Senior Researcher- Human Services (Remote Eligible)
Mathematica · Ann Arbor, MI · 1 mo ago
Analyst$125k–$160k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. The posting includes: About Mathematica (company description) maybe not needed as heading? The instruction: "use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. The posting includes: About Mathematica (company description) maybe not needed as heading? The instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can have headings like About the role (maybe summarizing role description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe required qualifications), Qualifications (maybe preferred?), Skills (maybe communication etc), Benefits (they mention competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package, employee owned, ESOP, coworking spaces). Pay: they give anticipated base salary $125,000-$160,000. Schedule: not mentioned, so we should not include Schedule section. Also we should not repeat job title as heading. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent. Remove boilerplate like EEO, security clearance, etc. Also remove application instructions (cover letter, CV, writing sample must be submitted). Also remove navigation/legal etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to decide what goes where.
We have sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief paragraph summarizing the role: senior researcher in Human Services department focusing on TANF, employment programs, performance measurement, leading projects, etc.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (primary duties and responsibilities, duties may include). Use - .
- Requirements: required qualifications (PhD/Masters with 10 years experience, substantive expertise, experience developing performance measures, leading research, quantitative skills, communication, willingness to learn AI, teamwork). Use
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- Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications (experience providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients, experience with large-scale admin data sets). Could also be separate but we can combine? The instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Required and Preferred into Qualifications? But they gave separate headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could map: Requirements = required qualifications; Qualifications = preferred qualifications; Skills = communication, teamwork, willingness to learn new tech, etc. However we need to avoid filler.
Let's extract:
Company description: Mathematica applies expertise... offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package, advantages of being 100% employee owned, ESOP holdings, independent employee-owned firm, coworking spaces. This could go under Benefits section.
Benefits: competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package, employee stock ownership (ESOP) financial benefits, coworking spaces where available. Also maybe "Read more about our benefits here: Benefits at a Glance." We'll keep that as a link? Probably just text.
Pay: anticipated base salary $125,000-$160,000.
Schedule: none.
Now responsibilities: list from "Primary Duties And Responsibilities" and "Duties May Include". We'll combine.
Let's extract bullet points:
From Primary Duties And Responsibilities paragraph:
- Leading and supporting project teams within the department and across the company in the planning and execution of projects for clients such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state and local agencies, and Foundations and nonprofits.
- Role primarily focused on programs designed to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Leading, conducting, and advising research, monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.
- Leading, designing, and implementing program evaluations and other research studies.
- Overseeing or providing technical assistance focused on evaluation, performance measurement, and program improvement to organizations serving families, youth, and adults.
- Advising clients on strategy and policy.
- Linking and using data to answer complex policy-relevant questions.
- Identifying proactive business development opportunities and responding to federal and non-federal requests for proposals.
- Type of work includes activities such as:
- Evaluating TANF policies, programs, and pilots and providing technical assistance to federal, state, and local agencies implementing TANF and related employment and training initiatives.
- Building evidence on effective strategies to help parents and other adults in families with low incomes obtain and sustain employment, increase earnings, advance in careers, and achieve greater economic stability.
- Developing, refining, validating, and using performance measures to assess program implementation, service delivery, participant engagement, employment and earnings outcomes, and continuous improvement.
- Designing studies and evaluating outcomes for programs that are focused on improving children, youth, couples, and families well-being and stability.
- Providing evaluation technical assistance to help grantees maintain high-quality impact and descriptive study designs and develop clear, and specific performance measures.
- Conducting systematic reviews to determine the effectiveness of programs across areas such as home visiting, education, and teen pregnancy prevention.
- Designing and implementing studies of early care and education, including Head Start and Child Care.
- Enhancing and supporting the data analytic capacity of state child welfare and Medicaid agencies to improve the delivery of services.
From Duties May Include:
- Leading multidisciplinary teams to implement research and evaluation studies and conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Engaging in proactive business development and responding to requests for proposals from a range of federal and other clients, particularly for work related to TANF, employment and training, economic mobility, and performance measurement.
- Overseeing and conducting monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, including developing performance measurement frameworks and using performance data to support accountability and program improvement; and providing leadership, support, and mentorship in the successful completion of tasks.
