Research and Evaluation Specialist 4

Overview

Appointment Type: Full-Time Regular (FTR)

 

Location: Oak Ridge, TN (50% Hybrid)

 

*Salary Range: $104,166.40 - $153,254.40/Yr.

 

PURPOSE: Responsible for providing science-based solutions to customers to facilitate and sustain positive change within their organizations. This includes collaborating with customers to assess, inform, and recommend improvements to their processes, products, and practices. The Research and Evaluation Specialist will:

• Initiate, develop, and manage applied research and program evaluation projects.
• Develop and implement evaluation-related activities including collecting, managing and analyzing data.
• Collaborate with team members to generate new insights and understanding of customer program performance based on data and statistical methods.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to assess trends and develop actionable insights and recommendations for management teams at customer sites, via understanding of the business model along with explanatory and predictive modeling.
• Communicate findings through reports and presentations meant to inform customers’ processes and decisions and contribute to the field of safety culture, organizational leadership, and/or industrial psychology through journal publications and presentations at professional conferences.

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expert – Leads evaluation activities. Develops evaluation designs, criteria, plans, instruments and tools, facilitate IRB and clearances, collect and analyze data, and conducts needs assessments to evaluate end-user needs.

 

• Utilize advanced knowledge of modeling and measuring techniques, mathematics, statistical methods, engineering methods, industrial psychology, and other disciplines to design and administer surveys to support assessment and evaluation work.

 

• Manage large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager.

 

• Coach, review and delegate work to lower-level professionals.

 

• Lead qualitative data collection and analysis activities, to include focus groups and one-on-one interviews.

 

• Report evaluation outcomes and results to databases, customers, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

 

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Psychology, Engineering, Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Behavioral Science, Organizational Leadership, or related field and 8 years of directly related experience. Master's and 6 years of directly related experience preferred. An equivalent combination of education and experience performing duties as described may be substituted for the minimum requirements.

 

• Requires the ability to understand scientific research procedures, standards, and terminology as they apply to statistical analysis, STEM workforce evaluation, worker health programs, and qualitative research.
• Requires working on multiple projects and adapting to changing policies, priorities, and deadlines, and up to 20% travel.
• Requires knowledge, skills, and abilities skill with: 
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • SPSS or SAS statistical software applications
  • RStudio
  • Quantitative and Qualitative research methods
  • Scientific writing

*The candidate’s starting salary will be determined upon hire and ORAU will use salary survey data, internal comparators, and the candidate’s qualifications to determine salary.TOTAL REWARDS

ORAU has a strategic approach to providing total rewards to employees through a fair, equitable, and competitive total compensation package. The goal of our total rewards system is to integrate compensation, benefits, work-life balance, performance, recognition, development, and career opportunities to attract, engage, and retain the talent required to achieve ORAU’s business objectives.  The benefit component of our total rewards program supports business goals by offering the following benefits based on employee eligibility:

• Legally required benefits
• Group Health insurance including: Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision
• Retirement plan contribution matching
• Disability insurance
• Group life insurance
• Travel Accident Insurance
• Section 125 reimbursement accounts
• Other voluntary employee paid benefit and insurance offerings

 

The ORAU total reward package also promotes work-life balance. Mindful of the need for employees to care for themselves and their families, ORAU offers the following additional work-life benefits based on employee eligibility: 

• Telework
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Flexible work schedules or compressed work weeks
• Occupational Health and Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program