Organization/Company
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Job Status
Position Type/Sector
Government – Federal
Summary
You will serve as a research psychologist/social science researcher in a division within the Office of Behavioral Safety Research. The Office has national responsibility for conducting behavioral research on road user factors to prevent crashes and strategies to reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries. You will manage applied research and evaluation of highway safety demonstration projects and explore the effectiveness of approaches to modify road user behavior to improve traffic safety.
Qualifications
- Experience with quantitative analysis techniques including evaluative research methods, sampling statistics, and/or economic analyses to apply these techniques.
- Experience conducting research and evaluation in experimental psychology or other social science, injury prevention, or traffic safety.
- Experience using one or more computer software packages that create spreadsheets, work with databases and perform statistical analyses.
- Experience in project and organizational management.
- Experience evaluating long range plans.
- Experience preparing articles, program briefings, and other products to disseminate research and evaluation findings.
- Demonstrated work experience in planning, designing, conducting and managing research or evaluation studies.
- Knowledge and/or training in the theory and principles of behavior science, social science, experimental psychology (e.g., cognitive, developmental, social),human factors, injury control, and/or public health).
- Knowledge, experience, and/or training in data analysis, statistics or epidemiology, and computerized statistical analysis.
- Demonstrated communication skills including experience in making presentations; critically analyzing reports and options; and writing reports, articles and summaries.
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