Total 3 information analyst job vacancies in Science / R&D / Research category in Washington, District of Columbia

-Supervising a staff of economists, social science analysts, program analysts, and policy analysts on a variety of data and technical analysis issues critical
to the development, evaluation, and implementation of Medicare and other health financing policies.
-Overseeing staff that conduct a variety of quantitative and qualitative assessments to estimate the costs, benefits, and impacts of a range of Administration and Congressional initiatives.
-Overseeing the analyses conducted by staff and produced by contractors, including ensuring their methodological rigor, technical accuracy, and the development of research products that effectively communicate analytical results.
-Directing data analysis on a broad range of health services research, evaluation and policy issues.

• Serves as a Social Science Analyst in the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Research, Evaluation, Forensics & Technology (OREFT), Office of Crime Prevention and Youth Justice (OCPYJ).
• Provides scientific oversight of one or more social science research portfolios in OCPYJ, including a variety of program grants, research-based grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
• Acts as a subject matter expert and scientific advisor for a significant segment of a social science or program area with a focus on child protection, delinquency prevention, youth justice systems, school safety, human trafficking, hate crimes, and/or other related content areas.
• Performs analytical research, evaluation, program development and other tasks in furtherance of OCPYJ functions and portfolios related to crime prevention and youth justice.
• Develops, implements, analyzes, and disseminates a range of extramural and intramural social science research and evaluation projects that employ different research methods.
• Takes on the responsibility of an expert advisor and technical authority on complex and groundbreaking policy and program challenges, formulating policies, strategies, requirements, and plans for social science research programs and projects with agency-wide impact.

As a Physical Scientist (Senior R&D Analyst), you will:

- Work with Division Manager, Analysts, Project Managers, external stakeholders, and team members from different areas of expertise to determine appropriate work and test procedures for materials used in currency such as inks, papers, and special substrates.
- Plan and perform investigations to develop new methods and means of validating findings. Isolates unknown and novel conditions to develop methods and assessment techniques.
- Determine data required and personally, or in concert with data review and analysis personnel, determine the accuracy required to permit meaningful statistical interpretation of test results and what degradation may result from poor data.
- Serve as a Designated Laboratory Representative and custodian of laboratory equipment.
- Ensure teamwork products meet the goals of the organization.