Office assistant - wec

Department Overview:

WEC is a unit within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at UW–Madison that conducts and supports program evaluations within education and community systems through partnerships with school districts, professional associations, state agencies, education-based community organizations and foundations, and Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESAs). We are a community of evaluators with diverse content and methodological expertise.

Anticipated Start Date:

08/15/26

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

05/31/2027

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

All Remote

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

Minimum: 5 Maximum: 10

Schedule:

Flexible

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

Minimum: $17.00

Number of Positions:

2

Qualifications:

Undergraduate student. Studies in education strongly preferred. Experience and/or interest in qualitative and quantitative analysis, literature reviews, data cleaning, transcripts required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Communicate effectively via email
• Responsiveness to requests
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Comfort with Excel, Word, Adobe. Data visualization, statistical analysis experience is a plus

Position Summary/Job Duties:

Work with WEC staff to provide support with evaluation work. Tasks might including cleaning data sets, creating descriptive summaries from a data set, developing surveys in Qualtrics, transcribing interviews, thematic analysis of survey responses.

Physical Demands:

computer work

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

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Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/