Social Scientist

Discover your full potential. At Tetra Tech, we are collaborating with industry-leading experts for a sustainable future for our world. We combine consulting and engineering with advanced analytics and technology to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Our innovation hubs across the globe will enable you to share ideas and best practices while growing your professional network. Wherever you are in your career journey, you will benefit from working with world-class engineers, scientists, and technical specialists.

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Position Summary:  

Tetra Tech is seeking a Social Scientist to join our Madison, WI office. We provide research design, data collection, and analytic services that enable our clients to make business-critical decisions using high-quality data. This position will support process evaluations of clean energy programs through qualitative and quantitative analysis, technology and energy market research, and written and oral reports.

Your Role:

• Collaborate on interdisciplinary teams
• Provide input and participate in project meetings
• Conduct research tasks in support of broad portfolio of study types
• Maintain study documentation
• Review own work for overall accuracy, timeliness, completeness
• Deliver accurate results and useful recommendations based on the analysis of data
• Present results via written reports, oral presentations, and reporting dashboards
• Work towards proficiency in use of modern analytical tools (e.g., Python, PowerBI, Excel)
• Embrace continuous learning

Qualifications:

• MS/BS degree in social science discipline with some research experience
• Two or more years of experience working with data
• Understanding of data collection methods
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Direct program evaluation experience a plus
• Direct energy sector experience a plus

Starting Annual Salary: 

• $65,000 to $95,000

Line management responsibility:

• None  

Physical Demands & Work environment:  

• Hybrid office environment (3 days in-office/2 days remote)
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer monitor, computer mouse, calculator, and computer printer
• Able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations