Senior Psychometrician

Job Overview

Job Responsibilities

• Heads technical operational and research projects dealing with early childhood and early literacy assessments.
• Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and complex projects.
• Provides guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work.
• Works autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric examination and provides guidance to less experienced psychometricians.
• Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients, and external boards and panels.
• Accountable for statistical design such as Variance Estimations (weighting), Sample Design, Statistical Modeling, and Psychometrics.
• Ensures quality control of deliverables.
• Designs, develops and documents technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines.
• Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, Psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., R).

Job Requirements

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or related field with an emphasis on quantitative research or Psychometrics.
• Advanced training in Psychometric research and Statistics including Item Response Theory, Scaling and Equating, Computer Adaptive Testing, Sample Design and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
• At least 4 years of professional experience, including with assessment systems, Sampling Theory and Item Response Theory.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer