Education Research Associate - Remote Impact & Evaluation

University-Enterprises-In; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 65,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TIAA retirement plan

Vacation time

Sick time

Holidays

Medical & dental benefits

Educational assistance

The WELL membership

Job summary

University Enterprises, Inc. via EdInsights Center seeks a Research Associate to conduct research and evaluation projects across community college initiatives and student success programs.

You will leverage qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, coordinate project components, administer surveys, conduct interviews, analyze data, and prepare reports for dissemination. The role requires strong written and oral communication, experience with statistical software, and collaboration

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public policy/administration, economics, political science, sociology, education, or other field requiring statistical analysis and social science research, or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
• Demonstrated experience with qualitative data collection and analysis methods, such as designing and administering surveys, conducting interviews and focus groups, and coding qualitative data; and/or experience managing, cleaning, and analyzing quantitative data from surveys, administrative records, or other large‑scale education datasets.
• Demonstrated experience with word processing, spreadsheets, internet, and statistical software packages such as Stata, R, SPSS, or SAS.
• Demonstrated experience balancing multiple projects and priorities and meeting competing deadlines.
• Strong technical and public writing skills. Experience authoring/co-authoring research manuscripts.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of educational equity and familiarity with disproportionate impacts for traditionally underserved communities.
• Must pass a background check, which may include fingerprinting.

Responsibilities

• Conducts literature reviews and secondary research, including search, review, synthesis, and write‑up of relevant existing literature/data.
• Contributes to the development and administration of logic models, evaluation plans, and data collection tools, such as surveys and interview protocols, by drafting instruments.
• Administers surveys in Qualtrics.
• Downloads, cleans, manages, and organizes data.
• Collects observational data of client events for evaluation projects.
• Schedules and conducts interviews and focus groups.
• Analyzes and interprets data, including coding qualitative data and statistical analysis of quantitative data.
• Contributes to research protocols and practices; documents existing protocols and practices; updates existing protocols and practices to reflect final decisions made by the team.
• Reads external publications related to postsecondary reform, as relevant to ongoing projects.
• Cross‑trains research assistants and other research associates in areas of established competency.
• Assists in the management of assigned project(s), such as coordinating and scheduling of evaluation activities.
• Uses project management software to coordinate project components and document component progress.
• Presents Senior Research Associate/Manager with periodic oral and written reports on the status of project components.
• Participates in and/or facilitates client and staff meetings and assists in or leads agenda creation and meeting summary.
• Maintains continuous team and client communication for project components, with Senior Research Associate/Manager support.
• Supports the development of a cohesive evaluation strategy inclusive of needs, goals, and concerns of various audiences.
• Participates in center‑wide discussions on equity and center strategic direction.
• Writes and provides feedback on evaluation and research reports.
• Provides direction to, collaborates with, and provides feedback to UX Design Analyst to create visuals for reports.
• Co‑presents findings at meetings and conferences.
• Represents EdInsights at statewide and national meetings of researchers, policymakers, philanthropic leaders, and other similar interest‑holder groups.
• Assists in the development of complex research and evaluation proposals and design.
• Independently designs components of a larger complex project.
• Contributes to proposal and design brainstorming sessions.
• Supports the preparation and submission of research and evaluation grant proposals to foundations and other external grantors.

Skills

Qualitative methods

Quantitative methods

Survey administration

Project coordination

Writing & reporting

Education

Master’s degree in public policy/administration, economics, political science, sociology, education, or related field

Tools

Stata

R

SPSS

SAS

Qualtrics

Job description

University Enterprises, Inc. via EdInsights Center seeks a Research Associate to conduct research and evaluation projects across community college initiatives and student success programs.

You will leverage qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, coordinate project components, administer surveys, conduct interviews, analyze data, and prepare reports for dissemination. The role requires strong written and oral communication, experience with statistical software, and collaboration