
• Methodological Guidance and Training: Provide guidance and training to guideline development teams on methodological standards and best practices.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure guidelines adhere to methodological standards and conduct quality assurance checks throughout the development process.

Job description details (in-depth)

• Coordinate COI of Task Force members
• Defining the scope of the guideline in view of already existing guidelines on this topic
• PICO Question generation
• Perform/assist with literature screening
• Perform literature review
• Overview the systematic review process, data extraction
• Grading evidence, create summary of finding tables
• Writing and voting recommendations (Delphi process)
• Draft guideline manuscript (in view of methodology and basic structure)
• Compile and implement comments
• Publication of Guidelines and dissemination
• Update of guideline
• Overview and train young methodologist
• Develop and review internal documents on guidelines methodology best practices

Skills
The candidate should ideally have:

• Master or PhD degree in health services research, biostatistics/statistics, epidemiology, public health, or dedicated proven work experience in the field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis used to develop clinical guidelines and/or health policy
• Experience with Agree, GRADE, PRISMA, Cochrane Handbook, SIGN and with latest international standards.
• Experience in scientific writing
• Experience in using MS Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience in using literature review software (Covidence, Rayyan)
• Experience in software for conducting meta-analysis
• Knowledge about perioperative environment and anaesthesiology is a plus
• Ability to adjust to shifting priorities and the swiftly changing landscape of healthcare policies
• Interaction approach characterized by high energy, strategic thought, collaborative spirit, straightforward communication

ESAIC offers:

• A freelance contract and the opportunity to incorporate your skills within an innovative organisation and further develop your professional abilities
• A part-time freelance contract (0,5 FTE) with flexible working hours and the possibility to telework
• A challenging and varied role in a highly demanding but pleasant, multicultural, academic and international environment.

Interested?

• If this sounds like your profile, please send your CV in English and one page cover letter setting out how your experience fits you for the role described above
  • Deadline for application 05 June 2024. Please send your application to jobs@esaic.org with “Freelance Senior Guidelines methodologist” in the email subject.
• For further information about the post, please contact the ESAIC Guidelines Team (guidelines@esaic.org)