Statistical Data Analyst

About ETS

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we’ve been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories.

Through strategic acquisitions, we’ve expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we’re partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

Assist in performing activities that support the statistical operations and data processing for assigned testing programs. Consult with supervisory staff in the application, modification, and documentation of such processes. Actively monitor and report on status of work tasks, ensuring projects follow established schedules and identifying potential issues in advance.

Perform statistical analysis and data-processing tasks using statistical software packages (e.g. SAS), Excel and ETS proprietary software. Perform a variety of statistical calculations and quality control activities. Alert supervisory staff to inconsistencies or potential issues.

Prepare, modify, and validate critical components of statistical procedures and reports, score reporting, and technical documentation for internal or external clients. Contribute to research projects or special analyses.

Contribute to design, implementation, and maintenance of statistical analysis systems that produce data summaries, validate data against expectations and reformat data for subsequent analysis. Collaborate on existing analysis code using version control and author analysis codes for ad-hoc reports.

Participate in activities to proactively work toward shorter cycle time, higher quality and greater customer satisfaction. Suggest to higher-level staff the areas in which greater efficiencies might be obtained.

Exercise sound judgment when performing quality control on statistical files, analysis results and reports.

Implement technical documentation of data analysis processes, solutions and results to achieve 100% quality in all work products.

In compliance with ISO 9001 standards, help to create and maintain accurate and up-to-date technical documentation and procedures.

Manage competing priorities and adhere to strict timelines even as unexpected challenges or schedule changes arise. Maintain a high level of commitment to client satisfaction and quality of work products.

Maintain confidentiality and follow appropriate safeguards for test information including answer keys and test design as well as test takers’ personal information and test performance.

A Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Psychology or a closely related field is required.

• Six months of experience in performing data analysis using statistical computing environments and tools (e.g. SAS, R, SPSS, Python) is required.
• Coursework in statistics and computer sciences is highly desirable.
• Experience with Microsoft Word sufficient to create text and tables for memos and reports is required.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel in performing basic data entry, efficiently organizing data and information, and analyzing and displaying data is required.

A Bachelor’s degree in Statistics,…