Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hanover Research is hiring a Senior Research Associate to gather and prepare data for a K-12 dashboard project. The role focuses on collecting public education and occupational data across U.S. states, organizing it, and checking its quality and alignment with project parameters.
Responsibilities
- Identify public datasets for education and occupation data across a range of U.S. states
- Download and organize data
- Check data for alignment against project parameters, including linking regional segments in the public datasets to counties
Skills
- High comfort level with Microsoft Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Experience working with and preparing real-world datasets for analysis, including identifying data and checking data quality and fit with project needs
- Willingness and ability to learn new quantitative skills as necessary and apply them in new contexts
- Experience with institution-level K-12 education data and occupational data
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills
- Willingness to tackle complex, often unfamiliar research requests
- Ability to collaborate and strategize with senior-level researchers
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required, given the remote nature of the team
- Demonstrable, strong work ethic
- Ability to accept feedback and constructive critique positively
- Strong command of the English language and demonstrated writing and editing skills, including experience explaining complex statistical concepts to non-technical audience
- A Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, another Social Science with quantitative training, or related quantitative discipline
- 1 - 2 years of work experience (or equivalent academic work) conducting quantitative research and analysis
- Experience working in the K-12 education sector (for example, in institutional research, assessment, or evaluation)
Benefits
- Remote opportunity (USA)
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