- Leading technical assistance to TANF agencies and other programs serving families with low incomes to build evaluation capacity; develop and use clear, feasible, and meaningful performance measures; use data; support continuous quality improvement; and engage in rapid-cycle evaluation.
- Learning and applying new methods, tools, and technologies, including AI-enabled tools, data visualization platforms, and emerging analytic approaches.
- Designing rigorous mixed-methods evaluations, including primary and secondary data collection.
- Assessing the strength of study designs and summarizing large and diverse sets of existing research through systematic evidence reviews and meta-analyses.
- Applying innovative research approaches and advanced statistical methods to answer policy-relevant questions.
- Working with data scientists to link and analyze administrative data, including data used to calculate performance measures and monitor service delivery and outcomes.
- Guiding program staff and policymakers in the use of evidence to make decisions about program selection and adaptation.
- Synthesizing and presenting data in accessible formats for a variety of audiences, including writing briefs, reports, blogs, and articles; and developing interactive data dashboard and visualizations.
We can combine duplicates.
Now Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. or Masters with equivalent experience in public policy, social work, sociology, psychology, education, economics, statistics, data science/data analytics, demography, or a related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Substantive expertise in one or more human services policy areas. Candidates with experience in TANF and/or employment and training programs serving families with low incomes will be prioritized.
- Experience developing and using performance measures or performance measurement frameworks, including defining indicators, assessing data quality and feasibility, monitoring implementation and outcomes, and translating results into actionable information for program leaders.
- Experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; and delegating and supporting project workflows.
- Candidates with evidence of strong quantitative research skills will be prioritized. This includes experience with research design and analysis of primary, secondary, administrative, or survey data; current knowledge of the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse evidence standards; mixed-methods experience is also valued.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to translate complex research methods and findings for a practitioner and policy audience.
- Willingness to learn and apply new techniques or technology, including AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience directly providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients.
- Experience with, or knowledge of, large-scale federal and/or other administrative data sets.
Skills: maybe we can include communication, teamwork, willingness to learn new tech, quantitative skills. But those are already in required qualifications. Could make Skills section for things like communication, teamwork, adaptability, etc. However to avoid duplication, maybe we just have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications, and skip Skills. But the instruction says we can use those headings if we have content. We have content for Skills: excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to translate complex research, willingness to learn new techniques, ability to work in multidisciplinary teams. Those are already in Required Qualifications. Could move them to Skills section and keep Required Qualifications more focused on education/experience. But we must preserve all info; duplication is okay? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate same content in multiple sections. So we need to decide where each piece goes uniquely.
Let's allocate:
- About the role: brief paragraph summarizing role (maybe from first paragraph after "Primary Duties And Responsibilities"? Actually we can write a summary: Mathematica seeks senior researchers in Human Services department with expertise in TANF, employment programs, performance measurement, leading projects, etc.)
- Responsibilities: list of duties (as above).
- Requirements: education/experience baseline: PhD/Masters + 10 years experience, substantive expertise in human services policy areas (TANF/employment training prioritized), experience developing/using performance measures, experience leading research/evaluation activities, mentoring staff, delegating workflows.
- Qualifications: preferred qualifications: experience providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients, experience with large-scale admin data sets.
- Skills: excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to translate complex research for practitioner/policy audience, willingness to learn and apply new techniques/technology including AI, demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly, strong quantitative research skills (research design/analysis, knowledge of Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse, mixed-methods). However some of these overlap with requirements. But we can treat "strong quantitative research skills" as a skill. The requirement list includes "Candidates with evidence of strong quantitative research skills will be prioritized." That's a qualification/skill. We could put it under Skills.
We need to avoid duplication: If we put "experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; delegating workflows" under Requirements, we shouldn't repeat under Skills.
Let's define:
Requirements (hard minimums):
- Ph.D. or Masters with equivalent experience in relevant field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Substantive expertise in one or more human services policy areas (TANF and/or employment and training programs serving families with low incomes prioritized).
- Experience developing and using performance measures or performance measurement frameworks.
- Experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; delegating and supporting project workflows.
Qualifications (preferred):
- Experience directly providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients.
