Job Description
This is a remote position.
About our Client:
Peterson’s is the world’s leading educational services company dedicated to furthering education after high school and beyond. From culinary school to medical school-and everything in-between-Peterson’s helps you discover, prepare for, and fund education.
Headquartered in beautiful Denver, CO, they are a group of inquisitive, passionate, connoisseurs of education. With over 50 full-time editors, educators, developers, data scientists, and instructional designers across the globe, the Peterson's team helps platform users understand, navigate, and ultimately complete the educational path that's right for you.
Job Summary:
Research Associates are expected to handle one major data collection or two minor data collections in a given time period. Each Research Associate functionally reports to the Project Manager that manages the data collection of a given cycle
Responsibilities:
- Assist project manager with any aspect of management of a research project as needed with ability to share responsibility for assigned project tasks
- Participate in development and review of specifications for support programming, including survey preprint, data entry, proof-print, data assembly programs, and web-based data entry forms
- Assist project manager in developing quality assurance procedures; implement and execute quality assurance and data cleansing procedures.
- Develop, document, and execute database queries and reports for monitoring project progress, data quality assurance, and data extract delivery
- Supervise data collection workflow and review edited surveys for quality control.
- Judge data reliability on questionable survey answers and use editorial judgement to use or reject responses
- Assist project manager with the development and testing of online surveys and provide support for survey respondents.
- Participate in acceptance testing of database programs and online surveys
- Assist in coordination and execution of survey distribution
- Log and track surveys during various stages of a project to aid in the assessment of project status and productivity
- Clean data in Peterson’s databases in response to queries identified during editing, by error checking processes, or by the project manager
- Carry out initial and supplementary editing and verifying of various data surveys using standard editing style
- Gather information omitted from initial survey
- Provide persistent effort to acquire mandatory data elements and thoroughly document efforts and results
- Proofread surveys, page proofs, or error reports to ensure accuracy of keyed data and Peterson's databases
Requirements
- Must have an experience with Research particularly in survey projects
- Bachelor of Science in Sociology, communications
- Proficient in using Microsoft Excel and internet savvy (Google)
- Must have Fiber Optic internet with at least 25 Mbps bandwidth
- Must have a backup desktop or laptop with the latest OS
- Must be able to work during US Business Hours
Benefits
WHAT WE OFFER:
✔ Great Place to Work-Certified Company
✔ Premium HMO
✔ Holistic employee experience
✔ Rewards and incentives
✔ Monthly engagement activities
✔ Career advancement opportunities
✔ Paid referral program
✔ Permanent work from home
Work Experience
4-5 years
