Research Specialist - Qualitative
Trellis · Round Rock, TX · 1 mo ago
Analyst$55k–$65k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The job summary is like description. We'll create sections: About the role (maybe from job summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (qualifications, knowledge, skills, abilities), Benefits (compensation and benefits). Also maybe Skills? But we can combine.
We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate (EEO etc). Also remove non-essential duties? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Non-essential duties may be considered less essential but still substantive? They are part of posting; we should keep them? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could combine essential and non-essential duties under Responsibilities. But we must preserve all substantive info; we can include them in responsibilities.
We must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Compensation and benefits is present, so we can include Benefits section with salary range, incentive, holidays, health etc.
We should not create Schedule section because not present.
We should not create Pay separate; we can include in Benefits.
We need headings: for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can choose which sections to include based on content.
We'll have:
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can choose which sections to include based on content.
We'll have:
About the role
with job summary paragraph.
Responsibilities
with - list of essential duties and non-essential duties combined.
Requirements
with - list of qualifications, knowledge, skills, abilities, education, experience.
Maybe separate Qualifications and Skills? But we can combine under Requirements to avoid thin sections.
We need to preserve all substantive info: include education required, preferred, experience required, etc. Also include knowledge, skills, abilities list.
Also include competencies? Those are also substantive; we could include under Requirements as well.
We must not repeat job title.
We must not include EEO boilerplate.
We must not include duplicated lines.
Let's extract content.
Job Summary paragraph: "The Research Specialist will perform research in support of various initiatives for the Trellis Strategies. The individual will produce reports related to Trellis client needs, conduct various qualitative research projects, and support other researchers as members of project teams. The Research Specialist will implement survey instruments, conduct interviews, and focus groups, code transcripts, and draft reports for clients. The individual will use MS Excel and similar tools for queries of internal and public databases to generate reports and databases for Trellis management and clients. The individual will provide quality control including reconciling and proofreading reports. The Research Specialist must be able to contribute to projects, exercise sound time management skills, demonstrate attention to detail, and work with a moderate amount of independence. The individual will support communication efforts to promote Trellis Strategies to a variety of audiences including the development of research briefs and various other social media related outreach."
Essential duties list (each line starts with a verb). We'll capture each bullet.
Essential duties:
- Lead standard qualitative research projects including administering survey instruments, focus groups, and interviews.
- Assist in other research projects including navigating publicly available databases for relevant information and conducting landscape assessments on specific topics.
- Independently draft reports related to best practices in postsecondary education and workforce development for external consumption.
- Develop and recommend appropriate research and data management techniques including identifying and resolving incongruities between research requirements and available data.
- In consultation with research staff, decide on the most efficient and effective technical means for achieving research objective including how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display data.
- Perform quality control checks on reports generated by the team.
- Contribute to transcription and analysis of focus groups, manages data, and codes relevant data.
- Build tables in MS Excel and performs data cleaning.
- Develop communication tools to present Trellis Strategies to a broad audience base including via social media.
- Contribute to project teams and small, informal research teams to carry out research objectives.
- Contribute to recruitment efforts for large-scale research projects, including participant outreach, client communication, and recruitment tracking to support study enrollment goals.
- Uses AI tools appropriately to support research tasks such as transcription, preliminary coding, and landscape scans, applying professional judgment to review and verify outputs, and adhering to data privacy, confidentiality, and IRB requirements when handling participant data.
- Participate in training and other learning opportunities to ensure compliance and expand knowledge of company, position, and process.
Non-essential duties:
- Assist with how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display information.
- Work under general supervision with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
- Respond to internal and external customer requests for ad hoc reports.
- Perform all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Must be available to work flexible hours.
- Support other functions and responsibilities of the department.
- Interact with all levels of management as necessary.
- Contribute to the development of strategic initiatives.
Competencies list: many words; we can keep as a list.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities list:
- Skilled in utilizing AI-enabled tools and technologies to improve efficiency, enhance work quality and outcomes, and support innovation and continuous process improvement.
- Strong communication and writing skills.
- Strong analytical and qualitative research skills.
- Ability to use qualitative analytical tools such as MAXQDA, Atlas.ti, etc.
