Research Statistician I
Job Description
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, social science, math/science field or equivalent experience
- One to three years of demonstrated proficiency with statistical analysis programing (SAS, R, or Python preferred)
- Experience handling and manipulating large-scale data
- Experience with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), with an emphasis on MS Word and Excel
- Scripting and programming skills, and data-oriented personality
- Strong organization, prioritization, and multitasking skills, both independently and as the member of a team
- Adept problem-solving skills, including using data to inform decisions and actions
- Proficiency in developing and implementing analytical models with complex data
- Research skills and expertise in methodology
- Ability to translate general inquiries into analysis questions and tasks
- Organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Keen attention to detail
- Ability to function in a team-oriented unit
- You must be authorized to work in the US
RESPONSIBILITES
Statistical Analysis (30%)
- Support operational work by performing standardized analyses
- Support statistical analyses using large-scale internal data
- Produce standard tables and graphical displays of large-scale statistical results
- Produce data aggregations (descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients)
- Write basic queries, programs, and generate reports representing a variety of formats
- Work with a variety of data files representing item-, student-, school-, district-, institution-, state- and national-levels
Data Manipulation (30%)
- Help organize data into a variety of formats to permit for use in specialized statistical software used for research or psychometric work
- Manipulate output from statistical analysis for use in statistical analyses
Quality Management (30%)
- Maintain process maps and procedures for efficient and thorough documentation of how the statistical analyses were completed and reports were generated
- Create and maintain dataset documentation and layouts
- Implement QC procedures on all statistical analyses
- Identifying and implementing the quality checks and validations for critical business process changes/impacts.
- Performing detailed review of project deliverables/outputs such as process documents, publications, requirements etc.
Research (10%)
- Support the fulfillment of large-scale, strategically important research and analysis projects
- Undertake research and analysis projects as secondary investigator
- Implement QC procedures on all statistical analyses
- Provide personalized data representing a variety of data sources (internal) to research scientists and psychometricians. These data include student performance, meta data, standards, student overall test scores, school/district/institution data and related attributes
- Provide research support and guidance to colleagues
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