Chapin Hall is seeking to solve child and family welfare research problems across state and international child welfare and other social service systems
Requirements
- Experience with R, Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, Power BI and/or other appropriate analytic software programs
- Experience with GitLab software or its equivalent
- Experience with statistical modeling and analyses
- Experience with data visualization techniques
- Experience with collaborative coding and version control
- Experience with cutting edge child welfare and data science methods
- Experience with data analysis and programming
Responsibilities
- Using R, Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, Power BI and/or other appropriate analytic software programs, independently converts, merges and assembles large-scale administrative data that often needs to be cleaned for analysis for multiple projects
- Develops and maintains programming code that transforms administrative data into analyzable formats and/or that can be utilized for data analysis, with a strong emphasis on policy-relevant insights, quality assurance, and transparency
- Collaborative coding: automates existing and emerging processes for importing, documenting, integrating, and updating data and collaborates in coding best practices such as code review and version control with experience using Git software or its equivalent and in leading such efforts across projects
- Performs statistical modeling and analyses
- Leads and participates in discussions regarding study design and methods, including developing study objectives, sampling strategies, and data collection procedures to achieve study objectives
- Utilize cutting edge child welfare and data science methods to answer policy-relevant research questions
- Leads technical discussions with client information technology staff to ensure the right use of client administrative data to provide the most value for our clients
Other
- Travel to and engage in a minimum of two annual 2-day “All Hall Convenings”
- Write sections of research results for funders and publications
- Present research results to external stakeholders and conferences
- Assist with report production activities, including proofing, formatting and creating tables and graphs
- Perform additional duties as assigned
