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New Job: American National Election Study Staff |
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| Posted by: | Jon Krosnick |
| Title/Position: | Professor |
| School/Organization: | Stanford University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | January 31st, 2008 |
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Job Opening:
Psychologist to join the American National Election Study Staff.
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We are seeking a social scientist to join our team in carrying our 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 to be 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 forms of data collection from representative national samples of American adults: an innovative Internet Panel survey collecting data each month between January 2008 and mid-2009, and a large face-to-face survey with hour-long interviews conducted both before and after the November 2008 elections. To learn more about the ANES, visit our website: www.electionstudies.org
We are seeking a researcher to join our terrific 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.
* 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.
* Monitoring panel survey sample composition over time.
* Preparing data files for public release.
* Writing, editing, and reviewing survey documentation and reports.
* 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.
* Coauthoring journal articles for publication.
* 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., psychology, political science, sociology, communication, economics), statistics, or a related field.
*Experience conducting social science research.
*Proficiency using statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS, or Stata).
*Experience planning and conducting surveys.
*Experience writing articles for academic journal publication.
*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, with full benefits, with the possibility of extension after December 2009 dependent on renewal of the NSF grant.
Interviewing of qualified applicants will begin immediately 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 28970 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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