Research Statistician

Research Statistician

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Research Statistician I 

College Board – Psychometrics 

NYO or Remote 

  

About the Team 

The Psychometrics Team supports College Board in serving more than seven million students a year as they prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success. College Board’s Psychometrics provides its partners with measurement solutions that set the standard for quality, efficiency and innovation through operational excellence and research leadership that advances the field of Psychometrics and supports College Board’s mission of access and equity in Education.  

About the Opportunity 

This Research Statistician I position is part of the Advanced Placement Psychometric team and will be responsible for supporting both operational and research psychometric work. You will have opportunities to innovate and help find new or improved ways to accomplish the tasks at hand. You will work individually and collaboratively with members of the team and the greater organization on operational data and statistical analyses, research discovery, documentation, procedures, reporting projects, and research projects.    

 In this role you will: 

Statistical Analysis 

  • Support operational work by performing standardized analyses 

  • Support statistical analyses using large-scale internal data 

  • Produce standard tables and graphical displays of large-scale statistical results 

  • Produce data aggregations (descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients) 

  • Write basic queries, programs, and generate reports representing a variety of formats 

  • Work with a variety of data files representing item-, student-, school-, district-, institution-, state- and national-levels 

Data Manipulation 

  • Help organize data into a variety of formats to permit for use in specialized statistical software used for research or psychometric work 

  • Manipulate output from statistical analysis for use in statistical analyses 

Quality Management 

  • Maintain process maps and procedures for efficient and thorough documentation of how the statistical analyses were completed and reports were generated 

  • Create and maintain dataset documentation and layouts 

  • Implement QC procedures on all statistical analyses 

  • Identifying and implementing the quality checks and validations for critical business process changes/impacts. 

  • Performing detailed review of project deliverables/outputs such as process documents, publications, requirements etc. 

Research  

  • Support the fulfillment of large-scale, strategically important research and analysis projects 

  • Undertake research and analysis projects as secondary investigator  

  • Implement QC procedures on all statistical analyses 

  • Provide personalized data representing a variety of data sources (internal) to research scientists and psychometricians. These data include student performance, meta data, standards, student overall test scores, school/district/institution data and related attributes 

  • Provide research support and guidance to colleagues 

About you 

You have:  

  • Bachelor’s degree in statistics, social science, math/science field or equivalent experience 

  • One to three years of demonstrated proficiency with statistical analysis programing (SAS, R, or Python preferred) 

  • Experience handling and manipulating large-scale data  

  • Experience with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), with an emphasis on MS Word and Excel 

  • Scripting and programming skills, and data-oriented personality 

  • Strong organization, prioritization, and multitasking skills, both independently and as the member of a team    

  • Adept problem-solving skills, including using data to inform decisions and actions    

  • Research skills and expertise in methodology 

  • Ability to translate general inquiries into analysis questions and tasks 

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 

  • Keen attention to detail 

  • Ability to function in a team-oriented unit 

About Our Benefits and Compensation 

College Board offers a strong compensation and benefits package that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education.   

  • Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, tuition assistance, paid time off, paid parental leave, retirement benefits with a generous matching program, and more.  

  • We reward performance through annual bonuses and provide opportunities for salary growth over time through base compensation increases, merit raises and promotions. 

  • We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact. The salary range for a new employee in this position is $56,000-100,000 USD. The salary offer of an individual candidate within this range is specific to their location and qualifications. 

  • Each salary offer is determined carefully using internal and external benchmarking and adjusting for the candidate’s location. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process. 

As a self-sustaining non-profit organization with global impact, College Board offers a job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive! 

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