The Stanford Center on Early Childhood, an initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, seeks a Data Scientist to oversee the work of a team of analysts, establish and maintain quality standards, review outputs, and ensure research processes are executed with precision, consistency, and scientific rigor for the RAPID Survey Project.
Requirements
- Experience in a quantitative discipline such as economics, finance, statistics or engineering.
- Substantial experience with MS Office and analytical programs.
- Advanced methodological, statistical, and analytic skills
- Experience with survey research
- Flexible and creative thinking about data analysis
- Experience working with large data sets
Responsibilities
- Lead and own organization-wide data initiatives (e.g. models, frameworks, platforms, dashboards).
- Prioritize and extract data from a variety of sources such as notes, survey results, medical reports, and laboratory data, and maintain its accuracy and completeness.
- Determine additional data collection and reporting requirements. Design and customize reports based upon data in the database. Oversee and monitor compliance with processes that ensure high-quality data.
- Use system reports and analyses to identify potentially problematic data, make corrections, and eliminate root cause for data problems or justify solutions to be implemented by others.
- Create complex charts and databases, perform statistical analyses, and develop graphs and tables for publication and presentation.
- Serve as a resource for non-routine inquiries such as requests for statistics or surveys.
- Provide documentation based on audit and reporting criteria to investigators and research staff.
Other
- This position is a 1-year fixed term appointment that may be renewed based on performance and funding.
- This position is eligible for a remote work agreement and travel is required for convenings and events.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Guide, coach and mentor a high performing team of analysts.
- Ability to direct the work of others, for jobs requiring supervision.
