Statistician - CLOSED

Salary: £28,000 - £36,500 depending on experience and qualifications

Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Closing date for applications: CLOSED

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our educational research team as a statistician, to support a range of research and evaluation projects.

AlphaPlus is an education service business specialising in standards, assessment and certification. We help our clients design, develop, deploy and evaluate qualifications and their underpinning assessments. AlphaPlus is a wholly owned subsidiary of AQA Education .

The statistician will be a specialist in the technical area of statistics or quantitative research, psychometrics or data science, who will work within the research team to provide high quality statistical outputs contributing to AlphaPlus educational research and consultancy services.

Candidates must have:

• statistics knowledge at Master's degree level or a BSc with a minimum of two years' experience
• experience in coding statistical analyses (in R, SAS, SPSS or similar software). Please note ability to code in R, though helpful, is not essential for consideration for the role; appointees without coding skills in R will be expected to learn to code in R on taking up the post
• the ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers.

Some project management skills and knowledge of classical test theory, item response theory, DIF analysis, and regression analysis techniques are desirable, as is working experience as a statistician/junior analyst at a research body (ideally in education).

Benefits include:

• discretionary profit related bonus scheme
• enhanced maternity/parental leave
• 25 days paid leave plus the eight statutory bank holidays
• commitment to developing the expertise of our employees.

For an informal discussion about the vacancy please email Kath Fanning who will arrange for a member of the team to contact you for a call.

The position is permanent, full-time working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday and is Manchester office-based.Part-time/job share/other flexible working arrangements may be considered for the right candidate.

The role will also involve national and occasional international travel, potentially including working in customer offices.

Please note that sponsorship under the UK government's skilled worker sponsorship scheme is not available.

To apply:

The full job description is available here .

Please complete the online application form available here . To complete and submit your application you will also need to upload the following documents:

• Your current CV, tailored to highlight relevant qualifications and experience
• A covering statement which sets out how you meet the competencies relevant to this role including how you meet the most important personal attributes and details of your most significant relevant experience.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to undertake an online coding test and to an in-person interview in Manchester subject to satisfactory completion of the test, both taking place in the week commencing 9 June 2025.

AlphaPlus is committed to providing equal opportunities to all and has an inclusive approach to recruitment, selection and employment. Demographic details requested as part of our monitoring process are not used in our selection process. You are invited to download and complete the equal opportunities monitoring form and return it encrypted to or by post, marked Confidential, to Ziyan Amjid, AlphaPlus, c/o AQA Education Ltd, Devas Street, Manchester, M15 6EX.

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