The States Project: Data Science Consultant

Remote

$8,000-$10,000 / Monthly

The States Project

Data

Non-Profit

N/A

https://jobs.lever.co/statesproject/495730b8-839c-43ae-986e-7cbad7120119

We are seeking a Data Science Consultant to support the Political team in quantitative research projects that analyze electoral, campaign and caucus data to help inform key decisions during the 2024 election year. The ideal candidate should be a self-starter who loves digging into data and extract key insights with the ability to communicate findings effectively.

This position will have the opportunity to work with members of the Political team to collect campaign data from a variety of data sources, manage and maintain our central database, conduct original analyses to answer actionable research questions, build and maintain tools to explore insights, and help the Political team make key strategic decisions based on this data. 

### **What You Will Do**
- Write code to automate data processing tasks and to conduct statistical analyses 
- Build data pipelines to automate extracting, transforming, and loading data into our central database 
- Conduct ad hoc research projects involving electoral or campaign datasets
- Design informative data visualizations – both static and interactive – that communicate complex findings to non-technical audiences
- Aggregate data and summarize findings in digestible ways for other stakeholders
### **Requirements/Deliverables**
- Analyses and data work to inform resourcing and programmatic decisions, including:
-through data engineering tasks like data wrangling (using SQL)
-through statistical modeling (using Python or R)
-through data visualization techniques (including Tableau or similar data visualization software)
- Reports and analyses related to election forecasting or causal inference/field experiments
- Political science and electoral tactics research and analysis
- Development of and input into “explainer” documents explaining technical analyses to non-technical audiences
- Must be able to independently manage time and tasks associated with a fast-paced organization
- Work will require a highly collaborative approach, passion for and alignment with the organizations’ mission, vision, and theory of change, and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging