Senior Data Analyst

Summary

Join The States Project (TSP) as a Senior Data Analyst and contribute to impactful quantitative research projects. Analyze electoral, legislative, campaign, and caucus data to inform strategic decisions. Collaborate with colleagues to collect data, manage the central database, conduct analyses, build data exploration tools, and support state legislative campaigns. The role involves program evaluation, data processing automation, data pipeline building, and dashboard maintenance. You will communicate complex findings to non-technical audiences and create data visualizations. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 2-4 years of professional experience
• 2-3 years of prior data, targeting, polling, or statistics experience within a structured environment (e.g., campaigns, advocacy, non-profit, etc.)
• Experience leveraging data and analytics to drive decisions in the political arena and high standards for success
• Strong experience coding in SQL, Python, or R
• Familiarity with large scale relational databases
• Familiarity with version control software
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Clear communication skills
• Ability to create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence

Responsibilities

• Conduct program evaluation and analyses with several data sources, including paid media data, survey data, organizing/field data, and other program data
• Write code to automate data processing tasks and to conduct statistical analyses
• Collecting and analyzing data that tracks progress to program goals and strategic imperatives
• Conduct ad hoc research projects involving complex datasets
• Design informative data visualizations – both static and interactive – that communicate complex findings to non-technical audiences
• Equip team members to support state legislative campaigns in their ability to incorporate evidence-driven best practices into their programs
• Build data pipelines to automate extracting, transforming, and loading data into our central database
• Build data pipelines to assist with program evaluation and meta-analyses
• Collaborate with the Analytics team and consultants on the maintenance and development of the 99 Chamber dashboard
• Aggregate data and summarize findings in digestible ways for other stakeholders
• Other duties as necessary in service of TSP program and the Analytics team

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert-level with one or more of the following: SQL, R, python
• Experience with high level analyses, setting metrics, and randomized control trials
• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• 75% paid coverage of medical, dental, and vision for individuals and dependents
• Basic life insurance
• An employee assistance program
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) matching
• Annual professional development
• Wellness
• Work-from-home stipends
• Paid family leave