- Strong MS Office skillset, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management).
- Knowledge and understanding of issues related to college student success and financial challenges.
- Good time management.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Knowledge of higher education public policy.
- Ability to program in a qualitative coding software.
Qualifications:
Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in business administration or social sciences, or related area. Preferred: Graduate degree.
Experience Required: One (1) year of working with student success research or two (2) years of research in another social science or policy area. Three (3) years of data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management). Graduate training in business administration or the social sciences may substitute on a year for year basis, for the three (3) years of data and management reporting. Preferred: Experience cleaning data, building tables in MS Excel, and coding qualitative data. Experience conducting interviews and writing research papers. Project management training or experience.
Physical and mental demands and work environment: we could include under Requirements or maybe separate section? The instruction: we can include if substantive. Could add a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings list; we have only those headings. Could put under Requirements as well.
Compensation and benefits:
Base salary range: $55,000-$65,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience. Eligible for a discretionary annual incentive, subject to Board approval. 12 paid holidays. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.
We'll output HTML fragment.
We must not include any markdown fences.
Let's craft.
We'll have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Benefits
- ...
...
We need to ensure we include all substantive info.
Let's write About the role paragraph exactly as job summary.
Now Responsibilities: combine essential and non-essential duties. We'll list each as - .
We must be careful not to duplicate lines. Ensure we include each bullet once.
Let's list them:
Essential:
1. Lead standard qualitative research projects including administering survey instruments, focus groups, and interviews.
2. Assist in other research projects including navigating publicly available databases for relevant information and conducting landscape assessments on specific topics.
3. Independently draft reports related to best practices in postsecondary education and workforce development for external consumption.
4. Develop and recommend appropriate research and data management techniques including identifying and resolving incongruities between research requirements and available data.
5. In consultation with research staff, decide on the most efficient and effective technical means for achieving research objective including how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display data.
6. Perform quality control checks on reports generated by the team.
7. Contribute to transcription and analysis of focus groups, manages data, and codes relevant data.
8. Build tables in MS Excel and performs data cleaning.
9. Develop communication tools to present Trellis Strategies to a broad audience base including via social media.
10. Contribute to project teams and small, informal research teams to carry out research objectives.
11. Contribute to recruitment efforts for large-scale research projects, including participant outreach, client communication, and recruitment tracking to support study enrollment goals.
12. Uses AI tools appropriately to support research tasks such as transcription, preliminary coding, and landscape scans, applying professional judgment to review and verify outputs, and adhering to data privacy, confidentiality, and IRB requirements when handling participant data.
13. Participate in training and other learning opportunities to ensure compliance and expand knowledge of company, position, and process.
Non-essential:
14. Assist with how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display information.
15. Work under general supervision with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
16. Respond to internal and external customer requests for ad hoc reports.
17. Perform all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
18. Must be available to work flexible hours.
19. Support other functions and responsibilities of the department.
20. Interact with all levels of management as necessary.
21. Contribute to the development of strategic initiatives.
Now Requirements: include education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies, physical/mental demands, work environment.
We'll list each as
- .
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration or social sciences, or related area (required); Graduate degree preferred.
Experience:
- One (1) year of working with student success research or two (2) years of research in another social science or policy area.
- Three (3) years of data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management). Graduate training in business administration or the social sciences may substitute on a year for year basis, for the three (3) years of data and management reporting.
- Preferred: Experience cleaning data, building tables in MS Excel, and coding qualitative data.
- Experience conducting interviews and writing research papers.
- Project management training or experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Skilled in utilizing AI-enabled tools and technologies to improve efficiency, enhance work quality and outcomes, and support innovation and continuous process improvement.
- Strong communication and writing skills.
- Strong analytical and qualitative research skills.
- Ability to use qualitative analytical tools such as MAXQDA, Atlas.ti, etc.
- Strong MS Office skillset, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management).
- Knowledge and understanding of issues related to college student success and financial challenges.
- Good time management.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Knowledge of higher education public policy.
- Ability to program in a qualitative coding software.
