Job Description

Wits Solutions Inc. (WITS) is a SBA certified Small Disadvantaged Business with headquarters in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. WITS has been providing best-in-class solutions in professional IT and administrative consulting to various Federal, State, Local and commercial customers. At WITS, we believe in working not for our clients but with them. This is why right from the beginning; our analysts and solution-builders work closely with our clients to ensure that the project outcomes continue to deliver value long into the future.

Job Description:

Education/ Certification Mandatory:

• Bachelor's degree in public policy, public health, economics, statistics, sociology, psychology, social work or a related field.

Work Experience Mandatory:

• At least 1 year of research, analysis or data work. An internship counts.
• Comfortable with Excel, including formulas and pivot tables.
• Some exposure to a statistical package such as SAS, Stata, R or Python.
• Careful and accurate. Must be able to follow a checklist without skipping steps.
• Clear written English.

Education/Certifications Nice To Have:

• Master's degree in progress or completed.
• Coursework in statistics or research methods.
• Section 508 accessibility training.

Work Experience Nice To Have:

• Experience with reference software such as EndNote, Zotero or Covidence.
• Experience with federal data sets.
• Interest in behavioral health, disability, aging or human services policy.

References/Certificates/Diplomas Required:

• Resume.
• Copy of the highest degree or transcript.
• Two work references.

Roles And Responsibilities:

• Run literature searches in the databases the analyst names and log every result.
• Screen articles against the criteria given and record why each one was kept or dropped.
• Pull data from articles and reports into summary tables.
• Clean and format data files and check them for errors.
• Build draft tables and charts.
• Format documents, fix references and check citations.
• Set up meetings, send invitations, track who is attending and prepare packets.
• Take notes at meetings.
• Keep project folders, file names and version numbers tidy.
• Do the fact checking pass on drafts before senior review.

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