Remote Qualitative Research Specialist: Data & Insights

Trellis Company in; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Trellis Strategies in Round Rock, TX, seeks a Research Specialist - Qualitative to perform research for client initiatives. You will implement survey instruments, conduct interviews and focus groups, code transcripts, and draft client reports using MS Excel to build databases and analyses.

You will contribute to research briefs and social media outreach, maintain strong time management, and work independently within project teams while ensuring data privacy and IRB compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or social sciences.
• One year of working with student success research or two years of research in another social science or policy area.
• Three years of data reporting (written analysis; table and graph creation; verbal presentations to management).
• Graduate training in business administration or the social sciences may substitute on a year-for-year basis for the three years of data and management reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead qualitative research projects including administering survey instruments, focus groups, and interviews.
• Draft reports related to best practices in postsecondary education and workforce development for external consumption.
• Develop and recommend data management techniques and resolve incongruities between research requirements and available data.
• Develop tables in MS Excel and perform data cleaning.
• Develop communication tools to present Trellis Strategies to a broad audience base including via social media.

Skills

Qualitative research

Data analysis

Excel

Written communication

Time management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration or social sciences

Tools

MAXQDA

Atlas.ti

Job description

Trellis Strategies in Round Rock, TX, seeks a Research Specialist - Qualitative to perform research for client initiatives. You will implement survey instruments, conduct interviews and focus groups, code transcripts, and draft client reports using MS Excel to build databases and analyses.

You will contribute to research briefs and social media outreach, maintain strong time management, and work independently within project teams while ensuring data privacy and IRB compliance.