Senior Social Scientist

***This position is an unaccompanied assignment located at Al Udeid AB, Doha, Qatar. Employee will live on the economy in Doha, Qatar and drive to Al-Udeid Air Base for daily support to the military**_. _**Off Base Housing and Transportation is provided to include Internet service at the provided housing unit****:
**Roles and responsibilities for this position include**:

- **Provide data visualization and quantitative analysis.**:

- **Oversee design of opinion research and interpretation of findings. Examples of opinion research includes survey, flash polls, focus groups, and in-depth interviews.**:

- **Prepare status reports, assess project issues and risks, and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.**:

- **Develop, refine, and coordinate assessment and collection plans for active and future series in the theater being reported in the Command and Control of the Information Environment (C2IE) system.**:

- **Create, determine resourcing, and/or coordinate with stakeholders, the collection of social, cultural, economic, political, religious, and regional identified indicators through all available sources to assess approved series in the theater.**:

- **Develop, refine, and coordinate Series Assessment Reports (SARs) for all active series in the area of responsibility being reported in C2IE on a quarterly basis. Continuously maintain a summary report of all SARs in the theater and disseminate as necessary.**:

- **Collaborate with knowledge management to maintain and update assessments repositories of all existing series assessments, survey data, survey reports, and analytical intelligence reports as they pertain to conducting inform and influence operations in theater.**:

- **Conduct statistical analysis of aggregated data received from team members, other agencies, and organic assets, and author summary reports and/or present oral briefings for senior leadership.**:

- **Review studies conducted by similar organizations and determine reliability, validity and other strength factors for potential use in theater.**:

- **Contribute to methodology advancement for analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale qualitative and quantitative data sets to enhance comprehension of target audience behaviors and reactions.**:

- **Create/lead innovative social science research initiatives, educate staff on proposed responsibilities, collect results from the implemented tasks, and report to senior-decision makers.**:

- **Work independently or in collaboration with social scientists within and outside the theater.**:
**Minimum Qualifications**:
**Master’s degree in political science, international relations, area studies, behavioral sciences, sociology, geography, anthropology, or other related social science field. 9 years of relevant experience with Bachelor’s Degree, 7 years of relevant experience with a Masters or 4 years of relevant experience with PhD. Knowledge and experience in use of all Microsoft Office products. Willing and able to travel/reside within the Middle East as required by the program. Note: Areas in the Middle East may be austere and hazardous. Current U.S. passport. Current DoD TS/SCI. Must be willing and able to deploy and abide by required COVID quarantine and host nation requirements Must be able to meet OCONUS COVID-19 Travel Protocols for Qatar Must be able to Meet Qatar Visa Requirements Must have Valid US Passport with two years minimum remaining before expiration**:
**Preferred Qualifications**:
**PhD in psychology, sociology, anthropology, behavioral sciences, social sciences and more than 9 years of applicable experience. Current TS/SCI clearance. Joint intelligence or operational experience with U.S. Geographical Combatant Commands. Statistical package expertise in IBM SPSS/PASW, R, STATA or MS Excel statistics. Experience working in Afghanistan as an individual contributor. Experience with campaign / operational assessments.**:
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