Data Analyst
Role Overview
The Data Analytics and Research Team analyzes justice-system data, evaluates policies and interventions, and produces research to improve New York City's criminal justice system.
The team uses interviews and data feeds from police, courts, and corrections to study trends, programs, and outcomes.
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About CJA
The New York City Criminal Justice Agency is a nonprofit service and research organization operating in partnership with the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice.
CJA provides pretrial services and maintains data used for research on arrestee characteristics, case processing, court outcomes, and criminal justice policy.
Program Summary
The Data Analytics and Research Team analyzes justice-system data, evaluates policies and interventions, and produces research to improve New York City's criminal justice system.
The team uses interviews and data feeds from police, courts, and corrections to study trends, programs, and outcomes.
Position Summary
The Data Analyst supports applied research and analytics by defining study populations, preparing administrative data, conducting analyses, and producing tables, visualizations, and written products.
The analyst collaborates across CJA, contributes to analytic planning, conducts quality assurance, documents methods and limitations, and supports accurate and reproducible findings.
Primary Responsibilities
- Prepare, clean, validate, and analyze data using R or Python and SQL.
- Conduct descriptive and exploratory analyses and contribute to reproducible analytic workflows.
- Develop dashboards, visualizations, tables, presentations, and written summaries for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support research projects by defining questions, developing measures, conducting analyses, reviewing results, and updating prior work.
- Analyze programs, operations, trends, and outcomes to address policy and operational questions.
- Manage tasks and timelines, communicate progress and issues, and balance multiple projects.
Qualifications
- Minimum of two years of experience in data analysis, applied research, program evaluation, public policy research, or a related field.
- A master's degree in a quantitative field is preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proficiency in R or Python and experience using SQL with relational databases.
- Strong descriptive statistics, applied research, data wrangling, and data storytelling capabilities.
- Ability to collaborate, manage multiple assignments, troubleshoot problems, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with APIs, JSON, CSV, Parquet, computational notebooks, visualizations, dashboards, and policy briefs.
Additional Expertise
- Familiarity with regression or other statistical methods is a plus.
- Familiarity with reproducible pipelines and version-controlled workflows such as Git, GitHub, and CI/CD is preferred.
- Knowledge of or demonstrated interest in criminal justice policy, pretrial justice, courts, or related public-policy issues is desirable.
Salary
- The salary range is $95,000 to $106,000 per year.
Hours
- The schedule is 9 AM to 5 PM, Tuesday through Thursday in person, with Monday and Friday worked from home.
Benefits
- Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, mental health and wellness support, four weeks of vacation, paid holidays, retirement matching, and professional development opportunities.
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