Analytic Objectivity and Process Survey Support Specialist

Peraton; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO

Bonus plan eligibility

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a qualified professional to support national security survey initiatives requiring TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. The role emphasizes designing, testing, and administering surveys, analyzing results, and preparing tailored briefings for IC elements and senior leadership.

Expertise in LimeSurvey, Tableau, Excel, and SPSS is essential. Responsibilities include guiding survey methodology, ensuring accessibility, consolidating data, and producing visualization-based findings to

Qualifications

• TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Typically requires BS degree and 8–12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6–10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Expertise in survey tools and software (e.g., LimeSurvey).
• Expertise with survey data analysis methodologies and tools (Tableau, Microsoft Excel, IBM SPSS), quantitative methods, and data visualization techniques.
• Experience in providing advisement on intelligence products and processes.

Responsibilities

• Recommend survey design, testing, and administration across multiple platforms.
• Assist customers in identifying suitable survey tools on various platforms.
• Offer expert support in methodological, technological, and ethical aspects (e.g., ensuring neutrality, precision, and repeatability of measures; conducting cost-benefit analyses of survey tools; and maintaining respondent anonymity).
• Ensure accessibility and accuracy of surveys by resolving technical issues pre-launch.
• Manage survey administration and monitor and resolve all technical issues, including accessibility problems, across platforms during the survey period.
• Consolidate data and provide integrated data analysis of survey results.
• Compile and organize element-specific free text responses and run AI/LLM tools with multiple prompts to confirm human review of the free text comments.
• Develop and present survey findings through appropriate visualization techniques and recommend presentation formats (e.g., scatter charts, donut charts, stacked column charts) to effectively communicate findings to senior management.
• Develop customized briefing materials and presentations featuring aggregate data, element specific data, and content for key stakeholders.

Skills

Survey methodology

Data visualization

Analytic advisory

Survey data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Tableau

Microsoft Excel

IBM SPSS

LimeSurvey

Job description

Basic Qualifications:

• Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with Polygraph.
• Typically requires BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience. An additional four years of experiencecan be accepted in lieu of a BA/BS degree.
• Expertise in survey tools and software (e.g., LimeSurvey)
• Expertise with survey data analysis methodologies and tools (Tableau, Microsoft Excel, IBM SPSS), quantitative methods, and data visualization techniques.
• Experience in providing advisement on intelligence products and processes.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Our customer requires support to evaluate adherence to Intelligence Community (IC) analytic standards in intelligence products, practices, and processes. This support includes designing, testing, and administering surveys; collecting, organizing, analyzing, and presenting survey data; and preparing tailored briefings to assist in assessing IC elements, Combatant Commands, and other analytic entities' compliance with analytic standards.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Recommend survey design, testing, and administration across multiple platforms.
• Assist customers in identifying suitable survey tools on various platforms.
• Offer expert support in methodological, technological, and ethical aspects (e.g., ensuringneutrality, precision, and repeatability of measures; conducting cost-benefit analyses of survey tools; and maintaining respondent anonymity).
• Ensure accessibility and accuracy of surveys by resolving technical issues pre-launch.
• Manage survey administration and monitor and resolve all technical issues, including accessibility problems, across platforms during the survey period.
• Consolidate data and provide integrated data analysis of survey results.
• Compile and organize element-specific free text responses and run AI/LLM tools with multiple prompts to confirm human review of the free text comments.
• Develop and present survey findings through appropriate visualization techniques and recommend presentation formats (e.g., scatter charts, donut charts, stacked column charts) to effectively communicate findings to senior management.
• Develop customized briefing materials and presentations featuring aggregate data, element specific data, and content for key stakeholders.