Survey Research Manager

AlphaGov; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

AlphaGov is seeking a remote-first survey research manager to design questionnaires, manage multi-mode fieldwork, and analyze results for local governments, school systems, and utilities. You will prepare reports and dashboards and present findings to decision makers.

You will lead 5+ years of public-sector survey projects, design sampling plans, and weight data, using SPSS/Stata/R/Qualtrics. This is a 1099 project-based consultant role with occasional client travel.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years leading survey research projects, with 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

Sampling plans

Fieldwork management

Data weighting

Data analysis

Focus groups

Report writing

Proposal support

Tools

SPSS

Stata

R

Qualtrics

Job description

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits - not speculative staffing banks.

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 statistically sound surveys, run fieldwork, and turn results into plain-language findings for decision makers.

We confirm scope, schedule, and fee with you before any engagement begins.

What you'll do

• 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

Requirements

Required

• At least 5 years leading survey research projects, with 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

Nice to have

• Resident or community satisfaction survey experience (for example National Community Survey style)
• AAPOR membership or formal survey methodology training
• Bilingual survey administration experience