Remote Education Data Scientist – Policy Research

Lehighbar; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Gibson Consulting Group, Inc. in Austin, TX, seeks a Quantitative Research Scientist to conduct education research and evaluate programs for school districts and state agencies. The role focuses on the quantitative work within the research/evaluation portfolio and handling large datasets.

Applicants will design evaluation frameworks, run statistical models, and communicate results through reports and interactive dashboards. A Ph.D.

Qualifications

• Advanced Stata programming and optional Python experience.
• Experience cleaning large, complex education datasets.
• Applied econometric methods in social science research.
• Solid understanding of sound research design.

Responsibilities

• Managing, cleaning, and analyzing large-scale educational datasets.
• Develop reproducible scripts and documentation for analyses.
• Assemble panel data and fit appropriate statistical models.
• Communicate results via reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Support proposal writing for grants and contracts.

Skills

Stata programming

Python with Stata

Big data handling

Statistical consulting

Education

Ph.D. or graduate training in social science

Tools

LaTeX

HTML

Shiny

Dash

Job description

Gibson Consulting Group, Inc. in Austin, TX, seeks a Quantitative Research Scientist to conduct education research and evaluate programs for school districts and state agencies. The role focuses on the quantitative work within the research/evaluation portfolio and handling large datasets.

Applicants will design evaluation frameworks, run statistical models, and communicate results through reports and interactive dashboards. A Ph.D.