Research Analyst, Evaluation, Education

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AccessLex Institute

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1983

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit • Legal Services

AccessLex Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of lawyers by providing resources and support throughout the legal education journey. They offer a variety of programs focused on academic and bar success, financial education, and increasing diversity within legal education. AccessLex also champions research and advocacy initiatives aimed at improving access and value in legal education, and they provide tools like bar review courses and scholarship resources for aspiring law students.

📋 Description

• Actively contribute to the Company’s research agenda to further empirical understanding of law school access, affordability, academic and bar success, and the value of legal education; assist in implementing tactics associated with the Company’s Strategic Plan. • Assist in the administration and evaluation of the LexScholars Pre-Law and Post-Baccalaureate law school pathway programs, including but not limited to processing program applications, entering applicant and participant data, and maintaining related databases. • Organize, structure and clean data to permit for use to perform research and policy analysis. • Conduct basic statistical analyses using both internal and external data; support the production of visually appealing and easy to interpret tables and graphical displays of statistical results for a variety of audiences. • Advise and assist colleagues and external stakeholders with research design, data analysis, data interpretation, and identifying and navigating higher education data sources. • Contribute to technical reports describing procedures, data collection, and/or research results. • Present, with approval from supervisor and as needed, at professional conferences; represent the Center at relevant industry conferences and events. • Assist in the development and maintenance of a repository of research evidence and data (e.g., the AccessLex Resource Collections) based on internal and external sources that can support the Company’s research objectives, specifically, and those of legal education more generally. • Other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pre-law, statistics, economics, sociology, political science or related field AND minimum 2 years of related experience in a similar role; OR Master’s degree in education, economics, political science, public policy, sociology, statistics, or related field. • Passion for advancing access, affordability, and value in legal education. • Ability to self-organize--to manage and set deadlines independently in order to balance multiple deliverables and ensure their timely completion. • Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills; ability to anticipate and respond to challenges. • Superior attention to detail and commitment to accuracy. • Strong mathematical and analytical skills. • Knowledge (acquired through experience or coursework) of evaluation methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative. • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, including the generation of pivot tables and the use of typical data management functions. • Prior experience performing quantitative analyses using R Studio, STATA, or another statistical program. • Knowledge of issues and programming related to diversity in education. • Experience writing and presenting research reports. • Public speaking and presentation skills (preferred). • Knowledge of program evaluation theory and/or methods; experience conducting program evaluation (preferred). • Knowledge of higher education or legal education data sources, data definitions and limitations (preferred). • Knowledge of higher education and student financial aid policy, particularly for graduate and professional students (preferred). • Knowledge of diversity pathway programming (preferred). • Experience translating statistical terms and methodologies to lay audiences (preferred). • Experience using R Studio (preferred). • Experience using PowerBI, Tableau, or another data visualization software program (preferred).

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: AccessLex Institute provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.