Due to internal promotion the Centre for Statistics at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) is looking for a Senior Statistician who can help maintain, and develop, the Centre’s impact internally and externally.
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic statistician, or psychometrician, who is keen to further develop their statistical and psychometric knowledge within an organisation at the centre of educational research in the UK. We are interested in applications from individuals who are capable of carrying out high quality complex statistical analyses, as part of different research teams across the NFER, and who can be involved in a number of statistical and strategic areas, notably RCT methodologies and/or value for money analysis. In addition to a large variety of evaluation work, the successful candidate would also be involved with an exciting portfolio of test development projects. They would report directly to the Head of Statistics.
Salary is in the range of £38,443 – £43,266
Essential qualities:
• be well qualified in statistics, psychometrics or economics, and will have a degree with a high statistical content;
• preferably have a higher degree;
• have at least 3 years relevant work experience;
• be knowledgeable of survey research and/or test development methodologies (both classical and IRT);
• be an experienced user of statistical software, particularly SPSS but including other statistical packages such as R, MPlus and MLwiN;
Desirable qualities:
• knowledge of cost benefit/cost effectiveness analysis;
• experience of working on RCTs;
• an ability to develop and maintain strong client relationships;
• an ability to contribute to dissemination activities.
Further details and a full list of essential and desired qualities can be found at http://www.nfer.ac.uk/about-nfer/vacancies or by e-mailing [log in to unmask]
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