Competencies (list):
- Action Oriented
- Builds Effective Teams
- Business Insight
- Champion Change
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Compliance
- Consulting
- Cultivating Innovation
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Demonstrates Self-Awareness
- Diversity Focused
- Drives Results
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Organizational Savvy
- Plans and Aligns
- Relationship management
- Resourcefulness
- Self-Development
- Situational Adaptability
- Strategic Mindset
Physical and Mental Demands:
- Occasionally must move about inside the office.
- Repetitive motion.
- Regularly operates a computer, phone, and general office equipment.
- Regularly required to handle, feel,
Requirements
with- list of qualifications, knowledge, skills, abilities, education, experience.
Maybe separate Qualifications and Skills? But we can combine under Requirements to avoid thin sections.
We need to preserve all substantive info: include education required, preferred, experience required, etc. Also include knowledge, skills, abilities list.
Also include competencies? Those are also substantive; we could include under Requirements as well.
We must not repeat job title.
We must not include EEO boilerplate.
We must not include duplicated lines.
Let's extract content.
Job Summary paragraph: "The Research Specialist will perform research in support of various initiatives for the Trellis Strategies. The individual will produce reports related to Trellis client needs, conduct various qualitative research projects, and support other researchers as members of project teams. The Research Specialist will implement survey instruments, conduct interviews, and focus groups, code transcripts, and draft reports for clients. The individual will use MS Excel and similar tools for queries of internal and public databases to generate reports and databases for Trellis management and clients. The individual will provide quality control including reconciling and proofreading reports. The Research Specialist must be able to contribute to projects, exercise sound time management skills, demonstrate attention to detail, and work with a moderate amount of independence. The individual will support communication efforts to promote Trellis Strategies to a variety of audiences including the development of research briefs and various other social media related outreach."
Essential duties list (each line starts with a verb). We'll capture each bullet.
Essential duties:
- Lead standard qualitative research projects including administering survey instruments, focus groups, and interviews.
- Assist in other research projects including navigating publicly available databases for relevant information and conducting landscape assessments on specific topics.
- Independently draft reports related to best practices in postsecondary education and workforce development for external consumption.
- Develop and recommend appropriate research and data management techniques including identifying and resolving incongruities between research requirements and available data.
- In consultation with research staff, decide on the most efficient and effective technical means for achieving research objective including how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display data.
- Perform quality control checks on reports generated by the team.
- Contribute to transcription and analysis of focus groups, manages data, and codes relevant data.
- Build tables in MS Excel and performs data cleaning.
- Develop communication tools to present Trellis Strategies to a broad audience base including via social media.
- Contribute to project teams and small, informal research teams to carry out research objectives.
- Contribute to recruitment efforts for large-scale research projects, including participant outreach, client communication, and recruitment tracking to support study enrollment goals.
- Uses AI tools appropriately to support research tasks such as transcription, preliminary coding, and landscape scans, applying professional judgment to review and verify outputs, and adhering to data privacy, confidentiality, and IRB requirements when handling participant data.
- Participate in training and other learning opportunities to ensure compliance and expand knowledge of company, position, and process.
Non-essential duties:
- Assist with how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display information.
- Work under general supervision with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.
- Respond to internal and external customer requests for ad hoc reports.
- Perform all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Must be available to work flexible hours.
- Support other functions and responsibilities of the department.
- Interact with all levels of management as necessary.
- Contribute to the development of strategic initiatives.
Competencies list: many words; we can keep as a list.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities list:
- Skilled in utilizing AI-enabled tools and technologies to improve efficiency, enhance work quality and outcomes, and support innovation and continuous process improvement.
- Strong communication and writing skills.
- Strong analytical and qualitative research skills.
- Ability to use qualitative analytical tools such as MAXQDA, Atlas.ti, etc.
- Strong MS Office skillset, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management).
- Knowledge and understanding of issues related to college student success and financial challenges.
- Good time management.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Knowledge of higher education public policy.
- Ability to program in a qualitative coding software.
Qualifications:
Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in business administration or social sciences, or related area. Preferred: Graduate degree.
