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July 2023
Researcher
Research · Chicago, Illinois (Remote)
The Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation is a not-for-profit scientific and educational organization that conducts an ongoing program of individual-differences research primarily of human aptitudes, but also of interests and personality (www.jocrf.org). We have 11 testing offices across the U.S.
We invite applications for a full-time researcher to work on test development and applied individual-differences research.
Essential Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in psychology, education, or a closely-related field
- Prepared to perform internal analyses and conduct external research on tests, including construct and criterion-related validity
- Ability to write effective reports for professional and lay audiences.
- Ability to plan and execute new lines of research
- Ability to present research at professional conferences. More broadly, to sustain an awareness of our work in the larger research community
- Ability to maintain knowledge of outside research related to our work and to communicate developments to others within the JOCRF
Desirable Qualifications:
- Highly skilled in psychometrics and well-prepared to develop new tests and adapt tests for new purposes
- Broad expertise in quantitative methods including structural-equations modeling.
- Ability to publish articles in scholarly journals
- Experience conducting survey research, preferably with a software platform such as SurveyMonkey
- Intermediate (or better) knowledge of software coding and troubleshooting
To apply, clink the link below to upload a cover letter and curriculum vitae. You should include three references in your CV.