Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's (preferred) degree in quantitative or related field
- Proficiency in using SPSS or SAS
- Proficiency in descriptive and inferential statistics
- Skills for quantitative analyses
- Ability to pay attention to detail
Responsibilities:
- Provide assistance to internal and external clients
- Screen and respond efficiently and thoroughly to internal and external data requests
- Integrate GMAC data and research and external research into reports and presentations
- Cleansing, recoding, and managing of GMAT EExaminee data
- Perform quality control procedures to maintain integrity of data
- Perform data management including creating, merging, and archiving large data files
- Assure compliance with all company and departmental data privacy and security policies
- Develop, maintain, and document research data storage and retrieval systems
- Performing routine and special data analyses and research
- Conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analyses
- Gather and organize secondary research on graduate management education industry
- Provide editorial and formatting assistance
- Assist in producing publications, e.g., GMAT Candidate Profile, Trend Reports for world-wide and specific geographic areas, etc.
- Create tables and graphics
- Provide editorial and formatting assistance
- Create and implement systems for tracking the progress of work and files
The Research and Development department is seeking a Research Analyst, who has a proven experience in four key areas:
- Providing assistance to internal and external clients
- Cleansing, recoding, and managing of large data sets
- Performing routine and special data analyses and research
- Assist in producing publications based on data analyses and research
Expected Results and Responsibilities
This section details Expected Results and Responsibilities for this role. Expected Results answer the question, "What accomplishments and outcomes will the Council see in 1 to 2 years, generated by a successful employee in this role?" Responsibilities answer the question, "How will the employee go about generating the expected results at GMAC?"
Expected Results
- Expended and improved customer service by providing high quality statistics and trends to internal and external clients
- GMAT examinee data is well maintained, accurate, and has integrity
- A collection of analyses procedures and scripts is established and updated
- Consistent statistics and results about GMAT examinees
- High level quality of GMAT examinee-related publications
Company:
A not-for-profit education organization of leading graduate business schools worldwide, dedicated to creating access to and disseminating information about high quality graduate management education. The organization sponsors the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), its primary service that is used as part of the admissions process by graduate management programs around the world
The Research and Development department directly addresses the mission by systematically identifying issues, gathering information and supporting data, providing mission-critical syntheses, and conducting basic and applied research to improve the quality and use of current and potential client products and services.
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