America Votes · 1 week ago

Senior Data Analyst

Washington, DC

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$80K/yr - $90K/yr

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Responsibilities

Conduct analyses, lift up insights, and create data products that inform AV's electoral strategies and help build strategy alignment across the progressive coalition. Proactively look for ways we can use our data to inform strategy and support staff.

Evaluate and produce guidance about the predictive models we use in our voter contact work. This could look like adjusting or combining existing models, assessing the race equity impact of new models, and creating suggested cut points for targeting.

Stay up to date with research and best practices from across the political data space, continually grow your own analytics knowledge, and pitch in to pair program or write code for other data projects that could benefit from more advanced methods.

Qualification

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SQLData AnalysisRPythonStatisticsModeling TechniquesData InterpretationData CleaningData VisualizationPolitical Campaign ExperienceProgressive Organization ExperienceVoter File DataCandidate Support ModelsIssue Support ModelsProblem-SolvingCollaborationService-OrientedSupportiveMachine LearningPredictive ModelingGeospatial DataSpatial SQLSpatial Clustering AlgorithmsPolitically Relevant DatasetsPollingCensusFEC Donor Data

Required

Strong SQL skills - you should have worked in a data warehouse environment before and be comfortable writing complex queries with joins and aggregate functions.

Strong R or Python skills for data analysis - you should be comfortable cleaning messy data, running regressions, and creating simple visuals.

Solid understanding of statistics and basic modeling techniques; demonstrated experience using these methods to glean actionable insights from data.

Previous experience working on a political campaign or at a progressive organization, including experience working with voter file data and candidate or issue support models.

A service oriented approach to data work that prioritizes collaboration, supporting staff and partners, and building for the long term.