Policy Data Analyst

Summary

Join Recidiviz, a fast-growing organization dedicated to improving criminal justice outcomes, as their Policy Data Analyst. This full-time role, offering a compensation of $97,000, can be performed remotely or in New York City or Oakland. The position involves collaborating with various teams to analyze complex criminal justice data, develop policy analyses, and communicate findings to stakeholders. Success in this role requires strong communication, collaboration, and analytical skills, along with experience working with large datasets and SQL. Preferred qualifications include experience with public sector data, particularly in criminal justice, and familiarity with Recidiviz's data stack. Recidiviz offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, retirement plan, and wellness programs.

Requirements

• 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 complex datasets
• Professional work experience using SQL to work with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for more complex data extraction and transformation tasks
• High familiarity with Python, specifically Pandas package, for tasks such as statistical analysis and data visualization

Responsibilities

• 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 develop responsive, analytical methods that provide actionable insights for decision making

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 related to criminal justice
• Familiarity with our data stack, which includes Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas

Benefits

• 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 One Medical membership (depending on location)
• Partnership with Carrot 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 ClassPass credit for personal wellness
• Free mental health support via Talkspace