SOFWERX is looking to solve difficult warfighter problems by accelerating the delivery of innovative capability and facilitating capability refinement through exploration, experimentation, and assessment of promising technology. This role will contribute to market research efforts to find emerging technologies that would contribute to SOFWERX's goals and projects.
Requirements
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
- Experience working with a variety of STEM efforts
Responsibilities
- Plan, lead, and coordinate team-wide market research efforts by developing and implementing data query and collection strategies, managing a landing webpage, creating collection forms, and administering a database.
- Use simple Excel functions and formulas to perform quantitative analysis on research submissions.
- Conduct market research on USSOCOM areas of interest to find emerging technologies that would contribute to SOFWERX’s goals and projects.
- Evaluate academic publications and technical reports to identify the characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of the science or technology.
- Scout and source experts from academia, industry, and laboratories and consolidate findings into research reports.
- Create Market Research curriculum, facilitate training, and develop new tools, techniques, and practices to optimize the Market Research process.
- Present briefings and presentations to the SOFWERX team.
Other
- MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR A SECURITY CLEARANCE
- Junior or Senior Collegiate Student, with a current GPA of 3.0 or above
- Pursuing a bachelor’s degree related to STEM or Business
- Must be able to work independently or as a member of a team
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Good planning and organizational skills
- A high level of integrity, accuracy, dependability, enthusiasm, and confidentiality
