Research and Evaluation Specialist

Salary & Compensation

• UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit UC Benefit package to discover benefits that start on day one, and UC Total Compensation Estimator to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience writing grant proposals for extramural funding. (Preferred)

• Experience in training local advocates to use data in presentations, and in related problem solving activities with school boards, administrators, teachers' unions and community members. (Preferred)

• Background and experience in writing or contributing to the writing of education research summaries and policy reports, proposals and/or other related documents. (Required)

• Experience translating data findings into web tools and data visualizations. (Required)

• Demonstrated ability to prepare high level presentations for scholars, lawyers, education administrators and policymakers. (Required)

• Ability to work with competing deadlines, manage multiple assignments, meet fixed deadlines, and follow tasks through to completion. (Required)

• Ability and willingness to work as an effective, collegial, contributing member of the project team and work independently to successfully accomplish assigned tasks. (Required)

• Ability to accept delegated work, validate expectations, problem-solve obstacles, and follow-up to completion and/or report status of delegated tasks. (Required)

• Ability and willingness to work directly and collaboratively with multilingual, multiethnic, and/or multiracial education and non-education professionals and laypersons. (Required)

• Excellent skills in oral and written English communication including, as appropriate, skill in writing sections of reports, proposals, and other documents with fluency and precision. (Required)

• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, implement and successfully complete research projects with excellent attention to detail. (Required)

• Demonstrated ability to extract data, merge different data sets, read and review syntax for coding of large data sets, and perform statistical analyses of large state education databases (Required)

• Demonstrated ability to efficiently operate computers and utilize quantitative statistical software (e.g. SPSS, Stata). (Required)

• Strong knowledge of and background in quantitative research methods and analysis, education research, evaluation, and data collection design for quantitative methodologies. (Required)

• Knowledge of K-12 education policy, at the state and federal levels, specifically pertaining to community schooling and issues of inequity in education. (Required)

Education, Licenses, Certifications & Personal Affiliations

• Bachelor's Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training (Required)

• Master's Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training (Preferred)

Special Conditions for Employment

• Background Check: Continued employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background investigation.

• Live Scan Background Check: A Live Scan background check must be completed prior to the start of employment.

• CANRA: The position is designated as a mandatory reporter under CANRA. The employee must sign the "Statement Acknowledging Requirement to Report Child Abuse".
• 5% Domestic Travel - Ability to travel to sites in and outside the state to represent CCS if required by the research or at the request of the supervisor.

Schedule

Union/Policy Covered

Complete Position Description

Apply