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Maguire Associates

Junior Research Associate in an Educational Consulting Firm

Maguire Associates is seeking an entry level employee to perform the following job duties:

* preparation of datasets for development of customized statistical models;
* identification of influencers on predicted outcomes;
* conducting trade-off analyses related to setting enrollment and financial goals;
* determination of the best solution for colleges’ or universities’ strategic goals; and
* monitoring of institutional scholarship and grant award distribution.
Performance of these primary responsibilities involves advanced statistical and econometric skills. Experience in using statistical software packages. Master's degree in relevant field required. Maguire Associates provides research, consulting, and modeling services to schools, colleges, and universities.

Maguire Associates is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

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Maguire Associates, Inc.
5 Concord Farms
555 Virginia Road, Suite 201
Concord, MA 01742
www.maguireassoc.com

Eduventures Project/Client Manager

Project/Client Manager, Higher Education

About Eduventures, Inc.
Eduventures is the industry leader in research and consulting for higher education institutions. Through our membership research programs, Eduventures facilitates the exchange of best practices among members and conducts actionable research and analysis on shared challenges. Additionally, Eduventures expert analysts and practitioners work with each member institution to address specific institutional needs. Eduventures Consulting Services provide proprietary consulting to a diverse group of colleges and universities. Consulting clients benefit from our deep in-house expertise on education as well as the insights gathered through our work with our 300+ partner institutions of higher education through our membership programs. More about Eduventures can be found at www.eduventures.com.

The Opportunity
Eduventures seeks a strong project and team manager with higher education development experience or knowledge to serve as a project/account manager. This individual will manage accounts, research projects, and a team of researchers to successfully deliver high-impact benchmarking, survey, and best practice research to higher education advancement clients. Eduventures seeks strong managers who can contribute effectively to teams executing a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods to meet the specific needs of our college, university, and other clients. Frequent research methods we employ include online surveys, telephone interviews with executive-level contacts, focus groups, and Internet and database research. All team members are also expected to produce customized research recommendations and effectively advise clients in the course of critical decision-making activities related to their organizational success.

Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
• Build and maintain relationships with higher education advancement clients that result in client retention
• Advise clients on critical business decisions based on credible evidence
• Manage and conduct qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research to support client needs
• Common research topics include:
o Increasing frontline productivity
o Aligning academic and advancement priorities
o Improving annual giving participation
o Managing return on advancement investments
o Transitioning donors to higher giving levels
• Lead the research and creation of client-specific products addressing constituent research, benchmarking, or other information needs of individual clients
• Manage a team of researchers and a pool of client projects to deliver on-time, high-quality projects that exceed client expectations
• Manage a calendar of industry Webinars delivered monthly to clients
• Interact regularly with clients to monitor and ensure client satisfaction and to identify and meet client needs
• Work with program manager and team to monitor and report on client activities and satisfaction

Requirements
• Articulate, mature, self-starters with 2-5+ years of experience in development consulting, development services account management/sales, and/or other higher education client and project management
• Strong analytical skills with qualitative and quantitative research experience
• Strong written and verbal business communication skills and client service ethic
• Exceptional writing skills; proven ability to transform key data into clear business commentary and action points
• Strong presentation and client-facing skills
• Expertise in managing relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors
• Business-oriented, entrepreneurial mind-set
• Superior attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience with SPSS, STATA, or similar statistics package
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree or above highly preferred
• Experience in higher education is a plus, particularly in development and fundraising

This is a full-time, salaried role with benefits, based in our Boston office.

Application Process
Qualified candidates may apply online via our Web site at https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=502308 .
Please upload your resume and cover letter in a single Microsoft Word or PDF document.

Please no phone calls or agencies. Relocation assistance is not available.

Eduventures

Research Analysts/Consultants, Higher Education

About Eduventures, Inc.
Eduventures is the industry leader in research and consulting for higher education institutions. Through our membership research programs, Eduventures facilitates the exchange of best practices among members and conducts actionable research and analysis on shared challenges. Additionally, Eduventures expert analysts and practitioners work with each member institution to address specific institutional needs. Eduventures Consulting Services provide proprietary consulting to a diverse group of colleges and universities. Consulting clients benefit from our deep in-house expertise on education as well as the insights gathered through our work with our 300+ partner institutions of higher education through our membership programs. More about Eduventures can be found at www.eduventures.com.

