To reduce the nation’s dependence on jails, Vera's Beyond Jails Initiative is working in jurisdictions across the county to shift resources to community-driven solutions to help people thrive
Requirements
- Experience conducting analysis of quantitative data, ideally related to criminal justice or other social policy issues
- Comfort working with quantitative data, preparing data for analysis, conducting descriptive and statistical analysis
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
- Proficient in R/RStudio statistical package
- Professional, personal or academic engagement with issues of mass incarceration and mass criminalization
- Experience conducting research using different methods (quant analysis, analysis of interview and survey data, archival research, etc.)
- Proficiency in data visualization, database, and/or coding tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau and other statistical softwares (Stata, SPSS)
Responsibilities
- Support ongoing mixed methods research projects
- Review, organize, and analyze publicly available datasets
- Build skills in applied research, written communication, and systemic analysis
- Catalogue data sources and gather administrative, budget, and socio-economic datasets
- Document data cleaning processes, research procedures, and emerging findings
- Prepare and research summaries and brief reports for internal teams and external audiences
- Conduct data analysis and mixed methods research that supports ongoing analysis of the dynamics of jail incarceration and supervision
Other
- Commitment to advancing racial and gender equity in work
- Curiosity about emerging research and advocacy in the criminal justice space
- Strong writing skills
- College or graduate-level student or recent graduate
- Ability to work in a hybrid schedule and be in-office on an alternating schedule that generally amounts to 10 days per month
