Operations Research Assistant

ProSidian Seeks a Operations Research Assistant (Contract Contingent) in Charlotte, NC / Washington, DC / Remote to support an engagement for agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. 

The ProSidian Engagement Team Members work to understand and improve consumer financial decision-making skills by researching consumer financial behavior, knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and experiences, developing innovative approaches to help consumers make better-informed financial decisions, and analyze and study the effectiveness of financial education approaches.

Operations Research Assistant Candidates shall work to support requirements for PR0009 Program Support and provide support to the Research Team conducting research on consumer behavior, knowledge, attitudes, and experiences in order to better understand consumer financial decision-making. The Operations Research Assistant will assist the Operations Research Analyst with in-depth research of consumer financial behavior and financial education using focus groups, surveys, and interviews and compile that research into comprehensive reports to be delivered to other members of the Research Team.

The Operations Research Assistant is responsible for providing support with conducting in-depth research using statistical analysis, models, tables, and other methods to better understand consumer financial decision-making and ways consumers make those decisions. Responsibilities also include supporting field tests of newly-developed tools and strategies to better educate consumers, assisting the Operations Research Analyst and other members of the Research Team with monitoring and developing new tools, strategies, and messages to educate consumers, and providing analysis of the overall project to support the Research Team's report(s).