ELO DATA COLLECTOR
Req #: | 177575 |
Department: | EARLY LEARNING |
Job Location: | Seattle Campus |
Posting Date: | 03/05/2020 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary and benefits are competitive. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. |
Shift: | First Shift |
Notes: | As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here. |
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Position Purpose:
The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoy outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
Cultivate Learning is dedicated to enhancing the quality of early learning environments for all children and eliminating the achievement gap that exists so clearly among our nation’s children. Our mission is to play a critical role in efforts to improve the quality of early care and education in Washington State and beyond, by providing training, support, and research on numerous research-based early childhood assessments and quality standards.
Cultivate Learning is funded by the Department of Early Learning, as well as through generous support by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Currently, Cultivate Learning is involved in the Washington State Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) standards initiative, Early Achievers, the Expanded Learning Opportunities Quality initiative (ELO QI), and other projects in support of quality learning programs in Washington State and beyond.
Position Complexities:
Cultivate Learning has an outstanding opportunity for a Data Collector. The Data Collector will be responsible for performing data collection on both the Expanded Learning Opportunities Team (ELO) and the Early Achievers Data Collection team. This position be a hybrid data collector and will be trained on both ELO and Early Achievers processes and measures and will work closely with both teams to ensure that data collection is timely and efficient. They will visit before and after school programs participating in the ELO QI, and early learning providers who are participating in Early Achievers to collect data. This data will inform Washington State’s QRIS Early Achievers standards. Applicants should reside in the King, Pierce, or Thurston County area.
This position has the challenge of collecting data as efficiently and objectively as possible within the constraints and comfort level of individual providers and acting as a liaison between the individual providers and the project team. They need to use independent decision making to score for the Early Achievers Quality Standards and the assessments that inform those standards. This position will be independently responsible for the coordination and planning efforts of each quarterly phase of the research project(s), will be expected to participate in the development of research designs and revisions to data collection processes and overall reliability, and are responsible for composing and editing technical reports, publications, and presentations.
Responsibilities:
Research Activities (72%):
Data Administration (28%):
Requirements:
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
Desired:
Conditions of Employment:
Application Process:
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