Research Associate

20-Mar-2024

Harvard Enterprise College

65337BR

Place Description

The Crafting Your Life (LIFE) undertaking, led by Professor Leslie Perlow, is looking for a Analysis Affiliate – (Senior Knowledge Scientist and Undertaking Supervisor).

The mission of the LIFE undertaking is to make use of know-how to create new methods to gather information to concurrently allow the research of what it means to dwell a nicely lived, whereas additionally offering customers priceless insights that make a distinction in how they dwell their very own lives.

Professor Perlow and the LIFE undertaking are looking for an skilled information scientist to assist them take advantage of this thrilling alternative. The undertaking: 1) has assets to design and construct its personal information assortment instruments, 2) has entry to ongoing – and probably longitudinal – quantitative information on tens of hundreds of customers, and three) consists of an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners eager about exploring these matters. Specifically, Professor Perlow and the LIFE undertaking are looking for a knowledge scientist with experience in quantitative information evaluation and information analytics to assist lead the info assortment and evaluation. They search a candidate who has accomplished their grasp’s in information science (or a associated subject) to partake within the design and administration of a number of quantitative information assortment efforts. The profitable candidate will probably be desperate to creatively design information assortment efforts, analyze ensuing information, and handle the workforce. The info evaluation will contain information from current instruments which have already been developed for this particular undertaking (e.g. LIFE Simulation, LIFE Join, Developmental Relationship Mapping), however most significantly heart across the flagship software in growth – the LIFE Matrix. This new software, with an MVP deliberate to launch in September 2024, explores how customers spend their time and the worth these time allocations carry to them in addition to offers customers insights and proposals primarily based on evaluating them with others like themselves.
The best candidate will act as a collaborator, thought associate, and chief for the undertaking. They are going to be concerned in doing subtle information evaluation and information visualization. They may present superior subject-area experience, evaluation, and interpretation. They may also play a central function in overseeing the undertaking’s work with school, government fellows, doctoral college students, and analysis associates, and serving to to handle the undertaking’s day-to-day actions.

Fundamental {Qualifications}

Fundamental {Qualifications}:

• Superior diploma, or bachelor’s diploma, with 5+ years of related work expertise required
• Robust data of machine studying methods and statistical strategies for information evaluation and inference.
• Proficiency in R (most popular) or Python.
• Experience in information visualization instruments and methods.
• Expertise working with giant datasets and information manipulation.
• Expertise managing others and efficiently working as a part of a workforce.

Further {Qualifications} and Expertise

Glorious analytical and communication abilities (each written and oral). Robust consideration to element and skill to prioritize duties successfully.

Proof of educational excellence. Demonstrated ability at navigating complicated organizations. Confirmed skill to work independently and creatively. This place requires a person able to constant use of discretion, judgment, and initiative. Proof of prior high-quality, authentic educational writing, and background in evaluation and interpretation of related information, analysis, information, and literature. All positions will probably be given a writing examination. Skill to learn educational, subject-specific data and write a reasoned and considerate evaluation, in addition to produce a artistic interpretation, is a should. Robust abilities associated to the Microsoft Workplace Suite are anticipated.

Diplomatic abilities, consolation in interacting with outstanding people, and charm underneath stress are important. It’s useful if the candidate is accustomed to navigating a fancy group, similar to Harvard Enterprise College.

Further Info

This can be a full-time time period appointment beginning this summer time via June 30, 2025, with potential for re-appointment for the next 12 months. All HBS RA roles are structured as one-year appointments.

This function is obtainable as a hybrid (some mixture of onsite and distant) the place you’re required to be onsite at our Boston, MA primarily based campus 2-4 days per week. Particular days and schedule will probably be decided between you and your supervisor. Candidates ought to anticipate to be on campus to assist with course supply within the Fall and Spring.

We might conduct candidate interviews just about (telephone and/or through Zoom) and/or in-person for this function.
A canopy letter is required to be thought of for this chance. All candidates will probably be anticipated to submit a writing pattern, transcript, and a code pattern.

Harvard Enterprise College won’t provide visa sponsorship for this chance.

Tradition of Inclusion: The work and well-being of HBS is profoundly strengthened by the range of our community and our variations in background, tradition, nationwide origin, faith, sexual orientation, and life experiences. Discover HBS work tradition at https://www.hbs.edu/employment/.

Advantages

We invite you to go to Harvard’s Whole Rewards web site to study extra about our excellent advantages bundle, which can embody:

• Paid Time Off: 3-4 weeks of accrued trip time per 12 months (3 weeks for assist employees and 4 weeks for administrative/skilled employees), 12 accrued sick days per 12 months, 12.5 holidays plus a Winter Recess in December/January, 3 private days per 12 months (prorated primarily based on date of rent), and as much as 12 weeks of paid depart for brand spanking new dad and mom who’re major care givers.
• Well being and Welfare: Complete medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient advantages, incapacity and life insurance coverage applications, together with voluntary advantages. Most protection begins as of your begin date.
• Work/Life and Wellness: Little one and elder/grownup care assets together with on campus childcare facilities, Worker Help Program, and wellness applications associated to emphasize administration, vitamin, meditation, and extra.
• Retirement: College-funded retirement plan with contributions from 5% to fifteen% of eligible compensation, primarily based on age and earnings with full vesting after 3 years of service.
• Tuition Help Program: Aggressive program together with $40 per class on the Harvard Extension College and decreased tuition via different collaborating Harvard graduate faculties.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Program that gives 75% to 90% reimbursement as much as $5,250 per calendar 12 months for eligible programs taken at different accredited establishments.
• Skilled Improvement: Applications and courses at little or no value, together with via the Harvard Heart for Office Improvement and LinkedIn Studying.
• Commuting and Transportation: Varied commuter choices dealt with via the Parking Workplace, together with discounted parking, half-priced public transportation passes and pre-tax transit passes, biking advantages, and extra.
• Harvard Amenities Entry, Reductions and Perks: Entry to Harvard athletic and health amenities, libraries, campus occasions, credit score union, and extra, in addition to reductions to numerous forms of providers (authorized, monetary, and so forth.) and cultural and leisure actions all through metro-Boston.

Division Workplace Location

USA – MA – Boston

Job Code

RS0056 Researcher II Humanities

Work Format

Hybrid (partially on-site, partially distant)

Division

Division of Analysis and School Improvement

Union

00 – Non Union, Exempt or Short-term

Appointment Finish Date

30-Jun-2025

Pre-Employment Screening

Schooling, Id

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EEO Assertion

We’re an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, coloration, faith, intercourse, nationwide origin, incapacity standing, protected veteran standing, gender id, sexual orientation, being pregnant and pregnancy-related situations, or some other attribute protected by legislation.