The Conference Board

Research Analyst

• Support several Human Capital research projects at the same time.
• Develop high-quality data collection tools, including surveys, interview guides, focus group guides, and instrument testing protocols.
• Program surveys in Voxco (or Qualtrics) and support survey testing, logic checks, and data validation.
• Conduct qualitative research, including interviews and focus groups, and synthesize findings using NVivo.
• Conduct quantitative analysis using SPSS or R, including cleaning datasets, running descriptive analyses, and generating tables and visualizations.
• Summarize research findings in clear, well-structured briefing notes, slide decks, and reports.
• Contribute to literature reviews, jurisdictional scans, and background research on HR-related topics.
• Use project management software to track tasks, manage timelines, document progress, and support effective workflow coordination.
• Collaborate closely with senior researchers and contribute to internal project meetings and planning discussions.
• Support the development and updating of Power BI dashboards.

Research Analyst, Human Capital – 12-month contract

• Lead and support quantitative and qualitative research projects related to compensation, benefits, HR metrics, and broader human capital trends.
• Conduct rigorous data analysis, including cleaning, structuring, and interpreting HR-related datasets to produce clear, actionable insights for senior HR audiences.
• Transform complex findings into well-structured reports, dashboards, online experiences, impact papers, articles, and executive-ready presentations.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Power BI dashboards and other data-visualization tools, supporting our shift toward integrated research deliverables that pair narrative insights with interactive dashboards.
• Serve as a client-facing researcher for the Compensation Research Centre, providing data insights, responding to member questions, and presenting at meetings.
• Present research findings to executive HR councils across Canada, facilitating discussions and supporting council programming with data-driven insights.
• Identify emerging human capital issues and contribute to the creation of timely, client-focused research projects that meet the evolving needs of Canadian HR leaders.
• Develop proposals, contribute to business development, and collaborate on opportunities to expand the Human Capital research portfolio.
• Provide leadership in conceptualizing new research methodologies and strategies to maximize the impact and relevance of our work and expand survey sample size.
• Contribute content to external forums, including media interviews, articles, commentary, and public presentations.
• Use project-management software to monitor progress, maintain documentation, and coordinate deliverables effectively across a remote research team.
• Demonstrate CBoC values of collaboration, ownership, excellence, evidence, passion, and integrity in all aspects of work and interactions with colleagues, members, and clients.

Senior Research Associate, Human Capital – 12-month contract

• Lead research projects utilizing quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
• Co-create new business by identifying opportunities, developing pitches and proposals, and contributing to and finalizing stakeholder engagement strategies.
• Lead the execution and finalization of project deliverables.
• Provide leadership in conceptualizing new research ideas, methodologies and strategies to maximize research impact.
• Provide leadership and contribute subject matter expertise during client engagement and business development activities.
• Lead content development, stakeholder relations, speaker identification, sponsorship outreach, and event delivery for sustainability-related leadership roundtables and convenings.
• Support membership growth and retention strategies for the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Council.
• Demonstrate values of collaboration, ownership, excellence, evidence, passion and integrity in all aspects of work and interactions with colleagues and clients.
• Commitment to producing high quality work and demonstrating professional values in all aspects of work and interactions with colleagues and customers.

Senior Research Associate, Sustainability

Ecommerce

• Act as a primary support resource for all staff, promoting best practices and encouraging consistent CRM usage.
• Create and maintain user guides, training materials, policies, and documentation to support CRM onboarding and ongoing education.
• Deliver training sessions and provide one-on-one support to improve CRM literacy across teams.
• Build strong working relationships with users to understand their day-to-day needs and challenges.
• Monitor usage metrics and work with groups to fully utilize CRM and CRM-related systems/tools.
• Support user groups through change management and adoption of new features or process transitions.
• Work closely with internal communications to ensure CRM-related updates, news, information are communicated on a regular basis.
• Collaborate directly with business users to implement and apply CRM-related processes that support operational goals.
• Translate business requirements into practical CRM solutions and workflows.
• Provide hands-on support in troubleshooting CRM issues and identifying root causes.
• Monitor data hygiene from user activity to ensure data integrity guidelines are followed and escalate issues when necessary.
• Identify and coordinate CRM strategies and initiatives that support organizational goals and objectives.

CRM Specialist, E-Commerce

Backend Engineer

• Maintain, monitor, and support our on-premise Microsoft SQL databases for sales, marketing and research data.
• Manage existing SQL Agent jobs, SSIS integration packages and stored procedures
• Conduct performance tuning of SQL queries for automated job primarily backup and mirroring.
• Support website database replica for Power BI and SQL reporting used by internal users.
• Assist in setup and ongoing maintenance of big data environment for our research team.
• Design and manage end-to-end solutions for both current and future state data systems.
• Setup, configure and manage Microsoft Fabric for enterprise use and data governance.
• Create ETL between on prem databases and the Dataverse for CRM, ERP and Microsoft SaaS.
• Develop a technology data model and schema to support new systems
• Propose path forward for Cloud based database setup from MS SQL to Azure.
• Automate database processes, tasks, and procedures using SQL, Azure and power automate.
• Setup role-based access to safeguard the security and integrity of databases and applications.
• Prepare monthly report on database utilization, capacity usage and actionable recommendations.
• Manage tracking sheet of all database issues, status and how we plan to mitigate.
• Develop technical workplans for roadmap project assignments.
• Collaborate with business units to collect application and database requirements for new applications
• Conduct Proof of Concepts for new database technology and provide recommendations to the Director, IT.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to delivering high-quality and professional values

Research Analyst, Human Capital – 12-month contract

Senior Research Associate, Human Capital – 12-month contract

Senior Research Associate, Sustainability

CRM Specialist, E-Commerce

Senior Database Developer