Experience Required: One (1) year of working with student success research or two (2) years of research in another social science or policy area. Three (3) years of data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management). Graduate training in business administration or the social sciences may substitute on a year for year basis, for the three (3) years of data and management reporting. Preferred: Experience cleaning data, building tables in MS Excel, and coding qualitative data. Experience conducting interviews and writing research papers. Project management training or experience.
Physical and mental demands and work environment: we could include under Requirements or maybe separate section? The instruction: we can include if substantive. Could add a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings list; we have only those headings. Could put under Requirements as well.
Compensation and benefits:
Base salary range: $55,000-$65,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience. Eligible for a discretionary annual incentive, subject to Board approval. 12 paid holidays. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.
We'll output HTML fragment.
We must not include any markdown fences.
Let's craft.
We'll have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
- . We must be careful not to duplicate lines. Ensure we include each bullet once. Let's list them: Essential: 1. Lead standard qualitative research projects including administering survey instruments, focus groups, and interviews. 2. Assist in other research projects including navigating publicly available databases for relevant information and conducting landscape assessments on specific topics. 3. Independently draft reports related to best practices in postsecondary education and workforce development for external consumption. 4. Develop and recommend appropriate research and data management techniques including identifying and resolving incongruities between research requirements and available data. 5. In consultation with research staff, decide on the most efficient and effective technical means for achieving research objective including how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display data. 6. Perform quality control checks on reports generated by the team. 7. Contribute to transcription and analysis of focus groups, manages data, and codes relevant data. 8. Build tables in MS Excel and performs data cleaning. 9. Develop communication tools to present Trellis Strategies to a broad audience base including via social media. 10. Contribute to project teams and small, informal research teams to carry out research objectives. 11. Contribute to recruitment efforts for large-scale research projects, including participant outreach, client communication, and recruitment tracking to support study enrollment goals. 12. Uses AI tools appropriately to support research tasks such as transcription, preliminary coding, and landscape scans, applying professional judgment to review and verify outputs, and adhering to data privacy, confidentiality, and IRB requirements when handling participant data. 13. Participate in training and other learning opportunities to ensure compliance and expand knowledge of company, position, and process. Non-essential: 14. Assist with how to acquire, organize, interpret, and display information. 15. Work under general supervision with moderate latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. 16. Respond to internal and external customer requests for ad hoc reports. 17. Perform all other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 18. Must be available to work flexible hours. 19. Support other functions and responsibilities of the department. 20. Interact with all levels of management as necessary. 21. Contribute to the development of strategic initiatives. Now Requirements: include education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies, physical/mental demands, work environment. We'll list each as
- . Education: - Bachelor’s degree in business administration or social sciences, or related area (required); Graduate degree preferred. Experience: - One (1) year of working with student success research or two (2) years of research in another social science or policy area. - Three (3) years of data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management). Graduate training in business administration or the social sciences may substitute on a year for year basis, for the three (3) years of data and management reporting. - Preferred: Experience cleaning data, building tables in MS Excel, and coding qualitative data. - Experience conducting interviews and writing research papers. - Project management training or experience. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Skilled in utilizing AI-enabled tools and technologies to improve efficiency, enhance work quality and outcomes, and support innovation and continuous process improvement. - Strong communication and writing skills. - Strong analytical and qualitative research skills. - Ability to use qualitative analytical tools such as MAXQDA, Atlas.ti, etc. - Strong MS Office skillset, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. - Data reporting (i.e., written analysis; table and graph creation; and verbal presentations to management). - Knowledge and understanding of issues related to college student success and financial challenges. - Good time management. - Strong attention to detail. - Knowledge of higher education public policy. - Ability to program in a qualitative coding software. Competencies (list): - Action Oriented - Builds Effective Teams - Business Insight - Champion Change - Collaborates - Communicates Effectively - Compliance - Consulting - Cultivating Innovation - Customer Focus - Decision Quality - Demonstrates Self-Awareness - Diversity Focused - Drives Results - Interpersonal Savvy - Organizational Savvy - Plans and Aligns - Relationship management - Resourcefulness - Self-Development - Situational Adaptability - Strategic Mindset Physical and Mental Demands: - Occasionally must move about inside the office. - Repetitive motion. - Regularly operates a computer, phone, and general office equipment. - Regularly required to handle, feel,