RTI International
The Center for Research, Evaluation and Equity in Education (RE3) in RTI’s Education and Workforce Development division at RTI International has an opening for the position of Education Research Recruitment Liaison. The successful candidate will contribute to projects involving school-based data collection, assessment, survey, and evaluation.
This position can be located at our headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (preferred location) or another RTI regional office. Full-time telecommuting is also an available option.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Work assignments will include activities related to district and school recruitment, data collection, evaluation, and technical assistance, with tasks varying by project
- Secure cooperation from states, school districts, schools, and study participants to participate in complex, high-burden research studies
- Use persuasive techniques to avoid refusals, delicately respond to objections, and convert refusals
- Coordinate data collection logistics and schedule data collection activities
- Conduct proactive telephone outreach to recruit school district and school staff
- Contribute text and budget inputs for proposals
- Assist with recruitment, training, and oversight of recruitment and data collection staff
- Utilize tools, reports, and control systems to document, manage, and monitor recruitment and data collection activities and task-specific costs
- Coordinate and conduct site visits and data collection in schools to include student surveys, in-person interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations
- Collect administrative records from schools
- Provide technical support for and assistance with the monitoring of production and quality assurance activities
- Coordinate with programming team to design and provide specifications for control systems and production reports
- Write sections of manuals, progress reports, research applications, and other regular reports
- Work across multiple projects and/or tasks
- Work independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively with teams
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in education, communications, psychology, sociology or other social science with a research component plus at least 1 year of related experience
- Knowledge of the U.S. education system
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to quickly analyze a situation, identify potential difficulties, and recommend solutions
- Excellent relationship-building and persuasion skills via telephone, videoconference, and email communications
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage competing projects and tasks
- Proven ability to work independently and to document status and assignment outcomes in web-based systems in a timely and thorough manner
- Ability to practice diplomacy in working with educators and research partners
- Ability to work independently and with teams
- Demonstrated success in meeting frequent, multiple, and tight deadlines
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Periodic travel and occasional weekend or evening work may be required
- Availability to work a full-time schedule with flexibility to adjust schedules as needed to cover all U.S. time zones
- Willing to complete moderate security background check process for the Department of Education, Position of Trust
- Due to contract requirements, applicants must be a U.S. Citizen to qualify.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience recruiting participants for education research studies is highly desired. Alternatively, similar recruitment experience (e.g., other research studies, college admissions) or experience with field data collection, teaching, fund raising, public relations, direct sales, or customer service would be preferred.
- Prior experience working with states, districts, or schools is highly desirable
- Prior experience assisting with a research study or evaluation
- Experience with developing and conducting a survey
- Experience summarizing survey results using Excel, SAS, or other programs
- Coursework in statistics, research study design, or research methods
- Familiarity with qualitative analysis methods and programs
The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below. Our pay ranges represent national averages and may vary by location as a geographic differential may be applied to some locations within the United States.
RTI considers multiple factors when making an offer including, for example: established salary range, internal budget, business needs, and education and years of work experience possessed by the applicant. Further, salary is merely one element to our offer.
At RTI, we demonstrate our commitment to rewarding individual and team achievement through a total rewards package. This package includes (among other things) a competitive base salary, a generous paid time off policy, merit based annual increases, bonus opportunities and a robust recognition program. Other benefits include a competitive range of insurance plans (including health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability), access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan, paid parental leave for all parents, financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments, financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities, an employee assistance program, and numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance.