| Location: Illinois: Chicago Job Description: - Works with partners to identify analytical approaches to solve specific research questions.
- Holds primary responsibility for data management and analysis of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations.
- Cleans, merges, and matches data, and runs sampling and randomization across multiple projects.
- Prepares results of models for memos, spreadsheets, and presentations targeting both policymakers and academic researchers.
- Installs, sets up and performs experiments; interacting with students and other laboratory staff under the direction of the principal investigator.
- Maintains recruiting and scheduling research subjects; assisting with developing or amending study protocols; assisting with developing data collection tools; assisting with building databases; and providing general administrative support. Has general awareness in research techniques or methods, regulatory policies and procedures, and relevant scientific field.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications Education: - Bachelor's degree in economics, sociology, public policy or other relevant social/mathematical science field.
- Coursework in econometrics and/or mathematical statistics.
- Master's degree.
Experience: - A minimum of one year of relevant research experience; experience gained in school counts towards requirement.
- Working knowledge with large and complex datasets.
- Proficiency with one or more languages such as R, Stata, Python, or SAS.
- Background with relational databases.
- Participation working on field experiments.
- Involved in working with GIS and UNIX servers.
- Familiarity with randomized controlled trials.
Preferred Competencies - Knowledge of workforce development institutions and policy.
- Background working with local organizations in workforce development.
- Strong project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to maintain positive relationships with various stakeholders.
- Strong time management skills with a proven ability to multitask and to prioritize activities to successfully complete projects on tight deadlines with little supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present data in a simple and straightforward way for non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment.
Application Documents - Resume/CV (required)
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- Professional References Contact Information (required)
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