Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology.

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s welcomed.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time.. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports a wide range of customers that span the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, PAN Foundation, Library of Congress, Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services, and the USDA Forest Service. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Researcher impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s research strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in research processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Researcher include:

• Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management

• Leads cross functional efforts for team members and team leads

• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery

• Plans, conducts, analyzes, and shares knowledge from research based on the team’s questions and goals

• Prioritizes research projects based on team needs and goals, balancing research team capacity

• Plans and facilitates collaboration between researchers, product team members, and stakeholders

• Influences and communicates research strategy for the program

• Demonstrates the ability to coach and mentor researchers, with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow within the research discipline

• Participates in grading candidate homeworks and participating in panel interviews

• Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks

• Oversees research scope and the development of recommendations; leads efforts to effectively communicates results to internal and external stakeholders

• Contributes to planning, conducting and synthesizing research

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience

• Develop and create high-quality plain language content that engages users and is easy to understand

• Collaborate with content strategist and facilitate training for content contributors
• Ensure consistency in plain language content messaging, tone, and voice across all workstreams
• Provide translation services or facilitate translation services with a third party if needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management
• Leads cross functional efforts for team members and team leads
• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join/

Benefits:

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $100,000 -$125,000 Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

job reference: SENIO001245

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)