Job Description

Title:                                                    Senior Analyst
Organization:                                     The Analyst Institute (www.analystinstitute.org)

The Analyst Institute assists organizations in building testing into their voter contact efforts, and is a clearinghouse for evidence-based best practices in progressive voter contact.

We have four functions.  First, we serve as a clearinghouse for evidence-based best practices in voter contact.  Second, we directly assist organizations involved in on-going research, especially when that research addresses topics of wide interest. Third, we ensure that the highest research priorities are pursued in the present election cycle. And fourth, we facilitate data analysts and related professionals in sharing and collaborating.

Responsibilities

The Senior Analyst(s) will work closely with partner organizations in designing, executing, and analyzing their voter contact evaluations.  These evaluations will usually involve randomized field experiments designed in the spring and implemented in the summer and fall.  Any given study will likely involve membership recruitment, voter registration, voter persuasion, and/or get-out-the-vote efforts. 

This person must have experience with field research, be self-motivated, and thrive in a dynamic start-up environment.  This person may work as a part-time consultant or as a full-time employee of the Analyst Institute.

Qualifications

• Experience with field research, especially field experiments.
• Detail oriented and highly organized.
• Experience working on, or with political campaigns.
• Ability to work well under tight deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Understanding of statistics and the methodology of political experiments and measurement.
• PhD or MA in social science.

Start Date:     Flexible, ASAP

Location:        Washington DC, McPherson Square 

Deadline:        4/11

Analyst Institute is an equal opportunity employer.  Salary is commensurate with experience.