Social Scientist

Responsibilities

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• The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position.
• Develops social economic and social psychology studies, using social science methods, to identify behavioral segments and profiles of taxpayer behavior.
• Performs a wide variety of duties involving social economics and social psychology to determine conclusions.
• Assumes technical responsibility for various phases of initiation, formulation, planning, execution, and control of major social psychology and social economic studies or continuous projects to recognize and evaluate significant and critical factors, to solve complex problems and to draw rational inferences based on research findings.
• Develops, analyzes, and presents social science information statistically, recognizing and adopting new techniques to fit the needs of research projects and prepares comprehensive reports necessary for the successful completion of assignments.
• Tasks may include working with Statistical software (e.g. SAS, SQL, R), Tableau, Microsoft Excel and/or Access.