Hey AAPOR –

ACLU has an opening for a Survey Analyst position based in either New York, NY or Washington DC. Apologies for crossposting! Interested candidates should apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aclu/jobs/8160250002

Note: only candidates who apply through the listing will be considered.

Compensation is $95,666/annually. Details about responsibilities are below and also in the link above.

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Associate Director, Public Opinion Research, the Survey Analyst will be responsible for focused on qualitative and quantitative public opinion research projects to inform the way the ACLU approaches fundraising, advocacy, communications, and supporter engagement. This could include survey and question design, data analysis, stakeholder communication, and presentation. 

Your day to day

You will be part of the Engagement Analytics team, and work with team members across the Technology team, including analysts and data scientists, as well as stakeholders in our Fundraising, Digital, Political Advocacy, Legal, and Communications teams. Below is a sampling of projects you can expect to dive into:

·         Perform quantitative and statistical analysis of public opinion survey data

·         Prepare graphs, tables, and other visual presentations of data for written reports and presentations for internal use and public release.

·         Design questionnaires, program survey instruments, and write summary reports.

·         Design & build dashboards using survey data to guide decision making to improve engagement with the ACLU and build support for the ACLU’s mission.

·         Compile, analyze and interpret public and syndicated polling data.

·         Work with stakeholders in Communications, Digital, Political Advocacy, and other departments to track and report public attitudes related to ACLU and its activities.

·         Stay up-to-date about industry best practices through participation in industry professional groups, attending conferences, webinars, & other activities.

What you’ll bring

·         Familiarity with scoping opinion research projects and managing day-to-day project needs

·         Very strong quantitative, data analysis, and problem-solving skills.

·         Demonstrated experience visualizing survey data using BI software, like Tableau, InfoGram, or similar.

·         Intermediate understanding of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods and techniques.

·         Understanding of opinion research and evidence-based messaging best practices for ACLU issue areas, like free speech, immigrant rights, voting rights, and functional areas, like fundraising, advocacy research, or brand research.

·         Strong written and verbal communication; ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative results, visualize data, and summarize findings for a wide range of nontechnical stakeholders across various functions and levels of an organization. 

Preferred Qualifications

·         Experience using SPSS, Stata, R or other statistical package

·         Experience using statistical techniques using survey data, like MrP, MaxDiff or conjoint analysis.

·         Experience designing or moderating qualitative research efforts, like focus groups, QualBoards, or similar.

·         Experience running opinion research projects end-to-end, including project and stakeholder management.