The Opportunity
Eduventures offers exciting opportunities for individuals with market research or consulting experience combined with a strong interest in higher education. The Company has immediate openings for Associates, Research Analysts, and Consultants. Eduventures seeks strong individual performers who can also contribute effectively to teams executing a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods to meet the specific needs of our college, university, and other clients. Frequent research methods we employ include online surveys, telephone interviews with executive-level contacts, focus groups, and Internet and database research. Team members are also expected to effectively advise clients in the course of critical decision-making activities related to their organizational success.

Key Responsibilities
Key responsibilities of these roles include, but are not limited to:
• Building and maintaining relationships with clients
• Managing and conducting qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research to support client needs
• Common research tasks include:
o Secondary scans of higher education market characteristics
o Primary research to assess demand for education products
o Benchmarking and best-practices research
o Data analysis and reporting (utilizing SPSS and Excel)
o Writing summaries and analysis of research findings and education market trends
• Leading the research, development, and writing of client-specific work products addressing the market research, benchmarking, or other information needs of individual clients
• Delivering on-time, high-quality deliverables that exceed client expectations
• Advising clients on critical business decisions based on credible evidence

Requirements
• Articulate, mature, self-starters with 2-5 years of experience, or more, in market research, consulting, and/or higher education
• Strong analytical skills with qualitative and quantitative research experience
• Strong written and verbal business communication skills and client service ethic
• Exceptional writing skills; proven ability to transform key data into clear business commentary and action points
• Strong presentation and client-facing skills
• Expertise in managing relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors
• Business-oriented, entrepreneurial mind-set
• Superior attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree or above highly preferred
• Experience in higher education is a plus, particularly in one of the following areas: university administration, online and continuing education, development and fundraising, K-12 education policy and teacher preparation
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience with SPSS, STATA, or similar statistics package

This is a full-time, salaried role with benefits, based in our Boston office.

Application Process
Qualified candidates may apply online via our Web site at https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=499331 .
Please upload your resume and cover letter in a single Microsoft Word or PDF document.

Please no phone calls or agencies. Relocation assistance is not available.
Eduventures is an equal opportunity employer.

Education Resource Strategies

Job Title: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Full-time and/or part-time positions considered; 8-12 months with possibility to extend)
Job Description: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

ERS is seeking one or more full- or part-time post-doctoral fellows to conduct and publish academic research on resources in education, using data collected by ERS in its last several years of conducting action research with urban districts.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in a related discipline (economics, political science, public policy, or education or similar) by time the post-doc starts is strongly preferred. ABD status might be considered. Experience in quantitative analysis, including knowledge of statistics as well as small-study research design Excellent written and oral communication skills Experience in education or education reform a plus but a passion for improving urban education systems is required

Salary: Competitive, up to $60,000 for first year for qualified applicants, plus benefits. Post-docs are hired for up to one year with a possibility of a second year based upon satisfactory completion of initial research project and a successful second research proposal.

Detailed Job Description: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
In the last several years, ERS has collected and analyzed data on a number of large urban districts, including: Course schedule information that links teachers to classes and sometimes to specific students Detailed line-item budgets, including payroll detail, usually at lowest level of detail Human resources data on experience, certification, and education Student demographic information Student and school performance information

For some districts, virtually all of this information is disaggregated to the level of specific students. Other information is disaggregated to the level of classes or schools. In all cases, we have applied similar methods and frameworks to recode the expenditures to facilitate cross-district comparison and to allocate the costs down to the lowest possible unit, whether students or schools, given the nature of data provided.

The research conducted would attempt to describe and analyze patterns with regard to: Whether school-level resources are aligned with student needs, including patterns of individual attention, teaching quality, and time, such as teacher load, class size, time in subject, distribution of teacher expertise, priority investments across time, subject, grade, or student groupings. Whether overall district resources are aligned with priorities and the extent to which they are “misaligned,” trapped by legacy institutions and structures, including issues related to compensation reform, professional development strategies, school turnaround strategies, or human capital and performance management.

