Data and Research Assistant, Supervised Release - New York, United States - Center for Justice Innovation

Center for Justice Innovation

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New York, United States

2 weeks ago

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Description

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation (formerly the Center for Court Innovation) is a non-profit organization that works with communities and justice systems to advance equity, increase safety, and help individuals and communities thrive.

The Center's goal is to identify and resolve as early as possible the challenges that bring people into the criminal and civil legal systems.

It does this in a number of ways—by developing and running programs that reduce the need for incarceration and enhance economic opportunity, conducting original research to identify what works, and sharing what we learn from our programming and research with those seeking to transform the justice system around the world.

The Center is an 800-employee, $100 million nonprofit that accomplishes its vision through three pillars of work: creating and scaling operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performing original research to determine what works (and what doesn't), and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to justice reformers around the world.

Operating Programs

The Center's operating programs, including the award-winning Red Hook Community Justice Center and Midtown Community Justice Center, test new ideas, solve difficult problems, and attempt to achieve systemic change within the justice system.

Our projects include community-based violence prevention programs, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based initiatives that reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration and promote positive individual and family change.

Through this programming, we have produced tangible results like safer streets, reduced incarceration, and improved neighborhood perceptions of justice.

Research

The Center's research teams are staffed with social scientists, data analysts, and lawyers who are academically-trained or have lived experience and who conduct research in the U.S.

and globally on diverse criminal-legal system and justice issues.

Their work includes evaluating programs and policies; conducting exploratory, community-based studies; and providing research translation and strategic planning for system actors.

The Center has published studies on topics including court and jail reform, intimate partner violence, restorative justice, gun violence, reentry, sixth amendment rights, and progressive prosecution.

The research teams strive to make their work meaningful and actionable to the communities they work with, policymakers, and practitioners.

Policy & Expert Assistance

The Center provides hands-on, planning and implementation assistance to a wide range of jurisdictions in areas of reform such as problem-solving courts (e.g., community courts, treatment courts, domestic violence courts), tribal justice, reducing incarceration and the use of fines/fees and reducing crime and violence.

Our current expert assistance takes many forms, including help with analyzing data, strategic planning and consultation, policy guidance, and hosting site visits to its operating programs in the New York City area.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Data Analytics and Applied Research (DAAR) team collaborates with the Center's operating programs to inform new and existing programming through data tracking, analysis, evaluation, and surveys.

The work frequently includes measures such as case outcomes and program impacts, case processing, community needs and concerns, and perceptions of justice-involved individuals.

The team also provides technical assistance to community court and diversion programs across the country.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Assist on survey instrument design;
Conduct interviews and focus groups (in Spanish and English) with program participants and staff;
Provide administrative support to special research projects;
Clean, recode, and conduct basic data analysis in support of special research projects involving quantitative and qualitative methodologies;
Conduct literature reviews and secondary research or data analyses to better understand new problem areas and opportunities;
Guide colleagues through insights from research and fieldwork;
Translate findings into action by visualizing complex systems and prototyping potential solutions;
Oversee up to two parttime research assistants working on special research projects;
Work with DAAR colleagues to draft reports, factsheets, policy memos, and produce infographics, data dashboards, website content, and presentations for a range of audiences;
Assist with technical documentation of internal databases and other data collection tools;
Assist with development and implementation of data trainings for frontline program staff;
Additional relevant tasks, as needed.

Position Type:
Temporary position for 6-8 months.

Position Location:
Midtown Manhattan with some travel to Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Compensation:
The compensation range for this position is $ $35.71