Academic ConnectJob Summary
Design, plan, and implement software and data services that support and enrich research productivity and reliability. Develop software and data services with researchers to ensure that modern standards of reproducible research are kept.
Position Description
The Senior Data Scientist at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University leads statistical programming, collaborates with Principal Investigators to develop advanced models and analysis tools, develops data architecture and data processing pipelines, works with multiple stakeholders and develops visualizations to communicate key findings to non-technical audiences, and advises projects on state-of-the-art software and data solutions to support the research. CEPR partners with school districts, charter school networks, and state education agencies to bring high quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions.
Job-Specific Responsibilities
- Develops advanced models and performs complex statistical programming to support the research.
- Advises research projects on state-of-the-art technical solutions to analytic and data challenges.
- Translates complex analyses for policy and practitioner audiences and develop visualizations that help people understand key findings and new insights.
- Mentors research analysts on statistical programming and informally supervise the analyst on any tasks that the Senior Data Scientist assigns to them.
- Serves as a resource to the team for computer programming and statistics. Occasionally, group training on specific tools or models.
- Builds internal code design and development guides for future contributors.
- Conducts quality assurance to ensure the reproducibility of analyses, documentation of methods and algorithms, and use of appropriate statistical tests.
- Collaborates with Principal Investigators and Project Directors to develop research plans and statistical analyses.
- Contributes to papers and reports.