|
Labor category |
Government hourly rate |
Government daily rate |
|
Managing Consultant |
$234.41 |
$1875.26 |
|
Principal |
$191.52 |
$1532.13 |
|
Senior Consultant |
$114.71 |
$917.68 |
|
Consultant |
$86.78 |
$694.25 |
|
Survey Operations Manager |
$84.79 |
$678.29 |
|
Senior Analyst |
$68.83 |
$550.61 |
|
Research Analyst |
$52.87 |
$422.93 |
| Administrator |
$79.80 |
$638.39 |
| Clerical |
$45.88 |
$367.07 |
Labor category descriptions
Managing Consultant
Education: Master’s Degree (PhD preferred).
Work Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in social science research, data collection methods, and statistical analysis techniques.
Position Description: Managing consultants are responsible for 1) technical direction and financial oversight of all projects in a specific area, such as survey research for state and federal government agencies; 2) development of technical and cost proposals in response to RFPs and other requests for quotes for research services; 3) hiring, training, and development of staff at all positions in the Market and Survey Analysis Team; 4) Oversight of all Market and Survey staff activities and final deliverables to ensure client satisfaction; and 5) strategic planning and future direction and growth of the Market and Survey Analysis Team.
Principal
Education: Bachelor's degree
Work Experience: At least 5 years of relevant experience
Position Description: The Principal is normally an industry expert or focused area expert. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: (1) technical leadership; (2) quality control and timeliness of all deliverables; (3) preparation or supervision of work plans, financial, logistical and other documents; (4) review of all financial and logistical information on a periodic basis; (5) recommendation and evaluation of proposed staff; and (6) verbal and written presentations as required.
Senior Consultant
Education: Master's degree
Work Experience: 6-10 years of relevant experience
Position Description: Principal Consultants carry out a wide range of technical activities. Senior Consultants are often the most senior person on the client site, either leading the project team or operating alone with off-site supervision. Senior Consultants make regular contact at senior levels and may take a line/functional management role within client organization. Clients regard this individual as a reliable operator who consistently delivers good results, meeting or exceeding their expectations.
Consultant
Education: Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred)
Work Experience: 5-7 years' work experience in relevant field
Position Description: Consultants carry out technical and managerial assignments in teams or with on-site supervision, and may lead small teams or supervise staff members. Consultants take on assignments of increasing complexity as skills and experience develop.
Survey Operations Manager
Education: Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Degree preferred).
Work Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in survey research operations, at least 2 years as a survey research operations manager in a facility with computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) capabilities.
Position Description: The survey operations manager is responsible for 1) anticipating staffing needs, hiring and training staff who provide high-quality data collection work in telephone interviewing, mailing, and data processing; 2) developing and implementing telephone survey operations procedures, including tracking the start-up of new projects, scheduling, anticipated staffing needs, assigning data collection staff to projects, and quality control measures; 3) identifying and implementing methods to improve our ability to recruit more good interviewers, develop systems to motivate interviewers and reward good performance, and retain our best interviewers longer; 4) keeping interviewer training methods up with the state-of-the-art in the survey research industry; and 5) developing procedures to keep project managers, technical staff, and clients fully up-to-date on progress, performance, and deliverables for survey research projects.
Senior Analyst
Education: Bachelor's degree in related subject area
Work Experience: 3-5 years' relevant experience
Position Description: Senior Analysts are experts in financial analysis, industry specific analysis with regard to competitive insights, and the use of analytical software. Responsibilities typically include: 1) preparation and implementation of the analytical plan for product production; 2) assessing and advising on existing and potential conflicts which could affect project completion; and 3) promotion of policies, actions, and approaches to mitigate existing or potential conflicts.
Research Analyst
Education: Bachelor's degree in related subject area
Work Experience: 0-2 years' experience in a comparable field
Position Description: Research Analysts perform analytical tasks, such as preparation of tables, charts, and graphs, or secondary research under the supervision of senior staff.
Administrator
Education: Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s Degree optional).
Work Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in project cost accounting, timecard reporting, invoicing, and office operations.
Position Description: The administrator position requires someone with a general accounting background and billing experience. The administrator is responsible for project cost accounting, working with project staff to prepare invoices for clients, and overseeing the timecard reporting and logging of vendor and subcontractor invoices to the correct project cost centers. The administrator will also provide support for project staff in opening and closing projects, preparing vendor and subcontractor agreements, and facilitating the review of contractual terms and conditions for each project.
Clerical Assistant
Education: HS Diploma required (Bachelor's degree preferred)
Work Experience: 1-2 years' work experience required
Position Description: Clerical Assistant may be asked to carry out activities such as data collection and providing general administrative support to the project.