- Experience with, or knowledge of, large-scale federal and/or other administrative data sets.
Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to translate complex research methods and findings for practitioner and policy audience.
- Willingness to learn and apply new techniques or technology, including AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly.
- Strong quantitative research skills: experience with research design and analysis of primary, secondary, administrative, or survey data; current knowledge of the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse evidence standards; mixed-methods experience valued.
Benefits:
- Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package.
- 100% employee owned; ESOP holdings that increase with company growth.
- Coworking spaces available for remote employees to meet co-workers.
Pay:
- Anticipated base salary range: $125,000 – $160,000.
We should not include Schedule.
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- . Ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO, security clearance, background check, etc. Also remove lines about cover letter, CV, writing sample submission (application instructions). Also remove "Read more about our benefits here: Benefits at a
- .
- Requirements: required qualifications (PhD/Masters with 10 years experience, substantive expertise, experience developing performance measures, leading research, quantitative skills, communication, willingness to learn AI, teamwork). Use
- .
- Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications (experience providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients, experience with large-scale admin data sets). Could also be separate but we can combine? The instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Required and Preferred into Qualifications? But they gave separate headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could map: Requirements = required qualifications; Qualifications = preferred qualifications; Skills = communication, teamwork, willingness to learn new tech, etc. However we need to avoid filler.
Let's extract:
Company description: Mathematica applies expertise... offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package, advantages of being 100% employee owned, ESOP holdings, independent employee-owned firm, coworking spaces. This could go under Benefits section.
Benefits: competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package, employee stock ownership (ESOP) financial benefits, coworking spaces where available. Also maybe "Read more about our benefits here: Benefits at a Glance." We'll keep that as a link? Probably just text.
Pay: anticipated base salary $125,000-$160,000.
Schedule: none.
Now responsibilities: list from "Primary Duties And Responsibilities" and "Duties May Include". We'll combine.
Let's extract bullet points:
From Primary Duties And Responsibilities paragraph:
- Leading and supporting project teams within the department and across the company in the planning and execution of projects for clients such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state and local agencies, and Foundations and nonprofits.
- Role primarily focused on programs designed to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Leading, conducting, and advising research, monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.
- Leading, designing, and implementing program evaluations and other research studies.
- Overseeing or providing technical assistance focused on evaluation, performance measurement, and program improvement to organizations serving families, youth, and adults.
- Advising clients on strategy and policy.
- Linking and using data to answer complex policy-relevant questions.
- Identifying proactive business development opportunities and responding to federal and non-federal requests for proposals.
- Type of work includes activities such as:
- Evaluating TANF policies, programs, and pilots and providing technical assistance to federal, state, and local agencies implementing TANF and related employment and training initiatives.
- Building evidence on effective strategies to help parents and other adults in families with low incomes obtain and sustain employment, increase earnings, advance in careers, and achieve greater economic stability.
- Developing, refining, validating, and using performance measures to assess program implementation, service delivery, participant engagement, employment and earnings outcomes, and continuous improvement.
- Designing studies and evaluating outcomes for programs that are focused on improving children, youth, couples, and families well-being and stability.
- Providing evaluation technical assistance to help grantees maintain high-quality impact and descriptive study designs and develop clear, and specific performance measures.
- Conducting systematic reviews to determine the effectiveness of programs across areas such as home visiting, education, and teen pregnancy prevention.
- Designing and implementing studies of early care and education, including Head Start and Child Care.
- Enhancing and supporting the data analytic capacity of state child welfare and Medicaid agencies to improve the delivery of services.
From Duties May Include:
- Leading multidisciplinary teams to implement research and evaluation studies and conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Engaging in proactive business development and responding to requests for proposals from a range of federal and other clients, particularly for work related to TANF, employment and training, economic mobility, and performance measurement.
- Overseeing and conducting monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, including developing performance measurement frameworks and using performance data to support accountability and program improvement; and providing leadership, support, and mentorship in the successful completion of tasks.
- Leading technical assistance to TANF agencies and other programs serving families with low incomes to build evaluation capacity; develop and use clear, feasible, and meaningful performance measures; use data; support continuous quality improvement; and engage in rapid-cycle evaluation.
