Require good writing skills and experience providing consultation to public or private sector organizations. Experience in providing advice to state or local policy makers is desired. Intermediate statistical expertise is desired, including familiarity with regression analysis and experience with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, or STAT, as is knowledge of current K-12 educational reforms.
Some travel is required.
Provide technical assistance to state and district policy makers and administrators in designing alternative forms of compensation for K-12 teachers. Provide research support, including participate in field interviews with teachers and administrators, assist with the design of large-scale surveys, development of data files, and statistical analysis of responses. Assist in the writing of research proposals on evolving issues to secure federal and private foundation funding, assist the principal investigator in staffing various commissions on teacher compensation. Write up results of research projects for both technical and practitioner audiences and make presentations to policy and scholarly groups on research results. Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request.