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Research Analyst
The Research Analyst will be part of a growing team at the USC EdPolicy Hub at the USC Rossier School of Education. The Hub collaborates with Southern California schools education systems and community colleges to codesign and conduct relevant research. Results will help partners navigate challenges and improve outcomes and equity for students across the region through research and evidence.
In pursuit of this end the Hub both conducts cuttingedge research on critical topics for the field and develops research networks that can answer questions for and better support education leaders throughout the region. The Research Analyst will be a critical part of our team performing data analysis on large education data sets to help education leaders in the region learn whats working and whats not.
We are seeking a detailoriented Research Analyst to work with across multiple school districts and research projects to clean analyze and report on administrative data for Hub research projects.
This position is an inperson or hybrid job located in Los Angeles.
Principal duties and responsibilities:
The Research Analyst will typically work across several projects and/or research partners in close collaboration with faculty and senior researchers at USC and (sometimes) other institutions. Specific responsibilities include:
Cleaning and performing quality checks on administrative and research data provided by research partners
Automating repeated routine procedures such as file intake conversion inspection and summarization with extensible scripts that can be deployed across different projects
Designing and maintaining pipelines to automate reports from output generated by a statistical program such as R or Stata
Managing and analyzing large administrative datasets including timeseries and panel data spanning multiple school years schools and districts
Understanding and executing sophisticated analyses on large data sets as guided by senior researchers on relevant projects
Developing and managing quantitative workflows that are transparent logically organized and clearly documented to facilitate sharing and reproducibility
Participating and contributing to team meetings on assigned projects
Authoring sections of Hub produced research reports and academic papers
Presenting results from Hub projects to research partners in the field and at academic and practitioner conferences
Basic Qualifications:
Masters degree in a relevant quantitative social science field required (e.g. public policy political science economics education policy social science statistics or a related field). Two years of related work experience required. Substantial experience programming in Stata or R. Demonstrated leadership in developing new ideas and ability to publish in appropriate academic and practitioner outlets. Demonstrated independent thinking and leadership in scholarly writing.
Additional Qualifications:
Ph.D. preferred.
Previous experience working with large data sets ideally longitudinal studentlevel administrative data from education agencies.
Experience working on multifunctional research teams.
Familiarity with dynamic document publishing tools in Stata or R that integrate programming code statistical output and narrative text (e.g. Quarto R Markdown Jupyter or LaTeX)
Familiarity with versioning software tools for code development such as Git or other tools to enforce version control
Preferred Experience
Experience working in or with U.S. education agencies preferred
This positions annual base salary range is $88000$95000. When extending an offer of employment the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position the candidates work experience education/training key skills internal peer equity federal state and local laws contractual stipulations grant funding as well as external market and organizational considerations.
Applications should be submitted viaand should include the following:
Candidates must submit a cover letter resume and transcript (official or unofficial) as a single PDF document. Any applicant wishing to be considered for this position must indicate that they meet all of the basic requirements in either the cover letter or resume. Candidates selected for additional screening and interviews will be required to provide R or Stata programming scripts for review by members of the hiring committee.
This position is a term appointment for one year from the date of hire with a strong possibility of continuation.
Minimum Education: Masters degreeAddtional Education Requirements Combined experience/education as substitute for minimum education
Minimum Experience: 2 years
Minimum Skills: Statistics econometrics and/or biostatistics experience. Experience with relevant data analysis programs (e.g. R Python SAS SPSS). Excellent written and oral communications skills. Proven analytical and problemsolving skills.
Preferred Experience: 3 years
USC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability or any other characteristic protected by law or USC policy. USC observes affirmative action obligations consistent with state and federal law. USC will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal records in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for employers and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and with due consideration for patient and student safety. Please refer to theBackground Screening Policy Appendix Dfor specific employment screen implications for the position for which you are applying.
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