American Institutes for Research

Director

• Serve as the principal architect for designing data systems to support AIR’s health research projects, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reproducibility.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the development of innovative data solutions, using tools such as Databricks, R, Python, Stata, SAS, and Git.
• Provide strategic oversight of data management and analytics pipelines, including governance, automation, and quality assurance.
• Design and implement advanced statistical programming methodologies for complex longitudinal, hierarchical, and multi-source datasets.
• Act as a senior advisor to project directors, statisticians, and clients on data strategy, analytic design, and technical feasibility.
• Spearhead the development of enterprise-wide programming standards, reusable assets, and documentation practices.
• Mentor and coach senior programmers and analysts, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Lead technical contributions to proposals, including conceptualizing analytic frameworks, developing budgets, and writing compelling technical narratives.
• Represent AIR in high-level client engagements, conferences, and professional forums, showcasing AIR’s capabilities and thought leadership.
• Monitor emerging technologies and trends in data science and health analytics, recommending strategic investments and innovations.

Managing Director, Healthcare Systems

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Develop research designs for evaluating PK–12 education funding policies
• Build innovations in strategic funding for special education and English learners
• Support policymakers in analyzing funding to improve low performing schools
• Manage or lead projects and tasks over time
• Analyze financial and administrative data using education finance research methods
• Collect data to describe resource allocation strategies
• Prepare written materials that are accessible to policymakers
• Present findings to clients and the public
• Participate and lead efforts to prepare research proposals for funding
• Supervise and mentor junior staff

Education Policy Researcher – PK–12 Finance

Artificial Intelligence

• Lead the design and delivery of complex strategic initiatives for education, workforce, and public-sector clients.
• Partner with clients to assess needs and co-design strategies that are responsive to local context and system constraints.
• Translate labor market data, AI-related analysis, and research findings into practical tools, frameworks, and guidance for practitioners and leaders.
• Develop reusable products such as toolkits, dashboards, guides, and implementation resources that can be adapted across projects and audiences.
• Support work related to AI and the future of work, including helping clients understand workforce impacts, pathway implications, and system-level responses.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and communities of practice with senior leaders and cross-sector stakeholders.
• Provide project leadership, including managing scope, timelines, and staff; mentoring and supervising junior team members as appropriate.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partners across education, workforce, and research communities.
• Contribute to proactive business development by building and sustaining relationships, sharing market and client insights, identifying emerging needs and potential opportunities, and actively supporting early‑stage shaping and positioning efforts that advance mission‑aligned growth.
• Represent AIR at conferences and other events, actively participate in social media and other promotional campaigns focused on AI, labor market change, and education-to-workforce alignment.
• Contribute to proposal development, concept design, and thought partnership with program leadership.

Senior Strategist – Future of Work, AI Readiness

Manager

• Support corporate development initiatives led by the VP of Strategy, including strategic partnerships, joint ventures, incubator and accelerator efforts, and new business models.
• Bring, cultivate, and expand a large, diverse network of relationships to generate and advance new revenue opportunities.
• Identify and advance partnership opportunities that align with AIR’s priority growth areas and emerging markets.
• Lead or support negotiations, structuring agreements and revenue models in collaboration with Legal, Finance, and Contracts.

Principal Development Manager

Consultant

• Conduct needs sensing and synthesize needs to develop technical assistance plans.
• Design and deliver technical assistance and training in virtual and in-person settings.
• Create content for technical assistance and capacity-building materials such as toolkits, guides, fact sheets, training materials, and web-based resources.
• Facilitate meetings, communities of practice, and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Provide subject matter expertise on employment and economic opportunity topics.
• Support research activities, such as focus groups, surveys, and case studies.
• Contribute to the development of reports that describe and interpret findings for clients, partners, and other relevant audiences.
• Represent the organization in interactions with state, local, and site-based staff; potential clients; and partner organizations.
• Work on collaborative project teams, including supervision of junior colleagues as a task or functional lead.
• Contribute to team efforts to develop new business opportunities including strategic planning, identification and pursuit of opportunities, and proposal development.
• Manage or lead projects or tasks, with assumption of greater responsibility over time.

Technical Assistance Consultant, Employment and Economic Opportunity

Research Scientist

• Lead the design and execution of rigorous policy analysis projects and support project leadership across work of increased scope and complexity.
• Provide high-level expertise on evidence-based strategies related to accountability (school designations, measures, state ESSA plans, waivers, local supports).
• Assume primary responsibility for writing reports and presentations that describe and interpret findings for clients, partners, and stakeholders, with a focus on accountability and school improvement.
• Design and apply appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret data, maintaining AIR’s quality standards.
• Translate complex findings into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for client reports, technical memos, and presentations.
• Manage projects or major workstreams of increased scope and complexity, including planning timelines, overseeing deliverables, and managing project-level client relationships.
• Engage with stakeholders and partners through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive work environment by providing guidance and feedback to team members and supporting high-quality project outcomes.

