Public Sector Survey Research Lead

AlphaX; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov is building a bench of survey research managers for resident, community, customer, and employee surveys for local governments, school systems, and utilities. You would design surveys, run fieldwork, and turn results into plain-language findings for decision makers.

This remote-first consulting role involves authorizing naming on proposals, designing and managing fieldwork, weighting data, and presenting findings to councils and boards.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years leading survey research projects, including public-sector, school, or utility clients.
• Experience with questionnaire design, sampling, and weighting.
• Proficiency with SPSS, Stata, R, Qualtrics, or similar tools.
• Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant.

Responsibilities

• Design questionnaires and sampling plans for resident, customer, and employee surveys.
• Manage multi-mode fieldwork (online, phone, mail, address-based sampling).
• Weight data and calculate margins of error and response rates.
• Analyze results with cross-tabs, benchmarks, and trend comparisons.
• Plan and moderate focus groups and community listening sessions.
• Write reports and dashboards and present findings to councils and boards.
• Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming.

Skills

Survey design

Questionnaire design

Sampling

Weighting

SPSS

Stata

R programming

Qualtrics

Project management

Tools

SPSS

Stata

R

Qualtrics

Job description

AlphaGov is building a bench of survey research managers for resident, community, customer, and employee surveys for local governments, school systems, and utilities. You would design surveys, run fieldwork, and turn results into plain-language findings for decision makers.

This remote-first consulting role involves authorizing naming on proposals, designing and managing fieldwork, weighting data, and presenting findings to councils and boards.