- Learning and applying new methods, tools, and technologies, including AI-enabled tools, data visualization platforms, and emerging analytic approaches.
- Designing rigorous mixed-methods evaluations, including primary and secondary data collection.
- Assessing the strength of study designs and summarizing large and diverse sets of existing research through systematic evidence reviews and meta-analyses.
- Applying innovative research approaches and advanced statistical methods to answer policy-relevant questions.
- Working with data scientists to link and analyze administrative data, including data used to calculate performance measures and monitor service delivery and outcomes.
- Guiding program staff and policymakers in the use of evidence to make decisions about program selection and adaptation.
- Synthesizing and presenting data in accessible formats for a variety of audiences, including writing briefs, reports, blogs, and articles; and developing interactive data dashboard and visualizations.
We can combine duplicates.
Now Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. or Masters with equivalent experience in public policy, social work, sociology, psychology, education, economics, statistics, data science/data analytics, demography, or a related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Substantive expertise in one or more human services policy areas. Candidates with experience in TANF and/or employment and training programs serving families with low incomes will be prioritized.
- Experience developing and using performance measures or performance measurement frameworks, including defining indicators, assessing data quality and feasibility, monitoring implementation and outcomes, and translating results into actionable information for program leaders.
- Experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; and delegating and supporting project workflows.
- Candidates with evidence of strong quantitative research skills will be prioritized. This includes experience with research design and analysis of primary, secondary, administrative, or survey data; current knowledge of the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse evidence standards; mixed-methods experience is also valued.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to translate complex research methods and findings for a practitioner and policy audience.
- Willingness to learn and apply new techniques or technology, including AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience directly providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients.
- Experience with, or knowledge of, large-scale federal and/or other administrative data sets.
Skills: maybe we can include communication, teamwork, willingness to learn new tech, quantitative skills. But those are already in required qualifications. Could make Skills section for things like communication, teamwork, adaptability, etc. However to avoid duplication, maybe we just have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications, and skip Skills. But the instruction says we can use those headings if we have content. We have content for Skills: excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to translate complex research, willingness to learn new techniques, ability to work in multidisciplinary teams. Those are already in Required Qualifications. Could move them to Skills section and keep Required Qualifications more focused on education/experience. But we must preserve all info; duplication is okay? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate same content in multiple sections. So we need to decide where each piece goes uniquely.
Let's allocate:
- About the role: brief paragraph summarizing role (maybe from first paragraph after "Primary Duties And Responsibilities"? Actually we can write a summary: Mathematica seeks senior researchers in Human Services department with expertise in TANF, employment programs, performance measurement, leading projects, etc.)
- Responsibilities: list of duties (as above).
- Requirements: education/experience baseline: PhD/Masters + 10 years experience, substantive expertise in human services policy areas (TANF/employment training prioritized), experience developing/using performance measures, experience leading research/evaluation activities, mentoring staff, delegating workflows.
- Qualifications: preferred qualifications: experience providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients, experience with large-scale admin data sets.
- Skills: excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to translate complex research for practitioner/policy audience, willingness to learn and apply new techniques/technology including AI, demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly, strong quantitative research skills (research design/analysis, knowledge of Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse, mixed-methods). However some of these overlap with requirements. But we can treat "strong quantitative research skills" as a skill. The requirement list includes "Candidates with evidence of strong quantitative research skills will be prioritized." That's a qualification/skill. We could put it under Skills.
We need to avoid duplication: If we put "experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; delegating workflows" under Requirements, we shouldn't repeat under Skills.
Let's define:
Requirements (hard minimums):
- Ph.D. or Masters with equivalent experience in relevant field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Substantive expertise in one or more human services policy areas (TANF and/or employment and training programs serving families with low incomes prioritized).
- Experience developing and using performance measures or performance measurement frameworks.
- Experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; delegating and supporting project workflows.
Qualifications (preferred):
- Experience directly providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients.
- Experience with, or knowledge of, large-scale federal and/or other administrative data sets.
Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to translate complex research methods and findings for practitioner and policy audience.
- Willingness to learn and apply new techniques or technology, including AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly.
