KAP 2026-2027 - Academic Research Analyst - Institute of Humane Studies

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Junior
Data Science and Analytics
Stand Together

Stand Together

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that empowers changemakers to address the underlying issues of significant societal challenges in America, focusing on areas such as education, healthcare, and fostering bipartisan collaboration.

Diversified Consumer Services
251-1K

Description

  • Complete analytics projects submitted through established intake processes, including rapid-turnaround requests and longer-term analyses.
  • Partner with internal teams and external partners to clarify questions, confirm definitions, and deliver decision-ready outputs.
  • Maintain documentation of assumptions, definitions, and methodologies used in recurring or high-use analyses.
  • Analyze data on IHS activities and partner activity to measure effectiveness and impact.
  • Produce recurring reporting metrics and ad hoc reports, including manual validation when needed.
  • Support analysis of scholarly and research outputs across relevant disciplines for institutional reporting and impact narratives.
  • Extract, organize, and prepare datasets from CRM and other data systems for analysis and reporting.
  • Validate analytical datasets and outputs for accuracy and consistency and communicate data limitations clearly to stakeholders.
  • Coordinate with data owners when data issues affect reporting accuracy or reliability.
  • Identify opportunities to improve analysis workflows through repeatable queries, templates, dashboards, or lightweight automation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as social science, economics, public policy, statistics, data analytics, or a comparable discipline.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct data analysis and produce clear written analytical outputs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain findings to non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to manage multiple requests, prioritize work, and meet deadlines in a high-demand environment.
  • Ability to evaluate information from multiple sources, reconcile inconsistencies, and document assumptions.
  • Proficiency in Excel.
  • Experience with CRM systems, with Salesforce preferred.
  • Coursework or experience in statistics, quantitative methods, or program evaluation preferred.
  • Experience working with nonprofit, academic, or research datasets and/or impact measurement preferred.
  • Familiarity with SQL, Python, R, or similar tools used for analysis and reporting preferred.
  • Familiarity with academic research environments and classical liberal ideas preferred.
  • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
  • Ability to align with 8:30am–5:30pm ET working hours and travel occasionally, approximately two weeks per year.

Benefits

  • Primarily remote work arrangement.
  • Occasional travel for periodic in-office collaboration meetings, approximately two weeks per year.
  • Opportunity to work in a career accelerator program with experiential learning and a strong professional development curriculum.
  • Chance to work with partner organizations and internal stakeholders on mission-driven research and reporting.
  • Exposure to a broad set of analytical tools and technologies, including SQL, Python, R, Tableau, and artificial intelligence.

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