Salary: £28,000 – £36,500 depending on experience and qualifications
Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, permanent role
Closing date for applications: Sunday 5 January 2025
We are currently seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our educational research team as a statistician, to support a range of research and evaluation projects.
AlphaPlus is an education service business specialising in standards, assessment and certification. We help our clients design, develop, deploy and evaluate qualifications and their underpinning assessments. AlphaPlus is a wholly owned subsidiary of AQA Education
www.aqa.org.uk . The statistician will be a specialist in the technical area of statistics or quantitative research, psychometrics or data science, who will work within the research team to provide high quality statistical outputs contributing to AlphaPlus educational research and consultancy services. Candidates must have: Statistics knowledge at Master’s degree level or a BSc with a minimum of two years’ experience Experience in coding statistical analyses (in R, SAS, SPSS or similar software). Please note ability to code in R, though helpful, is not essential for consideration for the role; appointees without coding skills in R will be expected to learn to code in R on taking up the post The ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers. Some project management skills and knowledge of classical test theory, item response theory, DIF analysis, and regression analysis techniques are desirable, as is working experience as a statistician/junior analyst at a research body (ideally in education). Benefits include: Discretionary profit related bonus scheme Enhanced maternity/parental leave 25 days paid leave plus the eight statutory bank holidays Commitment to developing the expertise of our employees. For an informal discussion about the vacancy please email Matt Turner, Senior Data Science Officer,
matthew.turner@alphaplus.co.uk , who will contact you to arrange a suitable time for a call. The position is permanent, full-time working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday and is Manchester office based. Part-time/job share/other flexible working arrangements may be considered for the right candidate. Any such preferences are to be discussed further at interview. The company offers hybrid working (two days a week minimum in the office, with three days working at home). The exact allocation of office-based days is decided by the appointee’s manager, although flexibility remains our policy and approach. The role will also involve national and occasional international travel, potentially including working in customer offices. Please note that sponsorship under the UK government’s skilled worker sponsorship scheme is not available. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to undertake a coding test and to an interview subject to satisfactory completion of the test, both taking place in the week commencing 13 January 2025. To apply: The full job description is available here. Please download the application form, complete and submit it by the application closing date to
recruitment@alphaplus.co.uk
together with your current CV tailored to highlight relevant qualifications and experience, and a covering statement. AlphaPlus jobs are based on competencies, which are published in the job description. When completing the covering statement, you are requested to set out how you meet the competencies relevant to this role, limiting this to no more than the five most important competencies. Please include how you meet the most important personal attributes and your most significant relevant experience. AlphaPlus is committed to providing equal opportunities to all and has an inclusive approach to recruitment, selection and employment. Demographic details requested as part of our monitoring process are not used in our selection process. You are invited to download and complete the equal opportunities monitoring form and return it encrypted to
monitoring@alphaplus.co.uk
or by post, marked Confidential, to Ziyan Amjid, AlphaPlus, c/o AQA Education Ltd, Devas Street, Manchester, M15 6EX. By submitting an application to AlphaPlus you indicate that you agree to the terms of our recruitment privacy notice and the AlphaPlus privacy policy published on our website.
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www.aqa.org.uk . The statistician will be a specialist in the technical area of statistics or quantitative research, psychometrics or data science, who will work within the research team to provide high quality statistical outputs contributing to AlphaPlus educational research and consultancy services. Candidates must have: Statistics knowledge at Master’s degree level or a BSc with a minimum of two years’ experience Experience in coding statistical analyses (in R, SAS, SPSS or similar software). Please note ability to code in R, though helpful, is not essential for consideration for the role; appointees without coding skills in R will be expected to learn to code in R on taking up the post The ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers. Some project management skills and knowledge of classical test theory, item response theory, DIF analysis, and regression analysis techniques are desirable, as is working experience as a statistician/junior analyst at a research body (ideally in education). Benefits include: Discretionary profit related bonus scheme Enhanced maternity/parental leave 25 days paid leave plus the eight statutory bank holidays Commitment to developing the expertise of our employees. For an informal discussion about the vacancy please email Matt Turner, Senior Data Science Officer,
matthew.turner@alphaplus.co.uk , who will contact you to arrange a suitable time for a call. The position is permanent, full-time working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday and is Manchester office based. Part-time/job share/other flexible working arrangements may be considered for the right candidate. Any such preferences are to be discussed further at interview. The company offers hybrid working (two days a week minimum in the office, with three days working at home). The exact allocation of office-based days is decided by the appointee’s manager, although flexibility remains our policy and approach. The role will also involve national and occasional international travel, potentially including working in customer offices. Please note that sponsorship under the UK government’s skilled worker sponsorship scheme is not available. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to undertake a coding test and to an interview subject to satisfactory completion of the test, both taking place in the week commencing 13 January 2025. To apply: The full job description is available here. Please download the application form, complete and submit it by the application closing date to
recruitment@alphaplus.co.uk
together with your current CV tailored to highlight relevant qualifications and experience, and a covering statement. AlphaPlus jobs are based on competencies, which are published in the job description. When completing the covering statement, you are requested to set out how you meet the competencies relevant to this role, limiting this to no more than the five most important competencies. Please include how you meet the most important personal attributes and your most significant relevant experience. AlphaPlus is committed to providing equal opportunities to all and has an inclusive approach to recruitment, selection and employment. Demographic details requested as part of our monitoring process are not used in our selection process. You are invited to download and complete the equal opportunities monitoring form and return it encrypted to
monitoring@alphaplus.co.uk
or by post, marked Confidential, to Ziyan Amjid, AlphaPlus, c/o AQA Education Ltd, Devas Street, Manchester, M15 6EX. By submitting an application to AlphaPlus you indicate that you agree to the terms of our recruitment privacy notice and the AlphaPlus privacy policy published on our website.
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