Workforce Program Evaluation Specialist: Olympia (ORS)

Employment Security Department
Olympia - United States
S: $74,604.00 - $97,782. Annually

As a Workforce Program Evaluation Specialist you will gather, input, prepare and clean raw data to use in analyses, forecasts, and program activities. Your ability to lead staff while defining the scope of research, project goals, objectives, methods and plans will be heavily relied upon. Because your day may include contact with customers, including Workforce Development Councils, Economic Development Councils, legislators, committees, business owners, labor groups, agency management, and others therefore your ability to effectively communicate with diverse groups will be vital.

Some of what your day will include:
Design statistical (e.g., Randomized Control Trials) or data analysis (e.g., quasi-experimental analyses), or analytical projects (e.g., identify the best evaluation method given federal and state legal frameworks).
Research, test, specify and implement appropriate causal-effect evaluation methodologies including, but not limited to, Randomized Controlled Trials, Interrupted Time Series, Propensity Score Matching, Regression Discontinuity, Instrumental Variable Regression, and/or Difference-in-Differences.
Design and develop research methods and procedures, statistical techniques, and econometric models to collect, analyze, estimate, measure, and forecast data, trends, and impacts.
Use statistical software programming languages (for example, Python and R), mathematical models, descriptive and advanced inferential statistical techniques, and economics theory, analyze data and interpret results to produce estimates or projections, or identify economic or employment trends.
Your critical thinking skills and knowledge of economic, employment and labor market information are needed on our team.

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