Research Specialist II

Responsibilities

• Preparing new supplemental contextual and administrative files.
  • Developing supplemental files from diverse and complex government and administrative data sources.
  • Standardizing new data files to FFCWS variable naming and missing data conventions.
  • Quality checking files.
  • Creating technical documentation.
• Programming, including writing Stata code to:
  • Review and carefully check quality and consistency of complex, raw survey response data files.
  • Convert raw survey response data files to fully-cleaned, well-organized data files following established data release conventions.
  • Review and carefully check quality and consistency of fully-cleaned data files.
• Providing extensive technical support to researchers and data users via email queries, introductory tutorials, and presentations for new data users, including conference travel.

Qualifications

• Essential Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, sociology, social work, economics, psychology, public policy or a related field, with at least 3 years of work experience doing programming for a quantitative social science research project. Experience working with large, longitudinal surveys. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. Intermediate to advanced skills using Stata OR intermediate to advanced skills using Python, R, or SAS, or SPSS and the desire and ability to quickly learn Stata.
• Prior experience with FFCWS data, or with other large, longitudinal social science datasets (PSID, Add Health, NLSY, etc.) is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees.