Western Psychological Services
Western Region Data Collection Specialist
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Torrance, CA
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Full-Time
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$85K - $90K
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Other
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April 30th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Western Region is hiring a Data Collection Specialist. The role involves administering assessments to various populations, focusing on hard-to-reach clinical and standardization cases, and building relationships with schools and clinics to support data collection efforts.
Highlights
- Administer assessments to hard-to-reach populations including clinical and low socio-economic status groups.
- Recruit participants and maintain strong relationships with local schools, clinics, and organizations.
- Pilot assessment materials and provide feedback to improve data collection processes.
- Travel up to 10-15% to facilitate data collection activities.
- Master’s level professional in related fields such as School Psychology or Speech Language Pathology.
- Minimum two years of full-time assessment administration experience post-Master’s, preferably in schools.
- Experience with a variety of performance tests and familiarity with observational or structured interview assessments is highly desirable.
- Must reside in the Western region of the U.S. with access to diverse clinical and minority populations.
- Relationships with clinicians, practitioners, schools, or clinics serving populations with intellectual disability, anxiety disorders, or autism required.
- Spanish bilingual skills are highly preferred.
Western Region Data Collection Specialist Full Description
Western Region Data Collection Specialist
Torrance, CA, US
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Salary Range:
$85,000.00 To $90,000.00 Annually
Job Title: Data Collection Specialist
Reports to: Sr. Dir. Research Ops
About the position…
The Data Collection Specialist works in conjunction with the Sr. Director of Research Operations, Project Directors, Data Collection Specialists, and other research staff to collect standardization and clinical data in the development of our assessment products.
Their role is to collect data by administering our assessments in standardization development to key populations (e.g., representative standardization samples and applicable clinical groups), build and maintain positive data collection relationships, and provide user feedback on assessment administration. The primary focus will be on collecting hard-to-reach clinical cases (e.g., Intellectual Disability), administering validity assessments (e.g., Weschlers), and collecting hard-to-reach standardization cases (e.g., low SES, Hispanic).
Our ideal Data Collection Specialist enjoys administering assessments to a wide range of populations, has extensive assessment experience administering performance tests and rating scales, and has strong people connections and relationships built with school districts with diverse populations as well as clinics and organizations serving varied populations.
The Data Collection Specialist has excellent interpersonal skills and embodies strong drive and determination to seek out relationships with schools, organizations, and clinics in order to obtain the cases we need for our data collection projects. Receiving a “No” should not deter you from reaching out to more settings. For this position, you must have the confidence of a clear go-getter, the flexibility to handle multiple projects, and the desire to learn and help develop new assessments.
Responsibilities Include:
- Pilot all assessment materials prior to start of data collection studies to provide feedback and recommendations for ease of use
- Administer performance tests for all studies and facilitate completion of rating scales.
- Recruit participants for studies, particularly from hard-to-reach populations (e.g., low SES, low incidence clinical populations (e.g., intellectually disabled, visually impaired)).
- Build and maintain relationships with local (i.e., local to your geographic location) schools and organizations; provide feedback to continuously improve data collection processes for internal R&D team and contracted data collectors
- Travel as required to facilitate data collection
Qualifications:
- Master’s level assessment professional (e.g., School Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Speech Language Pathology)
- Membership and participation in professional organizations/associations
- Minimum two years administering assessments full time post Master’s (preferably in a school setting)
- Broad assessment experience administering a variety of performance tests (e.g., cognitive, achievement, language) required, experience administering observational (e.g., ADOS-2) or structured interview (e.g., ADI-R) assessments highly desirable
- Must be located in either the Western region (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming)
- Local access to the following hard-to-obtain cases:
- Racial and ethnic minorities
- Low socio-economic status populations (i.e., highest parental education of high school diploma or less)
- Clinical populations (e.g., deaf and hard of hearing, sensory processing disorders, intellectual disability)
- Must have access to clinical populations or relationships built with clinicians, practitioners, and clinics that serve individuals with intellectual disability, anxiety disorders, and autism
- Knowledge of clinical or school market desired
- Has relationships with area schools, organizations, and/or clinics
- Is comfortable going into new situations and new settings
- Enjoys building new relationships, problem solving, and overcoming obstacles
- Spanish Bilingual highly preferred
- 10-15% travel
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