Given the complexity and challenge of the methodological problems and needs encountered by the NCES, ESSI requires a creative, flexible, capable, senior-level person to head its statistical efforts. The individual must have extremely sophisticated, broad, and flexible statistical and research design skills and the ability to work responsively with staff of NCES to determine and carry out the agenda for ESSI's statistical work, while building and nurturing a highly-qualified staff with capabilities at multiple levels. The chief statistician will be responsible for building ESSI's relationships with the education research, methodological, and government statistics communities and maintaining successful collaborations with senior statistical staff at NCES, other parts of AIR, and ESSI's constituent organizations. Individuals are sought from academia, other research organizations, federal statistical agencies, or research offices of state or local education agencies. The position is currently open and the timing and commitment can be flexible.
Benefits are generous.
Salary competitively matched to qualifications. The American Institutes for Research is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.