Postdoctoral Fellowship
Company: Society for Learning Analytics Research
Location: Washington
Posted on: November 8, 2024
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Job Description:
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Harvard University: Graduate School of Education
The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for
Education Policy Research at Harvard University, is offering a
one-year research fellowship at the postdoctoral level starting in
the summer of 2021. The fellow will work at a US Federal Agency in
Washington, DC and engage in research projects related to the
department's focus.
Federal research leaders are working to realize the potential of
previously untapped data collected across multiple federal
agencies. To carry out the work of bringing together new data sets
and tools and publishing novel insights, SDP will host the
inaugural cohort of post-doctoral data fellows to work with
federally collected education data and to connect those data across
departments to generate new insights about the health, well-being,
and achievement of students.
The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to work with
Harvard faculty advisors focused on education policy research, such
as Tom Kane and Chris Avery. Additionally, they will engage in
ongoing research projects and will participate in the design of new
studies utilizing federal data sets at a summer summit of faculty,
fellows, and researchers that kicks off the fellowship program.
Finally, fellows will have the opportunity to access Strategic Data
Project training opportunities as desired.
Generally, fellows should expect to spend about 75% of their time
working on ongoing research projects at a US Federal Agency, while
dividing the other 25% between building new collaborations and
developing independent research projects.
Qualifications
Applicants must have completed their PhD in a relevant social
science discipline prior to August 31, 2021 and have academic
research experience in public policy, economics, education,
quantitative methodology, or other similar fields. Applicants must
have experience with large administrative data sets, sampling
methods and primary data collection processes; knowledge of
education policy issues; experience with data processing,
archiving, analysis and report writing, including statistical
analysis; experience with major social science databases and
statistical software packages; excellent communication skills, both
oral and written; attention to detail; the ability to multi-task
and prioritize efforts across simultaneous projects. Applicants
must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
The skills needed for each project will vary and Fellows will match
to projects based on the skills they bring. Some of the high
priority skills include: quantitative research; experience modeling
for predictive analytics and program evaluation; experience with R
and/or Python, and natural language processing; process/clickstream
data analysis; and machine learning (e.g. unsupervised learning,
predictive analysis, automated feature extraction). Candidates with
data science experience are preferred.
Application Instructions
Applicants should submit the following materials no later than May
31, 2021 at 11:59 pm EDT. We will begin reviewing applications on
May 16, 2021.
Applications must include:
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