- Strong quantitative research skills: experience with research design and analysis of primary, secondary, administrative, or survey data; current knowledge of the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse evidence standards; mixed-methods experience valued.
Benefits:
- Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package.
- 100% employee owned; ESOP holdings that increase with company growth.
- Coworking spaces available for remote employees to meet co-workers.
Pay:
- Anticipated base salary range: $125,000 – $160,000.
We should not include Schedule.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with
headings and
or
- . Ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO, security clearance, background check, etc. Also remove lines about cover letter, CV, writing sample submission (application instructions). Also remove "Read more about our benefits here: Benefits at a
- .
- Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications (experience providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients, experience with large-scale admin data sets). Could also be separate but we can combine? The instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Required and Preferred into Qualifications? But they gave separate headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could map: Requirements = required qualifications; Qualifications = preferred qualifications; Skills = communication, teamwork, willingness to learn new tech, etc. However we need to avoid filler.
Let's extract:
Company description: Mathematica applies expertise... offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package, advantages of being 100% employee owned, ESOP holdings, independent employee-owned firm, coworking spaces. This could go under Benefits section.
Benefits: competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits package, employee stock ownership (ESOP) financial benefits, coworking spaces where available. Also maybe "Read more about our benefits here: Benefits at a Glance." We'll keep that as a link? Probably just text.
Pay: anticipated base salary $125,000-$160,000.
Schedule: none.
Now responsibilities: list from "Primary Duties And Responsibilities" and "Duties May Include". We'll combine.
Let's extract bullet points:
From Primary Duties And Responsibilities paragraph:
- Leading and supporting project teams within the department and across the company in the planning and execution of projects for clients such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state and local agencies, and Foundations and nonprofits.
- Role primarily focused on programs designed to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Leading, conducting, and advising research, monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.
- Leading, designing, and implementing program evaluations and other research studies.
- Overseeing or providing technical assistance focused on evaluation, performance measurement, and program improvement to organizations serving families, youth, and adults.
- Advising clients on strategy and policy.
- Linking and using data to answer complex policy-relevant questions.
- Identifying proactive business development opportunities and responding to federal and non-federal requests for proposals.
- Type of work includes activities such as:
- Evaluating TANF policies, programs, and pilots and providing technical assistance to federal, state, and local agencies implementing TANF and related employment and training initiatives.
- Building evidence on effective strategies to help parents and other adults in families with low incomes obtain and sustain employment, increase earnings, advance in careers, and achieve greater economic stability.
- Developing, refining, validating, and using performance measures to assess program implementation, service delivery, participant engagement, employment and earnings outcomes, and continuous improvement.
- Designing studies and evaluating outcomes for programs that are focused on improving children, youth, couples, and families well-being and stability.
- Providing evaluation technical assistance to help grantees maintain high-quality impact and descriptive study designs and develop clear, and specific performance measures.
- Conducting systematic reviews to determine the effectiveness of programs across areas such as home visiting, education, and teen pregnancy prevention.
- Designing and implementing studies of early care and education, including Head Start and Child Care.
- Enhancing and supporting the data analytic capacity of state child welfare and Medicaid agencies to improve the delivery of services.
From Duties May Include:
- Leading multidisciplinary teams to implement research and evaluation studies and conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Engaging in proactive business development and responding to requests for proposals from a range of federal and other clients, particularly for work related to TANF, employment and training, economic mobility, and performance measurement.
- Overseeing and conducting monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, including developing performance measurement frameworks and using performance data to support accountability and program improvement; and providing leadership, support, and mentorship in the successful completion of tasks.
- Leading technical assistance to TANF agencies and other programs serving families with low incomes to build evaluation capacity; develop and use clear, feasible, and meaningful performance measures; use data; support continuous quality improvement; and engage in rapid-cycle evaluation.
- Learning and applying new methods, tools, and technologies, including AI-enabled tools, data visualization platforms, and emerging analytic approaches.
- Designing rigorous mixed-methods evaluations, including primary and secondary data collection.
- Assessing the strength of study designs and summarizing large and diverse sets of existing research through systematic evidence reviews and meta-analyses.
- Applying innovative research approaches and advanced statistical methods to answer policy-relevant questions.
- Working with data scientists to link and analyze administrative data, including data used to calculate performance measures and monitor service delivery and outcomes.
- Guiding program staff and policymakers in the use of evidence to make decisions about program selection and adaptation.
- Synthesizing and presenting data in accessible formats for a variety of audiences, including writing briefs, reports, blogs, and articles; and developing interactive data dashboard and visualizations.
We can combine duplicates.
Now Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. or Masters with equivalent experience in public policy, social work, sociology, psychology, education, economics, statistics, data science/data analytics, demography, or a related field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Substantive expertise in one or more human services policy areas. Candidates with experience in TANF and/or employment and training programs serving families with low incomes will be prioritized.
- Experience developing and using performance measures or performance measurement frameworks, including defining indicators, assessing data quality and feasibility, monitoring implementation and outcomes, and translating results into actionable information for program leaders.
- Experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; and delegating and supporting project workflows.
- Candidates with evidence of strong quantitative research skills will be prioritized. This includes experience with research design and analysis of primary, secondary, administrative, or survey data; current knowledge of the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse evidence standards; mixed-methods experience is also valued.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to translate complex research methods and findings for a practitioner and policy audience.
- Willingness to learn and apply new techniques or technology, including AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience directly providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients.
- Experience with, or knowledge of, large-scale federal and/or other administrative data sets.
Skills: maybe we can include communication, teamwork, willingness to learn new tech, quantitative skills. But those are already in required qualifications. Could make Skills section for things like communication, teamwork, adaptability, etc. However to avoid duplication, maybe we just have Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications, and skip Skills. But the instruction says we can use those headings if we have content. We have content for Skills: excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to translate complex research, willingness to learn new techniques, ability to work in multidisciplinary teams. Those are already in Required Qualifications. Could move them to Skills section and keep Required Qualifications more focused on education/experience. But we must preserve all info; duplication is okay? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate same content in multiple sections. So we need to decide where each piece goes uniquely.
Let's allocate:
- About the role: brief paragraph summarizing role (maybe from first paragraph after "Primary Duties And Responsibilities"? Actually we can write a summary: Mathematica seeks senior researchers in Human Services department with expertise in TANF, employment programs, performance measurement, leading projects, etc.)
- Responsibilities: list of duties (as above).
- Requirements: education/experience baseline: PhD/Masters + 10 years experience, substantive expertise in human services policy areas (TANF/employment training prioritized), experience developing/using performance measures, experience leading research/evaluation activities, mentoring staff, delegating workflows.
- Qualifications: preferred qualifications: experience providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients, experience with large-scale admin data sets.
- Skills: excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to translate complex research for practitioner/policy audience, willingness to learn and apply new techniques/technology including AI, demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly, strong quantitative research skills (research design/analysis, knowledge of Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse, mixed-methods). However some of these overlap with requirements. But we can treat "strong quantitative research skills" as a skill. The requirement list includes "Candidates with evidence of strong quantitative research skills will be prioritized." That's a qualification/skill. We could put it under Skills.
We need to avoid duplication: If we put "experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; delegating workflows" under Requirements, we shouldn't repeat under Skills.
Let's define:
Requirements (hard minimums):
- Ph.D. or Masters with equivalent experience in relevant field and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Substantive expertise in one or more human services policy areas (TANF and/or employment and training programs serving families with low incomes prioritized).
- Experience developing and using performance measures or performance measurement frameworks.
- Experience leading research and evaluation activities; mentoring staff; delegating and supporting project workflows.
Qualifications (preferred):
- Experience directly providing evaluation technical assistance to federal grant recipients.
- Experience with, or knowledge of, large-scale federal and/or other administrative data sets.
Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to translate complex research methods and findings for practitioner and policy audience.
- Willingness to learn and apply new techniques or technology, including AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams and contribute flexibly.
- Strong quantitative research skills: experience with research design and analysis of primary, secondary, administrative, or survey data; current knowledge of the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse evidence standards; mixed-methods experience valued.
Benefits:
- Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits package.
- 100% employee owned; ESOP holdings that increase with company growth.
- Coworking spaces available for remote employees to meet co-workers.
Pay:
- Anticipated base salary range: $125,000 – $160,000.
We should not include Schedule.
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