Description
Direct data collection projects in all areas of survey research using complex designs (i.e., sampling, data collection, coding, data processing, application programming, analysis, methodology) receiving only administrative supervision. Coordinates with primary research staff and other operations personnel in the management of projects generally with budgets totaling $5,000,000 - $10,000,000 or smaller projects with highly complex or high risk designs with full authority, accountability and decision-making regarding budget, purchases, and hiring of staff. Effective in team building, coaching and persuasion skills and demonstrates expert level competence in multiple disciplines through technical innovations and/or solutions to complex situations. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.