(Internally Only) Role Overview: The Senior Research Analyst is responsible for working with and supporting CZ programs/policy teams to develop, manage, and refine research and data collection strategies that answer questions at the heart of policy and advocacy campaigns. The Senior Research Analyst will provide and/or oversee comprehensive analysis of campaign data and communicate findings in a compelling and actionable way to diverse audiences for over two dozen campaigns. Additionally, as a member of the Research & Data team, the Senior Research Analyst will conduct ad hoc analyses and work on discrete research projects with a range of partners. The Senior Research Analyst will report to the Senior Research Manager.
Description
(Internally Only)
Core Competencies:
- A personal commitment to dismantling oppressive, marginalizing systems;
- Dedication to upholding and modeling an organizational culture that is anti-racist, inclusive, and committed to a growth mindset;
- Clear understanding of and belief in the power of activism, organizing, and research to push for social change and racial justice;
- Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative organization;
- Exemplary written and oral communication skills;
- Ability to use multiple data sources/points to identify trends, compose straightforward analyses, and present data insights in an accessible format;
- Ability to design and deploy rapid-response analyses to support campaign managers’ plans to persuade decision-makers and legislators;
- Detail-oriented and demonstrates forethought to ensure high-quality data collection and research insights;
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Responsibilities:
- Support research design and implementation led by the Senior Research Manager, including creating data shells, writing and maintaining data collection instruments such as codebooks and methodology.
- Collect, clean, and structure data from multiple sources (administrative records, public records responses, researcher‑generated data) using tidy principles; maintain data dictionaries and metadata.
- Partner with campaign managers and analysts to implement optimal research design and data collection strategies for multiple campaigns that span from policy assessment to quasi-experimental.
- Perform quality assurance (QA): check data for completeness, consistency, and outliers; flag and resolve issues with teammates.
- Synthesize relevant and key research findings to support campaign policy and advocacy objectives through the development and maintenance of dashboards.
- Identify areas and strategies for automation within campaigns and communicate automation needs to CZ data science and engineering operations.
- Problem-solve and identify trends, themes, and common areas for improvement across CZ campaigns.
- Support the creation of instructional materials for staff training related to research methodology, data collection, and organizational technical tools.
- Manage the operations of one or more campaigns, and with the Senior Research Manager, design the campaign’s research program.
- Serve as a day-to-day “research point of contact” between campaigns and the Senior Research Manager, with an emphasis on methods and quality assurance.
Required Qualifications:
- 1 or more years of experience with quantitative and qualitative research projects, specifically implementing and documenting robust data-generation protocols and methodologies (may be non-traditional).
- 1 or more years of experience tidying, cleaning, reshaping, coding, merging, and/ or preparing administrative data files and researcher-generated data for analysis, with a preference for experience with applying the Tidy data framework.
- Demonstrated experience with data manipulation and/or statistical modeling using statistical software and programming languages like R, SQL, Python, and Stata.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree in social science or a similar analytical field (i.e., Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Law, etc), or equivalent non-traditional experience.
- Familiarity with retrieving and/or extracting information from relational databases via SQL and/or other automated coding mechanisms.
- Strong communication and organizational skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Familiarity and experience working within project management or product management frameworks.
- Experience managing relationships with different research stakeholders and funders.
About the Company
Campaign Zero is a research-driven organization started by activists to provide people with the information and tools they need to dismantle the institution of American policing and end police brutality. Campaign Zero encourages organizers, activists, and policymakers to focus on solutions with the strongest evidence of reducing police violence.