The data set is not currently sufficient to allow causal research on whether specific alignment patterns have yielded improvement in student performance. Thus, the research project would focus on resource alignment and misalignment at the district and school level in an attempt to: Describe patterns Analyze trends Try to discern and communicate root causes of existing good and bad practices (and suggest practical solutions or ways to take to scale) And/or model novel solutions to poor or misaligned resource use that may not exist at present (such as new compensation structures, new methods for funding schools, etc)

The deliverables will include: A concrete research plan, subject to approval by ERS that includes planned journal submissions ERS White paper(s) describing initial findings Research paper(s) for submission to scholarly journal
The ideal ERS Post-Doc has strong and proven analytical and qualitative research skills. Some knowledge and experience with statistics is strongly preferred. ERS is a small organization with a strong professional learning community. As such, we place teamwork, initiative and a desire to learn and grow at a premium. While experience in the education sector is not required, a passion for improving the educational experience for all students is! Post-doc should be willing to live and work in the Boston area and will participate in ERS-wide meetings and activities as a full member of the ERS team. However, the post-docs sole assignment will be to complete the research project and related activities. The cleaning and processing of data should and must be done in a way that is accessible to all members of the ERS staff and ERS retains sole ownership of the data, except for the uses to which the post-doc agrees to use it as part of the research design.

The post-doctoral fellow will be responsible to analyze and reanalyze any and all data related to the project, including any recoding or reprocessing of data that may be needed. ERS will do its best to facilitate additional access to client data sources where needed and will provide equipment comparable to any ERS employee, including access to a laptop computer. The post-doc will report to the ERS Director of Research but must also nominate and recruit three outside board members from academic institutions who will review the research proposal and provide regular guidance and counsel on the quality of the proposed project in exchange for an honorarium. ERS must approve the three outside board members.

Application Process
Interested in this post-doctoral opportunity? Please submit your resume, cover letter and a very brief statement of research interests of no more than one page, as well as three references (including at least two academic references) to Julie Derderian: jderderian@educationresourcestrategies.org
Those who pass a pre-screening, will engage in a second round process where they will engage in discussions with ERS and jointly develop a more detailed research proposal for final consideration. At that point, applicants will receive more information and limited access to the various datasets.

About Education Resource Strategies (ERS)
Education Resource Strategies, Inc. is a non-profit organization that works with large urban public school systems to rethink the use of district and school-level resources, supporting strategies for improved instruction and performance. ERS is the only organization in the country with over 10 years of experience collaborating with the largest urban districts in the area of strategic resource allocation. We have worked with Los Angeles Unified, Chicago Public Schools, Atlanta Public Schools, Baltimore City School District and the School District of Philadelphia.

What makes ERS unique?
(1) Our analytical approach: The core of our practice is to provide in-depth strategic and analytic support to leaders of large urban school systems. We do this by combining extensive knowledge of school systems and educational theory and practice with intensive, quantitative financial and data analysis. To support this work, we have developed analytic techniques, methodologies for mapping resources, and metrics for gauging performance that provide our clients with a unique perspective on how they deploy resources to support their priorities. This unique perspective, combined with ERS developed web and excel based decision support tools, provides district and school leaders clear and actionable information to develop solutions to resource allocation issues.
(2) Our collaborative client engagements: ERS’ client engagements are partnerships. We view it as part of our explicit mission to build client capacity to understand and implement effective resource practices. Successful engagements result in clients internalizing our methodology and approach into the way they do business. To accomplish that goal, our approach is very different from the typical grab data, crunch numbers, deliver a report model. Our client engagements frequently last over extended periods with significant contact, including working sessions where we collaboratively grapple over analysis to develop solutions and customized training.
(3) Our contribution to the national conversation: One of ERS’ primary missions is to influence the national conversation on district and school resource issues. Our working partnerships with school systems form the bridge between practice and research. Our relationship with clients provides us with access to a wealth of information not otherwise publically available and an unrivalled knowledge of the resource issues facing districts. This experience and the extensive comparative database of resource information and metrics for all of the districts in which we have worked form the foundation of our research and support tool development.
Our headquarters are in Watertown, MA, along the beautiful Charles River and conveniently located to Harvard Square and the Mass Pike. We have a unique work environment; we are committed to high quality in our work and committed to achieving that quality through a flexible environment that values work/life balance. More information about ERS is available at our website: www.educationresourcestrategies.org