Research Manager

Overview

Analyst Institute is looking for a Research Manager to join our Research Team. You’ll be part of a close-knit, cutting-edge team of experts with backgrounds in social, behavioral, and data science working together to conduct research to support our partners in the progressive movement and translate that research into actionable insights to inform their work.

We’re looking to fill the Research Manager role as soon as possible. We will be accepting applications through January 13th.

The Role
Research Managers (RMs) act as the principal investigators and project managers at Analyst Institute. They engage with our partner organizations across the progressive movement to develop quantitative research that informs their work on a wide variety of subjects: get-out-the-vote efforts, voter registration, organizing and power-building, and more. We are seeking an RM who wants to apply their skills in data, statistics, politics, and advocacy to some of the biggest questions in progressive politics.

If you have a deep understanding of research design, strong project management skills, familiarity with statistical software and analysis, and you can communicate technical information to practitioners, this could be a great role for you.

As a Research Manager, you’ll:

• Design research projects, including randomized controlled trials and other types of quantitative research, in partnership with progressive organizations to meet those partners’ research goals.
• Communicate in non-technical terms the potential benefits, drawbacks, and challenges of various research designs, and work with partners to identify the best design for their research goals.
• Connect with partner organizations to understand their perspectives and research objectives.
• Manage simultaneous projects, often at varying stages of development, from design to implementation to analysis.
• Communicate to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects’ success.
• Analyze real-world data using R, SQL, and other tools.
• Visualize a variety of quantitative analyses, including non-experimental observational analyses.
• Contribute to the maintenance of Analyst Institute’s collaborative R codebase.

Qualifications
The following encompasses many of the skills and experiences we consider for Research Managers, but we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.

You should be someone who has skills/experience in:

• Research: Has relevant work or post-graduate education experience conducting all parts of the research process, including research question development, study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting, especially related to social science questions. Has an understanding of statistics and methods of social scientific measurement and causal inference.
• Analytics: Has worked with data and statistics using R in a personal, academic, or professional capacity.
• Project Management: Highly organized and able to provide hands on guidance and oversight on a daily basis across multiple, concurrent, time-sensitive projects, ensuring timely completion of work.
• Detail-orientation: Driven to complete high-quality work with limited errors.
• Communication: Has strong written and verbal communication skills and can communicate with varied audiences including data scientists and practitioners.
• Commitment to equity and inclusion: Values diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and recognizes the role race, gender, and other identities play in political behavior.
• Relationship-building: Able to connect with a wide range of people in the progressive community. Collaborates creatively and respectfully with people across cultures and backgrounds.
• Public speaking: Is comfortable with running meetings and delivering presentations, including one-on-one and small group settings.

Though not necessary, we are interested in people with the following experiences (please be sure to note these in your resume and/or question responses): 

• Advanced knowledge of methods of social scientific measurement, including non-experimental research designs and methodologies.
• Expertise with R; for example, you have created your own packages or contributed to open-source packages.
• SQL, such as executing and optimizing basic queries.
• Experience working with historically marginalized groups or experience studying racial and ethnic politics.
• Experience working or volunteering with political campaigns, community-based organizations, or other progressive groups or similar organizations.
• Knowledge about existing research and theory related to political power building, political behavior, or political psychology.
• Prior work in progressive data and analytics, particularly with voter file data.

Logistics  

• Location: Our staff works remotely in various states across the U.S., and our internal culture fully supports remote collaboration. This position may be asked to travel periodically for in-person trainings, important convenings, and team-building activities. Willingness to travel is required for this role approximately a few times per year.
• Start date: We are looking for this position to start in March 2024, but potentially earlier. This is a full-time, exempt position.
• Compensation range: Salary commensurate with experience and skill set, from $70,000 to $90,000.
• Benefits: These include 100% premium-covered health care and 99% covered dental and vision care, generous paid time off, 401(k) matching, disability and life insurance, twelve weeks paid parental leave (including for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child), home office stipend, and professional development stipends for self-directed growth.
• For more information: See some of the reasons you may want to work here and visit our website for more information about the work we do.
• To apply: Click here to fill out an application.

People of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, disabled people, and members of other commonly underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply, even if you don’t meet all of the criteria.

To ensure equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Analyst Institute will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Analyst Institute does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship, size, weight, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including hiring, job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination, and access to benefits and training. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot provide sponsorship for those requiring visas or work permits.

AI is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations as determined through an interactive process. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact accessibility@analystinstitute.org.