In A Nutshell
VoteShield (a project of Protect Democracy) seeks a highly motivated and civic-minded Data Scientist to join our growing team. VoteShield supports election officials in maintaining complete and accurate voter data in order to protect free and fair elections for all qualified voters. As a member of this world-class analysis and engineering team, you will analyze public voter registration data, work with election administrators, support Protect Democracy on a variety of data projects, and grow your technical skills.
Responsibilities
- Review and analyze changes in public voter registration data and absentee ballot data in order to provide election officials with timely insights and answers to data questions;
- Write and present data reports that are accessible to the team, partners, and election administrators;
- Conduct legal/policy research as needed to provide context for your reports;
- Contribute to research that utilizes VoteShield’s unique datasets and skills to assess election administration policies;
- Partner with colleagues across Protect Democracy to enhance their work with data analyses, custom tools, automation, and more;
- Expand and enrich our current data with external datasets;
- Create, refine, and document your standards for reporting, and compare and collaborate to develop best practices for the team;
- Build and maintain relationships with current and prospective partners in the election community.
Skillset
- Interest in public or civic data and commitment to data-driven and non-partisan analysis;
- Ability to communicate a clear story with data, both in writing and presenting, that describes the context, insights, conclusions, and open questions;
- Proficiency in Python;
- A relevant bachelors degree, or equivalent experience;
- Growth mindset and comfortability with an open and transparent culture that values feedback up, down and sideways;
- Excellent critical thinking skills, demonstrated by enthusiasm for investigating novel problems and exercising sound judgment about how to get to optimal solutions;
- Rigorous attention to detail and the highest standards for excellence in execution;
- Ability to track, prioritize, and, where necessary, triage work in order to use time in the most efficient and productive way;
- Comfort working with small teams, proactively working to build the organizational culture and figure out what’s needed to move your work forward.
