COVID 19 Research Analyst (Research Project Specialist-Remote Position)
Company: RAND
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: November 19, 2023
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Job Description:
Job Type: Term (Fixed Term) Job Description RAND seeks highly
motivated individuals across a range of experience levels who have
demonstrated excellent academic performance in challenging
undergraduate programs for the position of Research Project
Specialist (RPS). Successful candidates will work in RAND's
Disaster Management & Resilience Program, which is supporting the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through unprecedented
challenges as they respond to COVID-19. This is a term position
with an end date of April 2nd, 2024, with the possibility of
renewal through April 2nd, 2025. Duties Each RPS will work in
multi-disciplinary, geographically distributed teams to provide
quantitative research support on tasks, which may include data
collection and analysis (e.g., data extraction and merging, summary
statistics and analysis), cost analysis, literature reviews,
writing, preparation of draft documents and presentations, and
coordination of work among project team members. For more
experienced candidates the following duties will apply: Each RPS is
expected to help develop approaches to complex problems, collect
and analyze data, and clearly communicate the results of these
analyses to project leaders. Under limited supervision, successful
candidates will provide an advanced level of research support
including execution of key project tasks (e.g., data collection,
data analysis, tool design, and other analytic tasks). Successful
candidates will be expected to apply a broad range of research
tools, methods, and skills to support complex research activities
and demonstrate some depth of knowledge in substantive (e.g.,
disaster management, healthcare accounting, COVID-19 pandemic
response) and technical (e.g., data analysis, programming,
modeling) areas. Qualifications Applicants should have excellent
research and analysis skills demonstrated in coursework and (if
applicable) internship/work experience, and must be highly
motivated, organized, flexible, and demonstrate a strong commitment
to RAND's core values of quality and objectivity. Key
qualifications include:
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