Position Title: Research Associate

Duties & Responsibilities: The Research Associate is responsible for data collection, organization, mining, tracking, and analysis. Most of this information relates to member’s financial activities. This position is also responsible for member and staff inquiries, providing support to the Research and Development team, and survey design and execution. • Orchestra Statistical Report (OSR): survey administration, extrapolations; data accuracy, historical trend analysis for the League’s annual survey • Data Requests: build longitudinally accurate data-sets for OSR, Salary Reports, and other survey reports, analyze data, recognize trends, create reports, generate graphs, charts, Power-point presentations, • Data Warehouse: build and load longitudinally accurate data-sets for upload to the data warehouse, create report templates using Logi Analytics – Studio and Ad-Hoc and facilitate historical OSR, and other survey data upload to the warehouse, • Orchestra Financial Index – gather data quarterly, process submissions, analyze and create reports, • Liaison with consultants • Survey Creation: assist design and programming of surveys in Key Survey, general administration including gathering data, follow ups, reporting, • List-serves – monitoring, surveying, and responding with pertinent data/assistance. • Work collaboratively with members of all departments. • Other duties as assigned

Position Qualifications: Master’s degree preferred with a minimum of 2--3 years of work experience. Candidate with backgrounds in research analysis and finances preferred. Individual should have experience with SQL, SPSS and STATA as well as strong Excel skills required for financial modeling and trend analysis. The position requires precision and accuracy, the ability to gather, organize, and analyze data, summarize findings and write clearly and accurately about them. Since this position works with League members, excellent customer service and communication skills are required. A knowledge of classical/orchestral music is beneficial.

Salary Range: low 40s

Benefits:

Web Site: www.americanorchestras.org

Application Address: jobs@americanorchestras.org. Please indicate Research Associate in the subject line.

Contact Email: jwilson@americanorchestras.org

Application Deadline: MM/DD/YYYY