Job Description:

• 1) Plans, organizes, and conducts research for use in understanding social problems and for planning and carrying out social welfare programs: Develops research designs on basis of existing knowledge and evolving theory.

• 2) Constructs and tests methods of data collection.

• 3) Collects information and makes judgments through observation, interview, and review of documents.

• 4) Analyzes and evaluates data.

• 5) Writes reports containing descriptive, analytical, and evaluative content.

• 6) Interprets methods employed and findings to individuals within agency and community.

• 7) May direct work of statistical clerks, statisticians, and others.

• 8) May collaborate with research workers in other disciplines.

• 9) May be employed in voluntary or governmental social welfare agencies, community welfare councils, and schools of social work.