Senior Researcher, Education Systems & Policy – Part-Time

• Develop training materials, implementation measures, and protocols for monitoring and supporting education initiatives across various topics.
• Deliver professional development, coaching, and technical assistance to educators, administrators, and leaders in various education settings.
• Provide expertise in one or more education-related areas (e.g., school improvement, school finance, rural education, curriculum, assessment, indigenous education, special education, CTE).
• Support research activities, including data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Contribute to reports and presentations that describe and interpret findings for clients, partners, and stakeholders.
• Build capacity in education systems through collaboration with schools, districts, and education organizations.
• Collaborate on project teams and manage/lead projects or tasks as assigned.

Technical Assistance Consultant, Education Systems – Policy

Software Engineer

• Lead and support the design, development, and implementation of advanced programming solutions for large-scale health research and evaluation projects.
• Oversee data management workflows, including data extraction, transformation, validation, and integration from multiple sources (e.g., claims, EHR, survey data).
• Develop and optimize reusable code libraries, macros, and templates to improve efficiency and consistency across projects.
• Conduct complex statistical analyses and generate high-quality outputs including tables, listings, and visualizations for technical reports and publications.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to programming teams, including code reviews, training, and guidance on best practices.
• Collaborate with statisticians, researchers, and data scientists to translate analytical requirements into executable code.
• Ensure compliance with data security protocols and regulatory requirements in secure computing environments.
• Contribute to proposal development by designing analytic approaches, estimating level of effort, and drafting technical sections.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance data quality, reproducibility, and workflow automation.
• Represent AIR in client meetings and technical discussions, communicating complex programming concepts clearly and effectively.

Senior Systems Programmer, Healthcare Innovations

Research Analyst

• Conduct literature reviews and contribute to evidence syntheses. This includes searching for and identifying relevant literature, reviewing and extracting relevant insights, and drafting summary documents.
• Coordinate or manage research study tasks, with assumption of greater responsibility over time, including developing and tracking project timelines, activities, and deliverables; supporting budget management; and preparing submissions for Institutional Review Board (IRB) and data governance review.
• Conduct quantitative and/or qualitative data collection under the guidance of senior researchers, including accessing extant data and assessing its utility for project needs; assisting with the development of data collection protocols and surveys; supporting participant recruitment; conducting interviews and note-taking; supporting survey administration; and/or supporting data analytics activities.
• Clean, code, and analyze data from interviews, observations, surveys, and administrative data using the appropriate research methods and software (e.g., STATA, R, NVIVO, or similar software).
• Draft and contribute to technical reports, policy briefs, memos, and presentations that describe and interpret findings of analyses clearly for policymakers, practitioners, funders, research and non‑technical audiences.
• Support project management tasks, including tracking timelines, coordinating data‑collection activities, and contributing to internal quality‑assurance processes.
• Support new business and proposal development efforts by engaging in tasks such as researching funding opportunities, collecting and organizing required information, and writing proposal sections.
• Support and help maintain relationships with partners, including other researchers and practitioners.
• Clearly communicate knowledge of the project purpose and objectives to clients and external partners when necessary and represent AIR in a professional manner.

Mixed-Methods Research Associate, Employment & Economic Opportunity

• Conduct background research on educational measurement, assessment innovation, and external stakeholders.
• Support all stages of assessment development, including collecting, analyzing, and reviewing assessment items.
• Support the design and implementation of quantitative research and assessment studies by preparing, organizing, and documenting datasets.
• Conduct preliminary and advanced statistical analyses and synthesize findings.
• Synthesize research, policy, or data inputs into clear summaries for non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to the development of presentations, data visualizations, and concise written summaries.
• Manage outreach, records and follow‑up activities for partnerships and client engagements.

