Remote Quantitative Education Research Scientist

The Association for Education Finance and Policy; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Vacation & personal leave

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Gibson Consulting Group in Austin, TX is seeking a Quantitative Research Scientist to advance education research and evaluation across school districts, states, and education centers. The role focuses on handling large educational datasets, applying rigorous econometric methods, and delivering actionable results through reports, dashboards, and presentations.

Remote work options are available. The salary range reflects market rates for this role, and the position offers opportunities for

Qualifications

• Advanced Stata programming skills; Python experience is a plus.
• Experience cleaning large datasets and providing sample scripts.
• Experience with statistical/econometric methods used in social science research.
• Familiarity with sound research design.

Responsibilities

• Manage, clean, and analyze large-scale educational datasets with reproducible scripts.
• Write robust code for data prep, analysis, and reporting.
• Assemble panel data, run quality checks, and fit appropriate models.
• Communicate results via reports, briefings, dashboards, and presentations.
• Design evaluation frameworks to measure program impact on outcomes.
• Provide statistical consulting on data usage and methods.
• Contribute to proposals for grants and RFPs.
• Support multi-site data collection and documentation of coding decisions.
• Develop and align research protocols, surveys, and guides.

Skills

Stata

Python

Large datasets

Statistics & econometrics

Research design

Education

PhD or graduate training in social science

Tools

Stata

Python

LaTeX

HTML

Shiny

Dash

Job description

Gibson Consulting Group in Austin, TX is seeking a Quantitative Research Scientist to advance education research and evaluation across school districts, states, and education centers. The role focuses on handling large educational datasets, applying rigorous econometric methods, and delivering actionable results through reports, dashboards, and presentations.

Remote work options are available. The salary range reflects market rates for this role, and the position offers opportunities for