30.4074, Jobs: General Linguistics: Researcher, Educational Testing Service

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4074. Mon Oct 28 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4074, Jobs: General Linguistics: Researcher, Educational Testing Service

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:40:48
From: Dave Yanchuk [dyanchuk at ets.org]
Subject: General Linguistics: Researcher, Educational Testing Service, New Jersey, USA

 
University or Organization: Educational Testing Service 
Job Location: New Jersey, USA 
Web Address: https://www.ets.org/
Job Title: Research Project Manager
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 


Description:

Educational Testing Service (ETS), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is a
global not for profit organization whose mission is to advance quality and
equity in education. With more than 3,400 global employees, we develop,
administer and score more than 50 million tests annually in more than 180
countries at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.

The NLP & Speech research groups in ETS's Research & Development division is
hiring a Research Project Manager (RPM) to provide project management support,
especially in the context of NLP and Speech research and associated ETS
business relationships. The projects in the NLP & Speech research groups focus
on the application of NLP, speech, dialog, and multimodal processing
algorithms in automated scoring capabilities for assessment and learning tasks
involving constructed responses (such as essays and spoken responses). The
group is also actively pursuing technology innovation in education and
learning spaces by performing foundational research, prototyping
next-generation capabilities, and collaborating with academic and industry
partners.

The RPM will support research projects in the NLP & Speech groups by
collaborating with Principal Investigators, RPMs, other Research & Development
team members and ETS departments, vendors, and ETS and external partners and
clients.

Specific responsibilities include:
- Performing complex and connected research tasks and handling project
management in coordinating the logistics of multiple phases of
business/operational relationships (e.g., recruitment, scheduling, quality
checks, data collection, coding, annotation, managing data collection through
crowd-sourcing, payments, or linguistic analysis activities for NLP & Speech
data).
- Serving as liaison between project lead and other ETS departments, project
staff, and vendors and supporting the identification, recruitment, contact,
and selection of research sites and subjects.
- Developing, refining, coordinating and participating in the application of
guidelines (annotation protocols) to complete linguistic annotation tasks for
spoken and written language typically used in the context of automated
evaluation systems for text and speech.
- Organizing, verifying, and conducting quality control checks regarding data
collection and performing data analysis.
- Reviewing, editing, and revising proposals, manuscripts, presentations and
other written communications.

Requirements include:
- Master's degree in linguistics, education, psychology, measurement,
statistics or related area. Coursework or experience in Statistics or Research
Methods, Computer Programming, Linguistics and/or Data Science is highly
desirable.
- Minimum of 6 years of research-related experience or a combination of
research experience and demonstrated knowledge in a relevant discipline are
required.
- Training in formal project management and/or certification and basic
technical scripting skills (e.g., Python), or an interest in learning these
skills are desired.
We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, possible relocation
assistance and excellent opportunities for professional and personal growth. 

Educational Testing Service is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Employer of Women and Minorities, protected Veterans and Individuals with
Disabilities, and is a Drug-free workplace.

To apply, please see the application link provided below.



Application Deadline: 23-Apr-2020 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.Click2Apply.net/tpxh2s8k7xtx7z78 
Contact Information:
	Dave Yanchuk 
	Email: dyanchuk at ets.org 


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