Do you want to help prepare future health professionals by being a champion for reliability and validity in secure assessments?
Do you want to contribute to the launch and research of new item types and scoring systems in secure testing?
About our Team
Elsevier Health applies innovation, facilitates insights, and helps drive more informed decision-making for our customers across global health. We support health providers by providing accessible, trusted evidence-based information; prepare more medical and nursing students with effective tools and resources; provide insights that help clinicians improve patient outcomes; and supports a more personalized and localized healthcare experience. All for the benefit of every patient.
About the Role
As a Psychometrician, you will be recommending methodologies and analyses, perform effective and efficient data analysis, interpreting results, and communicating findings. This role includes individual work and collaboration with teams who focus on content, engineering, research, test security, and more. This role could include interactions and collaboration with internal and external customers. The Psychometrician is required to have skills in subspecialties like coding, data analysis, data visualization, or test security and is required to have solid written and verbal skills to communicate with internal and external customers and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Performing psychometric analyses and research using R for actual and simulated data, mostly CTT with some IRT
- Identifying and implementing psychometric methodologies to support custom reporting, new products, and research
- Preparing technical materials and creating reports that communicate statistical findings
- Providing analytical and consulting support to internal and external customers
- Assisting in developing technical procedures and psychometric guidelines
- Creating reports, custom analyses, and interpretive materials
- Delivering metrics, dashboards, and reports; updating technical documentation
- Supporting data privacy and working closely with associated teams
Requirements
- Have excellent coding skills using R for analyses and simulations (Proficiency in Python and Tableau is advantageous).
- Have a background in test development, particularly with experience in Generative AI, Large Language Models, and Item Generation
- Possess a solid background in the practical application of psychometrics in a non-academic professional setting
- Have advanced education in psychometrics, measurement, educational statistics, or a related field or higher
- Show the ability to communicate psychometric concepts to business people as well as scientists
- Have proficiency with MS Office suite with an emphasis on Excel for data analytics
- Possess an interest in working in a dynamic, international, and agile environment
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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