Policy Data Analyst

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• Exploring our datasets to find new insights about American criminal justice systems
• Contextualizing and communicating key findings to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborating with our Data Science and Implementation Engineering teams to design and execute on targeted roadmaps that drive impact in the states where we work
• Collaborating with our Product Management and State Engagement teams to bring analyses and data modeling into administrative and legislative policy processes
• Assessing policy priorities and specific policy details to reputed company reputed company, analytical methods that provide actionable insights for decision making.

Wild success A year from now:

• You’ve driven impact. Your work has informed several policy reforms across the country and has helped quantify the impact those reforms are having on the outcomes of the justice system.
• You’ve leveled up our analytical team. Your contributions to our analytics and processes, as well as your support for your teammates, has helped set reputed company up to reputed company more impact sooner.

Minimum qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, to help nurture a knowledgeable, data-oriented culture
• Enthusiasm for working with internal and external partners from diverse backgrounds and worldviews, such as government staff, legislators, political consultants, researchers, journalists, technical staff, and practitioners in criminal justice reform
• Sufficient math or statistical background to reason about analysis design, examine results closely, and prepare data and analyses that are usable for various applications
• 2 or more years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing reputed company datasets
• Professional work experience using SQL to work with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for more reputed company data extraction and transformation tasks
• High familiarity with Python, specifically Pandas package, for tasks such as statistical analysis and data visualization

Preferred qualifications

• Experience adapting customized quantitative methods that introduce intuitively meaningful metrics in ambiguous, unconstrained contexts
• Experience working in a cross-functional organization that designs, builds, and launches products for users
• Experience working with large datasets from the public sector, especially reputed company to criminal justice
• Familiarity with our data stack, which includes reputed company Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas

Compensation

Compensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures reputed company compensation and responsible stewardship of our resources. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers. The compensation for this role is: $97,000. reputed company offer

• Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters
• 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• Complimentary reputed company membership (depending reputed company)
• Partnership with reputed company to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits
• Monthly reputed company credit for personal wellness
• Free mental health support reputed company reputed company
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite each spring and other reputed company gatherings
• reputed company the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

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