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About the Role
The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center seeks an experienced Senior Research Data Analyst to provide data management and analysis expertise to projects. This role is essential for transforming raw data into research assets, ensuring research validity, resolving complex data challenges, and supporting timely research deliverables. The position provides essential data expertise and rigorous analytic support to a team focused on building evidence for effective and equitable policymaking.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of research questions, study designs, analytic plans, and methodological approaches.
- Manage survey data cleaning and preparation, including guiding data collection and testing, supporting analytic plan development, implementing quality assurance, and constructing clean, validated analytic datasets.
- Contribute to the development, programming, testing, and refinement of surveys.
- Work independently with messy data, resolving data quality issues, missing data, and documentation challenges.
- Acquire, manage, and analyze raw datasets, including administrative and longitudinal data, merging, cleaning, and assessing representativeness.
- Interpret data, select and apply appropriate statistical tests, analyze results, and provide ongoing reports.
- Contribute to and/or lead the production of written products and academic publications translating research results into actionable insights.
- Ensure the methodological quality, validity, and integrity of all research analyses.
- Communicate effectively with key project staff regarding project progress, decisions, and issues.
- Take a leadership role in managing data collection, management, and analysis processes.
- Monitor compliance with data security and data retention policies.
- Coordinate with clients and stakeholders to obtain and manage administrative datasets.
- Contribute to developing and improving processes and procedures.
- Mentor and train staff in survey data cleaning, analytic workflows, and team processes.
- Monitor and supervise students to effectively contribute to projects.
Requirements
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Experience conducting data management, cleaning, and analysis using original survey data.
- Exceptional analytic and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills, strong problem-solving abilities, and attention to detail.
- Strong written communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex concepts clearly and concisely.
- Experience contributing to original research or program evaluation projects, including developing analytic plans, documenting methods, and interpreting findings.
- Ability to quickly learn new topics, multi-task effectively, and produce high-quality work under time constraints.
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing timelines and circumstances.
- Demonstrated understanding and support for key concepts in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.
- Master’s degree with major coursework in the field of assignment, plus at least three years of related experience; Additional related experience may substitute for required education.
- Ability to complete a 2-hour coding test assessing proficiency in coding, analyzing, and interpreting data using R.
Skills
- R
- Stata
- Survey data tools (e.g., REDCap, Qualtrics)
- Research methods
- Survey methodology
- Program evaluation
- Causal inference
- Applied statistics
- Early childhood policy
- Social policy
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid remote
Work Type
- Term appointment (12 months)
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Master's degree
About the Company
- The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center aims to accelerate states’ implementation of evidence-based policies that help all children thrive from the start.
- Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee, on a 330+ acre campus and arboretum dating back to 1873.
- Vanderbilt has been named one of “America’s Best Large Employers” and a top employer in Tennessee and the Nashville metropolitan area by Forbes for several years running.
Equal Opportunity
- Vanderbilt University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment to continue to build a strong and equitable prenatal-to-3 system of care.
- At Vanderbilt University, we are intentional about and assume accountability for fostering advancement and respect for equity, diversity, and inclusion for all students, faculty, and staff.
- Our commitment to diversity makes us who we are. We have created a community that celebrates differences and lets individuality thrive.
- As part of this commitment, we actively value diversity in our workplace and learning environments as we seek to take advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of everyone.
- The diverse voices of Vanderbilt represent an invaluable resource for the University in its efforts to fulfill its mission and strive to be an example of excellence in higher education.