Research Manager
Progressive Data Jobs
Remote
Posted on Dec 17, 2024
Position Summary
Analyst Institute is looking for a Research Manager to join our Research Team. You’ll be part of a close-knit, cutting-edge team of experts with backgrounds in social, behavioral, and data science working together to conduct research to support our partners in the progressive movement and translate that research into actionable insights to inform their work.
We’re looking to fill the Research Manager role as soon as possible. We will be accepting applications through January 13th.
The Role
Research Managers (RMs) act as the principal investigators and project managers at Analyst Institute. They engage with our partner organizations across the progressive movement to develop quantitative research that informs their work on a wide variety of subjects: get-out-the-vote efforts, voter registration, organizing and power-building, and more. We are seeking an RM who wants to apply their skills in data, statistics, politics, and advocacy to some of the biggest questions in progressive politics.
If you have a deep understanding of research design, strong project management skills, familiarity with statistical software and analysis, and you can communicate technical information to practitioners, this could be a great role for you.
As a Research Manager, you’ll:
- Design research projects, including randomized controlled trials and other types of quantitative research, in partnership with progressive organizations to meet those partners’ research goals.
- Communicate in non-technical terms the potential benefits, drawbacks, and challenges of various research designs, and work with partners to identify the best design for their research goals.
- Connect with partner organizations to understand their perspectives and research objectives.
- Manage simultaneous projects, often at varying stages of development, from design to implementation to analysis.
- Communicate to both internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects’ success.
- Analyze real-world data using R, SQL, and other tools.
- Visualize a variety of quantitative analyses, including non-experimental observational analyses.
- Contribute to the maintenance of Analyst Institute’s collaborative R codebase.
Qualifications
The following encompasses many of the skills and experiences we consider for Research Managers, but we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.
You should be someone who has skills/experience in:
- Research: Has relevant work or post-graduate education experience conducting all parts of the research process, including research question development, study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting, especially related to social science questions. Has an understanding of statistics and methods of social scientific measurement and causal inference.
- Analytics: Has worked with data and statistics using R in a personal, academic, or professional capacity.
- Project Management: Highly organized and able to provide hands on guidance and oversight on a daily basis across multiple, concurrent, time-sensitive projects, ensuring timely completion of work.
- Detail-orientation: Driven to complete high-quality work with limited errors.
- Communication: Has strong written and verbal communication skills and can communicate with varied audiences including data scientists and practitioners.
- Commitment to equity and inclusion: Values diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and recognizes the role race, gender, and other identities play in political behavior.
- Relationship-building: Able to connect with a wide range of people in the progressive community. Collaborates creatively and respectfully with people across cultures and backgrounds.
- Public speaking: Is comfortable with running meetings and delivering presentations, including one-on-one and small group settings.
We’re looking to fill the Research Manager role as soon as possible. We will be accepting applications through January 13th.