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| Posted by: | Jon A. Krosnick |
| Title/Position: | Professor |
| School/Organization: | Stanford University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | January 15th, 2009 |
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Job Opportunity: Social scientist to join the staff of the American National Election Studies (ANES) at Stanford University.
We are seeking a social scientist to join the team carrying out the American National Election Studies (ANES) surveys.
The ANES is the best-known and most widely cited ongoing study of how Americans participate in elections, form attitudes, make political choices, and are influenced by campaigns. Since 1948, the ANES has interviewed tens of thousands of Americans in national surveys of representative samples and has equipped scholars with data to publish more than 5,000 books, journal articles, and conference papers.
ANES is funded by the National Science Foundation, with one of the largest grants in the social sciences, to generate huge datasets that are distributed free to all interested researchers inside and outside of academia.
ANES is a partnership between Stanford University and the University of Michigan. Our major projects include two major data collection efforts: (1) representative national samples of American adults have been providing data via the Internet each month since January 2008 and will continue through mid-2009, and (2) a large representative national sample of American adults was interviewed face-to-face in their homes before the 2008 election for over an hour and then were reinterviewed after the election for over an hour.
To learn more about the ANES, visit www.electionstudies.org.
We are seeking a researcher to join our staff and to contribute to all aspects of running the ANES. We do data analysis and manuscript writing for publication. We design questionnaires. We receive and evaluate proposals from researchers (mostly professors and graduate students) suggesting particular research agendas to be pursued in the questionnaires, and we evaluate those proposals and provide feedback to the proposers, sometimes requesting proposal revisions. We test the functioning of questionnaires that will be administered via computers and orally to assure that they are effective measurement tools. We write study documentation and provide support to our large community of data users. And we edit data files, analyze data, conduct methodological research, supervise data collection firms, run a web site, manage a budget, and conduct administrative tasks, all for the purpose of advancing the scientific study of public opinion and political behavior.
Our new staff member will accomplish this work collaboratively with the study's Principal Investigators -- Jon Krosnick at Stanford and Arthur Lupia at Michigan -- professional staff, and research assistants.
The new staff member's work will include:
* Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of researchers
* Coauthoring journal articles for publication
* Analyzing ANES data to produce technical reports
* Monitoring panel survey sample composition over time
* Writing, editing, and reviewing survey documentation and reports
* Writing, editing, and reviewing questionnaires and their programming specifications
* Testing computer implementation of questionnaires
* Reviewing and analyzing data files using statistical software (SPSS, Stata, or SAS), conducting comparisons with other contemporaneous surveys
* Preparing data files for public release
* Reviewing and designing methods for survey data collection
* Managing and monitoring the activities of firms doing data collection
* Supervising undergraduate research assistants
* Managing administrative tasks for the project
* Collaborating with ANES personnel at the University of Michigan
Qualifications (desirable but not all required):
*Master's or doctoral degree in a quantitative social science (e.g., political science, psychology, sociology, communication, economics), statistics, or a related field
*Experience conducting social science research
*Experience writing articles for academic journal publication
*Proficiency using statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS, or Stata)
*Experience planning and conducting surveys
*Expertise in one or more of the following areas: American politics, survey sampling, statistical data analysis, questionnaire design, research methodology, project management
The position is a full-time, exempt, term appointment through December 2009 (the end of the current grant period), with full benefits, with the possibility of extension after December 2009 dependent on staffing needs and renewal of the NSF grant.
Interviewing of qualified applicants will begin promptly in order to fill the position as soon as possible.
To apply:
Please apply through the Stanford Jobs web site:
http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html
From the Stanford Jobs search page, enter 33511 in the keyword search field to find the job listing, and apply online by submitting your cover letter and resume or vita.
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