Senior Research Fellow – Apprenticeship & Workforce Policy

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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🟠 Senior

🧬 Research Scientist

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AlphaHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Construction • Consulting • Logistics

AlphaHire is an AI-powered talent acquisition and recruitment firm that specializes in fast, subscription-based staffing solutions, primarily for the construction industry. The company combines automated candidate sourcing, AI-driven matching and screening, and dedicated talent partners to accelerate hiring cycles and improve retention, claiming placements typically happen weeks faster than traditional methods. AlphaHire also works with private practices and larger systems, offering vetting, interview support, and flexible pricing models to deliver vetted professionals from technical roles to executive placements.

📋 Description

• Support current and future externally funded research on apprenticeship policy, employer incentives, and workforce-development interventions • Refine research questions and causal estimands • Evaluate treatment and comparison-group designs • Conduct Difference-in-Differences, event-study, synthetic-control, or related quasi-experimental analyses • Work with RAPIDS / Apprenticeship.gov and other administrative datasets • Integrate BLS, Census, state workforce, and labor-market data • Review methodology and threats to identification • Contribute to grant proposals and pre-analysis plans • Conduct or supervise empirical analysis if the project is funded • Contribute to academic manuscripts, research reports, and policy publications

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. or advanced doctoral training in economics, public policy, sociology, education, statistics, or a related quantitative field preferred • Demonstrated applied research experience • Experience working with large administrative or longitudinal datasets • Proficiency in R, Stata, Python, SQL, or comparable research tools • Strong written communication and methodological judgment • Academic affiliation welcome but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Project-based research opportunity; not a guaranteed salaried appointment • Potential participation in future WIL research, grant, publication, and sponsored-project opportunities • Potential consideration for roles such as Senior Research Fellow, Methods Lead, Co-Investigator, Principal Investigator / Co-Principal Investigator, or Research Consultant • Compensation, institutional involvement, scope, and formal appointment established separately for funded roles