Some of what you’ll enjoy doing:

• Designing and implementing WITS’ survey-based research including the annual agricultural peak employment wage and worker studies.
• Managing research projects and overseeing labor market studies and program evaluations.
• Designing and developing research methods and procedures, statistical techniques, and econometric models.
• Documenting research methodologies to ensure reproducibility, standardization, and quality of studies.
• Using statistical programming languages to develop applications or write computer programs to implement the quantitative methods for a program evaluation or to deliver study results to end users.
• Documenting code or computer programs.
• Interpreting study results to include in reports, presentations, or other products for customers.
• Administering data sets of any stage of a program evaluation, including raw, cleaned, analyzed and results data sets.
• Creating summary tables, graphs, and charts to display statistical calculations and results.
• Preparing articles, reports, briefing papers, and other written materials.
• Managing the annual agricultural peak employment wage and practice employer and worker surveys, including survey design, coordination of tasks with survey contractor and coordination of field interviews.

• A degree in economics, statistics, social sciences or a related field.
• Advanced knowledge of mathematics, statistics or econometrics, including probability, sampling and estimation methods.
• Advanced analytical skill – Use logic and reasoning to assess data, form logical conclusions, evaluate research options, and make decisions or recommendations.
• Research skill – Identify, collect, organize, and document data in ways that make the information most useful for assessment, analysis, investigation, and drawing conclusions.
• Demonstrated ability to program (code) using object oriented, statistical, markup or other languages (for example: R, SQL, C# or JavaScript) to collect, clean and transform data from large databases (big data or internal databases), implement statistical or econometric methods and to develop applications to display study results that are used by end users (e.g., legislators, researchers or general public).
• Demonstrated ability to plan, design, test, and administer surveys, including oversight, and data collection.
• Demonstrated ability to document all the steps of a study, including computer programs, write technical papers similar to journal articles, and write plain language reports for executives, legislators and general audience.
• Ability to rapidly identify, synthesize and communicate a wide range of information from a variety of sources, perspectives and formats.

Desired Qualifications

• A graduate degree in economics, statistics, social sciences or a related field.
• Knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts of micro- and macro-economics.
• Knowledge of econometrics.
• Knowledge of economic, employment, and labor market information.
• Knowledge of economic factors that influence or are influenced by changes in the workforce.
• Knowledge of machine and statistical learning methods.
• Knowledge of R, SQL and a markup language.
• Two-year experience planning, designing, testing, and administering surveys,
• Customer service skill – Build and maintain customer satisfaction with products and services.
• Knowledge of the Migrant Seasonal Farm Worker (MSFW) program, the temporary foreign agricultural labor certification program (also known as H-2A), and the agricultural recruitment system (intrastate and interstate job clearance system).

ESD Manager Core Competencies
Accountability  /  Communication Effectiveness
Creativity  /  Critical Thinking
Customer Service  /  Conflict Management
Decisiveness  /  Financial Management
Inclusiveness  /  Influence
Interpersonal Abilities  /  Leveraging Diversity
Organization and political Awareness
People Management  /  Vision

• A resume will not substitute for the “work experience” section of the application.
• Applications with comments such as “see attachments” in the supplemental question responses will be considered incomplete.

Other Information

• The Employment Security Department is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
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Veteran’s Preference
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