[Remote] Senior Research Analyst Education Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AccessLex Institute is a nonprofit organization focused on improving access and affordability in legal education. The Senior Research Analyst will provide analytical support for research and data initiatives, contributing to various programs and tools aimed at enhancing legal education's value.
Responsibilities
- Actively contribute to the Company’s research agenda to further empirical understanding of law school access, affordability, academic and bar success, and the value of legal education; assist in implementing tactics associated with the Company’s Strategic Plan
- Assist in the administration and evaluation of the LexScholars Pre-Law and Post-Baccalaureate law school pathway programs, including but not limited to processing program applications, entering applicant and participant data, and maintaining related databases
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods, including but not limited to survey development, in-depth interviews, focus groups, regression modeling, and other statistical techniques
- Produce compelling and easily interpretable tables and graphical displays of statistical results for a variety of audiences
- Organize, structure and clean data to permit for use to perform research and policy analysis
- Advise and assist colleagues and external stakeholders with research design, data analysis, data interpretation, and identifying and navigating higher education data sources
- Design and conduct quality control procedures for data collection, analyses, reports and the Company’s data tools; produce technical reports describing procedures, data collection, and/or research results
- Communicate findings to policy and practitioner audiences in succinct briefs, white papers and reports through cogent prose and graphical modeling
- Present, with approval from supervisor and as needed, at professional conferences; represent the Center at relevant industry conferences and events
- Assist in the development and maintenance of a repository of research evidence and data (e.g., the AccessLex Resource Collections) based on internal and external sources that can support the Company’s research objectives, specifically, and those of legal education more generally
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Passion for advancing access, affordability, and value in legal education
- Ability to self-organize—to manage and set deadlines independently to balance multiple deliverables and ensure their timely completion
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills; ability to anticipate and respond to challenges
- Superior attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- Strong evaluation, mathematical, and analytical skills
- Knowledge (acquired through experience or coursework) of evaluation methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative
- Proficiency in R Studio, STATA, or another statistical program
- Experience translating statistical terms and methodologies to lay audiences
- Experience writing and presenting research reports; ability to write components of technical reports independently
- Proficiency in R Studio
- Bachelor's degree in education, statistics, economics, sociology, political science or related field AND minimum 4 years of related experience in a similar role; OR
- Graduate degree AND minimum 1 year of related experience
- Public speaking and presentation skills
- Knowledge of program evaluation theory and/or methods; experience conducting program evaluation
- Knowledge of higher education or legal education data sources, data definitions and limitations
- Proficiency in NVivo or another qualitative coding software program
- Knowledge of diversity pathway programming
- Experience publishing and presenting original research
- Experience working in higher education
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