Westat offers innovative professional services to help clients improve outcomes in health, education, social policy, and transportation. We are dedicated to improving lives through research.

Westat is seeking a Lead Education Research Associate-Data Analyst to work closely with a multidisciplinary research team conducting education research and evaluation projects. In this role you will use your excellent analytic and communication skills and strong attention to detail to support Westat’s project work.

This position is remote based. Occasional visits to our Rockville, Maryland office is encouraged.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to project staff by working with statisticians and overseeing programmers on education research.
• Write programming specifications for cleaning of administrative data and data analysis.
• Develop restricted-use files and documentation.
• Check data fields, web programming specifications, and data from online surveys.
• Coordinate with statisticians to review sampling and weighting plans.
• Conduct quality control for data deliverables.
• Assist in developing analysis plans.
• Contribute to report writing.
• Contribute to proposals for new projects.

Basic Qualifications

• A Master’s degree in a social science field (e.g., economics, public policy, sociology, education, psychology) and 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience working with large-scale data sets and conducting statistical analyses with software packages (e.g., R, SAS, or Stata).
• Experience working with longitudinal student-level education K-12 data sets.
• U.S. Citizenship is required by contract.

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of sampling and weighting.
• Training in research methods.
• Experience working with large-scale federal education K-12 data sets, such as EDFacts, Common Core of Data, Consolidated State Performance Reports, or Civil Rights Data Collection.

Other Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated communication skills.
• Collaboration with teams, managers and/or clients.
• Organization skills, including time management ability.
• Detail oriented.