Psychometrician Statistician

**Psychometrician Statistician**
Slough or York, United Kingdom (with hybrid working)
Do you have strong quantitative skills from a statistics, economics, psychology background and are interested in further developing yourself as a psychometrician? If so, grow your career with NFER as a Psychometrician and make a positive, lasting impact ina leading independent charity with a worldwide reputation.

**Salary**: £32,000 to £36,000
Location: UK, Slough or York Hybrid

**Job Type**: Full or part time, Permanent
We are fortunate to have some of the UK’s leading assessment experts and psychometricians that collaborate to deliver major national test development projects on behalf of clients such as STA, Ofqual and DfE. We also develop digital test products trusted bythousands of schools and our robust and innovative research, assessment, and other services are widely known and used to support positive change across education systems.
You’ll work with a variety of different research teams across NFER, and be involved in a number of psychometric, statistical and strategic areas covering many new and exciting areas of work.
You'll need to have a strong quantitative background, demonstrated through your field of study and be keen to specialise your psychometric knowledge. We'll provide you with a development program as part of your ongoing continued professional development.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Understand classical test theory and item response theory, or a willingness/ability to learn
- Experienced user of statistical software, ideally R and SPSS but including other statistical packages such as FlexMirt, MPlus or other IRT packages
- An ability to ensure the quality of statistical or psychometric outputs
- Have a practical and well-organised approach to the analysis of data
- Be able to work quickly and accurately to meet deadlines
- Be able to communicate effectively, with both researchers and other statisticians
- An ability to communicate analysis findings to a variety of audiences
**WHY NFER?**
We put impact before profit to improve outcomes for future generations everywhere, supporting positive change across education systems worldwide.
We are an independent charity and a trusted destination for education research evidence and insights.
We embrace agility and flexibility to enable you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments.
We place equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
**We offer our next Psychometrician;**:

- An attractive salary depending on experience and reviewed annually
- Generous pension scheme
- 42 days’ holiday per year including Bank Holidays + additional discretionary days
- Excellent support for continued professional development
- Hybrid flexible working meaning you can choose where you do your best work
- Open to the role being worked part-time
- Lots of well-being and social activities
- Skilled Worker visa sponsorship
- And the opportunity to help children around the world have a better life.
Other roles you may have experience of include: Economist, Quantitative Researcher, Research Data Analyst, Statistician.
This vacancy has been placed by Webrecruit on behalf of NFER.