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The Vera Institute of Justice seeks to transform the criminal legal system to ensure fairness and equity, particularly by reshaping the role of prosecutors and reducing mass incarceration. The Senior Research Associate will support this mission by conducting applied quantitative research to inform policy changes and improve justice outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, data science, or social science or related fields with training in statistics and social science research methods; or relevant work or academic history.
• Quantitative research experience, ideally with administrative data not originally collected for quantitative analysis (i.e., incomplete, or even unstructured data, requiring extensive cleaning and reformatting).
• Proficiency with at least one statistical software package (R preferred), data visualization and presentation.
• Deep knowledge of the relationship between prosecutorial processes and the data that track them.
• Solid presentation skills – developing and delivering – conveying sophisticated quantitative findings through data visualizations to a non-technical audience.
• Solid writing skills, particularly for technical and training documents.
• Staff development and training.

Responsibilities

• Lead applied quantitative research efforts with selected prosecutors’ offices around the country.
• Analyze data from prosecutors’ administrative case management systems and from community-based organizations conducting diversion programs.
• Make administrative data requests of government agencies and non-governmental organizations or non-profits.
• Manage data construction and data delivery with partners who may not have the relevant expertise to assess data needs or data quality.
• Compile, clean, and document disparate, disconnected, or semi-structured data files into master datasets for analysis.
• Develop thoughtful analyses of data through the production of discipline-relevant metrics, univariate, bivariate, and multivariate statistics.
• Provide technical assistance to prosecutors’ offices and community-based organizations leading diversion programming to improve their fluency with, and ability to use, data in their criminal justice reform efforts.

Other

• Bachelor's degree and 4 plus years of relevant experience. In lieu of degree requirement, applicable work or life experience may be considered.
• Relevant work experience in criminal justice, criminal legal reform, or social justice fields.
• Hybrid work schedule with in-office presence generally amounting to 10 days per month.
• Ability to work in Brooklyn, NY, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, CA, or New Orleans, LA.
• Experience with the justice system—either you were yourself in the system, have a family member who is/was in the system, you worked in the system, or you worked to change the system.