Analytic Methodologist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports the development of analytic strategies to resolve key intelligence questions of missiondriven requirements.
• Works with ambiguous information, deconstructs key questions, suggests methodologies, develops data schema to structured observations, and supports visualization of applicable data.
• Identifies and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production.
• Identifies, retrieves, manipulates, relates, and / or exploits structured data sets from all available sources.
• Uses scripts, visual analytic modeling tools, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for repeatable, widely applicable procedures.
• Combines empirical or quantitative methods with data analysis for intelligence production of complex and data-driven assessments.
• Evaluates the capabilities and limitations of analytic methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, data mining, decision analysis or modeling and simulation.
• 3+ years of experience with statistical and general-purpose programming languages for data analysis, such as Python or R
• Experience developing and documenting predictive data models, quantitative analyses, and visualization of targeted data sources  
• Formal training or professional experience conducting quantitative social science, including survey design and analysis and/or field or laboratory experiments.
• Possession of excellent detail-oriented and organizational skills
• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, data science, computer science or quantitative social science or four additional years of experience in those fields

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in quantitative social science including statistics and methodological training.
• Ability to work with non-technical audiences on technical problems in a highly collaborative and team-oriented environment, and balance long and short-term taskings
• Ability to take poorly defined problems and convert them into questions for which practical quantitative solutions can be defined
• Ability to exhibit flexibility, initiative, and innovation to succeed in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment and compose client deliverable quality documentation, analysis, and reports

General Factors:

• Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; more than 40-hour work weeks should be expected when schedules demand it.
• Willing to travel, if needed.
• No Relocation.
• Must be able to sit/stand at a desk for long-periods and must be able to lift 20 pounds occasionally.
• Must be able to multi-task and rapidly change priorities with limited notice.

Clearance: TS/SCI with current CI Poly (adjudicated within the past 5 years or ability to pass a CI Poly)

Location:  Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling; On-Site

Salary Range: 70K - 87K

Online applications, please.

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