In A Nutshell
Deliver Urban Institute’s vital research to an expanding audience and explore the possibilities of telling stories with data
Responsibilities
- Develop creative solutions to communicate complex research findings to the Urban Institute’s audiences (including policy makers, national and local journalists, and the general public).
- Collaborate with researchers and communications staff (designers, developers, writers, and editors) on the conception and construction of interactive data visualizations.
- Create and refine static data visualizations for a range of digital and print publications based on our comprehensive communications standards.
- Grow and refine our data visualization practices and standards—exploring new technologies, developing new style guidelines, or designing and building new templates.
Skillset
- A strong portfolio of data visualization projects, 2 years of combined academic and professional experience.
- Bachelor’s or Masters degree in computer science, journalism, statistics, information science/visualization, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Familiarity and interest in public policy topics and storytelling with data.
- Front-end web development using semantic HTML, modern CSS, and JavaScript.
- Creating interactive graphics in d3.js.
- Using Git, Github and version control.
- Cleaning and analyzing data (using R, Quarto, Python, Ruby, Stata, or others).
- Exposure to third-party charting tools such as Datawrapper.