Lightcast
Moscow, ID
201-500 employees
Illuminating the future of work and moving forward with clarity, using the world’s best data-driven talent strategies.
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Research Analyst
Research Analyst
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About the Role
Lightcast is driving the national conversation around some of the most critical issues facing workers and job markets. A Research Analyst on the Community Consulting is expected to play a vital role supporting our public and client-based research.
Key Responsibilities
Leverage labor market data to address client needs in education, government, and the private sector through a combination of data analysis and narrative and visual storytelling.
Data Analysis
- Manipulate big data by querying, subsetting, aggregating, and transforming data from job postings, resumes, and public and third-party sources
- Use SQL and Python to access and manipulate our data
- Integrate (join or merge) internal and external datasets to enable robust analyses
- Compare summary statistics on supply and demand across industries and geographies
- Construct indices to measure labor market concepts such as innovation and digitization
- Perform trend analyses to measure changes in job characteristics over time
- Write custom data queries to identify emerging jobs and skills
Narrative and visual storytelling
- Generate first drafts of client-ready outputs in Excel and PowerPoint
- Contribute to written reports on research outcomes
- Work with designers to develop reports, websites, or other collateral
- Participate in client meetings and presentations
- Present research to the Applied Research team and other Lightcast teams
- Deliver successful outcomes for clients through on time execution of assigned tasks and project milestones.
- Contribute to positive team dynamics by participating in team-building activities and being a supportive colleague.
- Contribute to the company’s growth by joining internal projects, such as those that develop data models for new products and initiatives.
- Contribute to tool and project documentation, such as summarizing overall project methodology and detailing steps to facilitate reproducibility.
- Demonstrate professionalgrowth in research sophistication, client-readiness, and team leadership
- Growth is expected in a majority of the following areas:
- Contribute to increasingly complex project assignments
- Perform more advanced queries and analyses
- Contribute to novel research methodologies
- Develop domain-specific knowledge that corresponds to Applied Research project areas
- Achieve advanced proficiency in data visualization
- Demonstrate strong client-facing presentation skills
- Develop project management capabilities
- Identify and capture client and stakeholder needs and integrate client and stakeholder input to maximize project value
- Assume more client- or stakeholder-management responsibilities
- Collaborate across teams at Lightcast, for example connecting research to work in Ontology or Product
- Lead internal projects, such as those that strengthen the Applied Research team or advance internal research initiatives
- Lead external, client-facing projects that form an important part of an overall client engagement
- Identify areas of interest and develop goals for professional development
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our team, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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