ATTACHMENT B-2 SEC LABOR CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS.pdf

ATTACHMENT B-2 – SEC LABOR CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS

Office Director Minimum Education –Master’s degree Minimum Experience – 15 years Function Responsibilities – The Officer/Director serves as a director of a research or functional department. The Officer/Directors have expertise in substantive areas as well as research design and management. Officers/Directors may serve as project directors or technical advisors on large and complex projects.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree Minimum Experience – 17 years

Senior researcher Minimum Education – Master’s degree

Minimum Experience – 6 years Function Responsibilities – This position has multiple complex responsibilities -- 1) to direct large and complex projects or several smaller projects with support from other managers and to serve as senior project advisor to more junior staff in the role of project director and 2) to perform various administrative tasks.

Incumbents in this position typically have a national reputation within the field, either through extensive publication or broad experience. This position has significant supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Experience: 8 years

Senior sampling statistician Minimum Education – Doctorate

Minimum Experience –10 Function Responsibilities – This position has several major responsibilities, including to design and select samples for large-scale projects and to serve as sampling statistician, analysis task leader, and/or internal consultant on research design projects as assigned. Project responsibilities may include project direction, task management, consultation on design, methodology, sampling, or analysis, or a role as principal investigator.

This position has project supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education – Master’s degree Minimum Experience –12 years

Senior systems analyst Min Education: PhD Min Experience: 7 years

Equivalent: Masters Degree Plus 12 Years

Serves as an intellectual leader or effective organizer and manager of research. Provides analysis and proposes solutions to complex problems in the field(s) of specialization, with ability to perform in any phase of a project from design to implementation. Has extensive knowledge of concepts, principles and methodologies in one or more fields of specialization. Has demonstrated leadership capability and achieved internal recognition for accomplishments. Prepares project reports. Leads complex team efforts and takes the lead in developing research and analysis agenda.

Researcher Minimum Education – Master’s degree Minimum Experience – 9 years Directs research projects and manages the activities of research assistants, analysts and other staff. The Senior Research Scientist serves as project director with budget responsibilities on complex scientific and or technical components of large projects or a series of smaller projects.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Experience – 11 years

Survey researcher Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree Minimum Experience – 6 years Function Responsibilities – This position has multiple responsibilities -- 1) to direct small to moderately large projects with support from Research Directors or to manage task(s) or components of large and complex projects and 2) to perform various administrative tasks.

This position has significant supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements Substitution:

None

Sampling statistician Minimum Education – Master’s degree

Minimum Experience – 1 year Function Responsibilities – The purpose of this position is to select samples; to carry out weighting and variance estimation; and to provide technical assistance on sample selection, statistical weighting and estimation of variances, and basic research design. This position often has supervisory and budgetary responsibility.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education –Bachelor’s degree Minimum Experience –3 years

Systems analyst Min Education: PhD Min Experience: 4 years Equivalent:

Masters Degree Plus 7 Years

Functions as a fully capable professional, showing good judgment about topics to pursue and selection of appropriate analytical approaches. Designs, initiates, and conducts key tasks or smaller projects independently. An effective contributor to research teams and, in a multidisciplinary setting, shows sufficient independent skill and judgment to represent his or her own field's and/or discipline's insights and methods to the team.

Technical Analyst Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree Minimum Experience – 3 years Typically provides research project support and task leadership on studies of moderate to high complexity.

Responsibilities may include questionnaire design, specialized data collection procedures such as ethnographic, historical, or records synthesis; data editing and management; statistical analysis, report and paper writing.

Research analyst 1 Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree

Function Responsibilities – This position typically provides research project support on studies of low to moderate to high complexity. Responsibilities may include assisting in questionnaire design, specialized data collection procedures such as ethnographic, historical, or records synthesis; data editing and management;

statistical analysis, report and paper writing. This position typically has no budget or supervisory responsibilities.

Survey/sampling specialist Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree

Function Responsibilities – This position typically has project task management or significant production/support responsibilities. On large, complex projects, this position typically has responsibility for one task or aspect of a task, serving as a Central Office Supervisor (supervising field and telephone interviewers, managers, or clerks), handling preparations and monitoring of one data collection effort, or maintaining the survey management system. On small or moderately sized projects, this position typically has broader responsibilities. This position has project supervisory responsibilities.

Survey Director Min Education: Masters Degree Min Experience: 6 years experience in the management of survey research

Work as a member of research teams to develop and oversee the progress of the data collection aspects of policy research projects and oversee the work of survey research staff.

Provides analysis and proposes solutions to complex survey methods or data collection issues, with ability to perform in any phase of a data collection project from design to implementation. Has extensive knowledge of concepts, principles and methodologies of survey research data collection (including best practices for the conduct of qualitative and quantitative data collection). May specialize in one or more areas of research. May act as principal investigator for data collection or survey methods projects.

Has demonstrated leadership capability. Prepares project reports and/or survey methods portion of project reports.

Leads complex team efforts.

Senior programmer Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree

Function Responsibilities – The Survey Programmer assists in the technical design and implementation of NORC questionnaires for automated data capture. The Survey Programmer will have expertise in NORC’s questionnaire design processes and automated tools, including CATI and CAPI authoring tools, related utilities for data analysis and data export. The person will assist in reviews and walk-throughs for questionnaires on survey projects or proposals, and lead implementation on automated questionnaires.

The Survey Programmer will be proficient in the use of questionnaire software and related programming tools. The person will also participate in development, testing, and support of questionnaire development software.

Requirements Substitution: None

Research assistant/ programmer Min Education: Bachelors Min Experience: 1 year

Supports research in one of two support areas Communications or Programming: Communications: helps research staff prepare straightforward documents and presentations. Programming: assists in the development, analysis, documentation, and maintenance of software programs and databases, as assigned.

Survey associate Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree Minimum Experience – 2 years Function Responsibilities – The Assistant Production Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of interviewers, clerks, and, indirectly, supervisors, and for supervising more complex components of a specific study or studies, including maintaining and improving quality standards and service levels; identifying problems and proposing solutions;

performing routine project and production tasks; and ensuring compliance with project and organizational policies and procedures.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education – High School Minimum Experience –3 years

Survey supervisor Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree

Minimum Experience – 2 years Function Responsibilities – The Supervisor II is responsible for overseeing the work of Telephone Interviewers. Supervisors will be handling daily production activities including identifying, troubleshooting, and solving production problems; generating required reports;

monitoring, encouraging and motivating interviewers; and handling administrative issues such as attendance, schedule changes, and performance problems.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education – High School Minimum Experience – 3 years

Field interviewer (on- call) Minimum Education – High school diploma

Minimum Experience – 0 years Function Responsibilities – This position extends across all field activities depending on work flow and specific assignments. These activities include, but are not limited to: pretesting, screening, prompting, interviewing, refusal conversion, retrieval, locating and validation. The incumbent will be required to take direction and follow instructions accurately. The person in this position must demonstrate excellent verbal skills at all times; the interviewer must use good grammar, enunciate their words, read text smoothly, and have the ability to pronounce difficult (i.e. medical) terms. The incumbent may need to have a thorough knowledge of more than one study in the field and their instruments at the same time. Familiarity with a keyboard is desired.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education – High school coursework

Financial Management Minimum Education – Bachelor’s degree

Minimum Experience – None This position is responsible for monitoring costs on moderately large to large projects or providing support to a Senior Financial Analyst on very large and/or complex projects. This position may include some supervisory responsibility.

Requirements Substitution:

Minimum Education – High school diploma.

Minimum Experience – 2 years