Demonstrating technical and managerial excellence since 1963, Westat has emerged as one of the foremost statistical survey research organizations in the United States. Westat is an employee-owned corporation providing research services to agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments.
Westat's research, technical, and administrative staff of more than 1,900 is located at our headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, DC. Depending on the number of active projects at any time, up to several thousand data collection and processing staff work at Westat's survey processing facilities, at our Telephone Research Center facilities, and at data collection sites throughout the nation. Westat also maintains research offices near our clients in Bethesda, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Houston, Texas.
Research Staff - Westat's research staff comprises people with diverse training and experience in statistics, economics, social sciences, education, health sciences and many other fields that support Government research program areas. We hire expert statisticians, project directors, study managers, survey designers, research analysts, field operations directors, research assistants, and many other research professionals.
Computer Systems and Applications Staff - Westat's computer systems and applications development capabilities are of central importance to our work. These capabilities begin with our more than 450 systems analysts and programmers working mostly on Windows-based systems in our corporate network environment to create and maintain a wide variety of Web, database, other types of sophisticated applications and systems for our diverse research projects.
Administrative Staff - Westat's corporate infrastructure contributes greatly to the success of its contract work. Professionals with experience in a variety of fields such as accounting and contracts, editorial and word processing, facility operations, graphic arts, human resources, library services, PC and telecommunications, and security operations, among others, work to support Westat projects and corporate goals.
Data Collection Field Staff - Westat hires and trains in-person data collectors to work on specific projects that may require assignments to be completed at households, schools, a business, or a site office. Some projects require long distance travel. Westat has high standards for data collection staff to ensure that high quality, reliable data are being collected. Data collectors include field interviewers, listers, assessors, and abstractors.
Survey Processing Staff - Westat employs staff members in the Rockville, Maryland, area to perform administrative, data collection, and data processing duties on current Westat projects. Some assignments require bilingual skills with English being one of the languages spoken.
Telephone Data Collection Staff - Westat employs skilled telephone data collection staff who administer questionnaires over the telephone. Our studies are typically conducted in English but often require individuals who can also conduct interviews in other languages.