Quantitative Research Associate, Educational Measurement

• Compile, review, and submit U.S. national and subnational education data to international organizations and partners.
• Conduct basic statistical and descriptive analyses, (e.g., means, medians, percentages, distributions, subgroup comparisons, and regressions).
• Perform detailed data quality checks on statistical tables, figures, and narrative text to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with technical standards.
• Review and provide input on assessment and survey frameworks, questionnaires, and content‑related materials, including documenting comments and supporting alignment or review studies.
• Support survey and assessment operations by helping implement procedures, manage logistics, track timelines, and carry out quality assurance activities.
• Assist with preparation of technical documentation, methodological descriptions, literature summaries, meeting notes, and project records.
• Contribute to the development of descriptive analyses and support interpretation of results for reports, presentations, and policy‑facing materials.
• Support production and review of reports and data products in PDF and web‑based formats.
• Assist with project management tasks, including organizing files, tracking deliverables, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating across multiple concurrent projects.
• Maintain professional, collaborative working relationships with internal teams, federal clients, and international partner organizations.

Quantitative Research Associate, Employment & Economic Opportunity

• Work with large-scale Medicaid administrative datasets, including eligibility, enrollment, claims, encounters, and provider files.
• Extract, clean, recode, merge, and de-duplicate complex administrative data from multiple sources.
• Convert and integrate data across analytic environments and formats (e.g., STATA, R, Python, SQL-based systems, mainframe extracts, or cloud-based platforms).
• Perform data quality checks, logic checks, and validation analyses to ensure accuracy and completeness of analytic datasets.
• Handle missing data, conduct outlier analyses, and construct derived variables and analytic measures.
• Develop research-ready datasets to support health policy analysis, program evaluation, and reporting.
• Produce tables, figures, and customized analytic outputs for internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to statistical analyses under the direction of senior researchers.
• Write and maintain clear documentation for data processing steps, analytic decisions, and code changes.
• Troubleshoot and revise existing code and workflows to improve performance, reproducibility, and accuracy.
• Provide technical guidance or informal mentoring to junior programming staff, as appropriate.
• Contribute to technical sections of reports and proposals.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Medicaid Programmer, Healthcare Innovations

• Query large databases including Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payer claims data.
• Construct and document analytic data files.
• Create customized and presentation-quality reports from data analysis results.
• Apply quantitative methods and techniques to manage and analyze research data.
• Participate in the design of research studies.
• Manage administrative aspects of projects.
• Support the preparation of technical procedures and reports.
• Review work products to ensure quality and consistency of content.

Junior Programmer, Healthcare Innovations

• Lead or co-lead the construction, interpretation, and computation of quality measures relevant to Medicaid programs and models, including work that supports program monitoring and performance-based payment approaches.
• Support measure strategy activities such as annual review and refinement of measure sets, assessment of specification changes and updates from measure stewards, and quantitative/qualitative evaluation of measure performance—bringing a Medicaid lens to feasibility and burden considerations.
• Provide guidance to clients and partners on measure use and implications of updates for feasibility, administrative burden, interoperability, and alignment with broader quality frameworks.
• Manage day-to-day project operations in roles such as principal investigator, project director, or task lead, ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard. Lead collaborative project teams by developing timelines and coordinating staff assignments.
• Identify research problems and design rigorous applied studies, including aligned research questions, methodologies, and analytic plans.
• Apply subject-matter expertise to design and implement relevant, responsive, and impactful research projects.
• Lead and contribute to research proposals for federal, state, foundation, and other clients.
• Devise and implement innovative solutions to practical challenges in applied research.
• Lead data collection and analysis efforts, including the design of qualitative and/or quantitative data collection tools (e.g., interview protocols, focus group guides, surveys).
• Supervise field-based data collection activities, including interviews, observations, focus groups, and document reviews.
• Conduct or oversee data analysis using appropriate tools and techniques for various data types.
• Communicate study progress and findings clearly and effectively through reports, briefs, visualizations, and other materials.
• Represent the organization professionally in client interactions and manage client and stakeholder relationships with awareness of the broader policy and practice landscape.
• Communicate effectively with clients, partners, and stakeholders, and foster positive, collaborative working relationships.
• Contribute thoughtfully and creatively to project teams.

Senior Researcher, Medicaid Quality Measures

Compliance

• Serve as a subject matter and methodological expert in the implementation and monitoring of federal health programs, especially alternative payment models, and value-based care initiatives.
• Provide leadership in designing monitoring frameworks, performance metrics, data collection plans, and analytic strategies for implementation and monitoring contracts.
• Contribute to AIR’s technical vision for CMS and CMMI work, helping shape approaches that meet federal expectations for rigor, transparency, and accuracy.
• Direct large, complex implementation and monitoring or evaluation projects—or a portfolio of smaller projects—ensuring alignment with federal requirements and high quality delivery, on time and on budget.
• Oversee the planning, design, and implementation of project procedures, including monitoring plans, analytic plans, research protocols, monitoring reports, risk summaries, and stakeholder engagement strategies.