Education Research Specialist

About the Position: This position is located at: Department of Defense Education Activity, Department of Defense Education Activity Americas, Virtual School, Quantico, VA Description of the Working Environment: Work is performed in an office setting. The desired applicant will preferably have recent experience (above school level) in research and data analysis.

Develop and maintain large scale databases for DoDEA.

Perform quantitative data analysis tasks (such as moving and combining datasets from different platforms; cleaning, aggregating data, and analyzing data) for DoDEA educational project/program development.

Create, collect, analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative data for DoDEA.

Analyze statistical reports to enable DoDEA leadership to make strategic decisions.

Provide recommendations for improvement to DoDEA leadership based on collected data.

Conduct research and relate it to educational issues.

Combine data in commonly used data software tools (such as Microsoft Excel) for review/fluency.

Verify the integrity of DoDEA data collection (which includes classroom observations, focus groups, interviews, and assessment data).

Perform qualitative data analysis tasks {such as coding and analyzing data in Qualitative Data Analysis software (such as NVivo) for DoDEA educational project/program development.

Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance. Three evaluation procedures are acceptable: a. The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). This website provides a list of current organizations who can perform your evaluation. You must select and work directly with one of these organizations. b. The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education); and c. The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U.S. institution. Graduates of non-accredited institutions may have their undergraduate work validated by admittance to graduate school and completion of a minimum of 5 SH of credit in a regionally accredited graduate college.