We design and quickly mainstream field-tested voter engagement innovations to help Democrats win. We do this because we believe that an innovative progressive movement will build a more equitable and just society.

Our organization was born in the wake of the 2016 election as a grassroots, volunteer-led initiative. Over the next four years, our work took off and we became a team of 30 full-time staff in 2020. From 2016 to 2020 our work focused singularly on designing and quickly mainstreaming field-tested voter engagement innovations that spark non-activists to mobilize their friends to vote. We succeeded in developing and quickly mainstreaming a suite of elegant, user-friendly and non-proprietary innovations that RCTs suggest yielded over 15,000 net votes in historically disenfranchised communities. As one example, we designed and quickly mainstreamed ‘polling place vote tripling’. Dozens of major partners used this innovation in 2020, including When We All Vote and Fair Count, ultimately resulting in over 10,000 canvasser-hours of polling place vote tripling that produced tens-of-thousands of relational conversations. This innovation was featured in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

We are hiring a Senior Associate: Data & Evaluation to be a member of our Research Department, working on our partisan and nonpartisan research initiatives. The Senior Associate: Data & Evaluation will work closely with the Deputy Director of Research: Data & Evaluation to (i) design and implement experiments, (ii) analyze data and draw conclusions about results, and (iii) support the programmatic team’s data needs (such as data cleaning and visualization for our partner organizations).

Questions your work might answer include: 

- From a quantitative impact perspective, which voter engagement problems should we be working on and why? 

- Does collecting vote tripling pledges on a college campus increase voter turnout among “triplees”?

- What text message script is most effective at getting people to pledge to remind three friends to vote? 

- What training content is most effective at increasing partners’ recall and comprehension of vote tripling tactics? 

- How might we design a mini-experiment to stress-test our implementation and evaluation strategy for a brand new innovation?

The Senior Associate: Data & Evaluation will have a background in statistical methods and evaluation. They will be a self-starter comfortable with the ambiguous, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment of a startup. They’ll have strong attention to detail and be driven by a desire to innovate. Given the complex nature of the questions we are working on, the ideal candidate will be relentlessly curious and be able to communicate complex research data in a way that is digestible and actionable to people who know nothing about research.

We are dedicated to creating an organization that reflects the diversity of the country we serve. We strongly encourage women, people of color, and others who are underrepresented in campaigns to apply.

**Please note that due to the nature of our work we are unable to hire any individuals who aren’t US Citizens, Legal Permanent Residents (Green Card holders), or DACA recipients.**

RESPONSIBILITIES

• This role is on the data and evaluation side of the Research Team, which means you'll work on things like:


• Supporting the design and implementation of all VoteTripling.org studies and tests
• Monitoring the implementation of field experiments, proactively identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies
• Conducting data analysis; collecting, cleaning and analyzing large, messy data sets
• Interpreting findings and drafting conclusions, based on data analysis 
• Supporting research team members in the design, execution and analysis of qualitative research; including interviews, focus groups, observation, and user experience research
• Creating detailed project plans for experimentation and evaluation of VoteTripling products
• Tracking and executing multiple work streams across projects simultaneously, sticking to timelines, proactively identifying and mitigating roadblocks, and ensuring all deadlines are met
• Supporting our Partner Success Team with their data and evaluation needs, including supporting partners with data cleaning and interpreting the results of evaluations 
• Working with internal team to ensure all staff, particularly non-research team members, have the appropriate level of knowledge about our programs' evidence 
• Drafting internal communications, explaining the research team's work and findings from experiments and evaluations 
• Drafting external facing products (reports, memos, white papers, etc) that synthesize and effectively communicate our experimentation and evaluation work
• Identifying and helping develop best practices and tools for our data and evaluation work (e.g., evaluation protocol templates, data sharing and security protocols)
• Supporting partnerships with external evaluators, providing them with datasets, assisting with cleaning and analysis when appropriate

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILL SETS, & VALUES

• We’re looking for candidates with the skills and expertise listed below. But we’re also looking for people who are keen to learn and develop their skills so don’t worry if you don’t hit every point! We are open to providing training where necessary.


Requirements For The Role
• Bachelor's with 4-6 years of experience OR Masters with 3+ years of experience in including (but not limited to) data analysis, data science, program evaluation, applied quantitative research methods, economics, math, computer science
• Intermediate/advanced fluency in STATA and/or R
• Experience with power and sample size calculations and randomization
• Experience running and interpreting regression analyses
• Experience cleaning and working with raw administrative data and messy datasets 
• Knowledge of randomized control trials, experimental design, and survey research
• Experience working on complex projects and an ability to balance work across multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of ethical and equitable research best practices 
• Strong communication skills demonstrated by the ability to write and speak clearly and succinctly about experimental research and the results of that research 


Requirements For The Organization
• Commitment to working with and for teams of diverse individuals, and, through our work, to reducing disparities in whose voice is heard in the electoral space 
• Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity and ability to build relationships and collaborate across lines of difference
• Ability to work collaboratively across a variety of teams and stakeholders
• Commitment to the mission of the organization to design and quickly mainstream field-tested voter engagement innovations to help Democrats win
• A positive attitude - VoteTripling.org is a start-up and we are looking for a candidate who is adaptable and interested in working in a dynamic, mission-driven environment


Preferred but not required
• Knowledge of core behavioral science findings
• Experience working for a political campaign or voter turnout organization
• Familiarity with Civis Platform, SQL, SMS platforms such as Thrutext or Hustle; calling platforms such as ThruTalk, and relational organizing apps such as Outvote 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Compensation. Based on years of relevant work experience, between $75,000-$92,000.
• Paid time off: Roughly 40 days of paid time off each year. Specifically, all federal holidays are PTO, each employee accrues two days of PTO per month (capping out at 24), the days from December 24 to January 1 are PTO, and a day of PTO when your birthday is on a workday. 
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental benefits: Our medical plan option covers you with a generous PPO plan with a $1,000 deductible at no cost to you. In addition, we offer generous paid family medical leave / parental leave.
• Retirement benefits: After 3 months of service, we automatically contribute 4% of your base salary to your retirement account every pay period (2x per month).

REASONS TO LOVE THIS ROLE

• Opportunity to build a startup. In many ways, VoteTripling.org is starting a new startup in 2021, so we hope you are excited about being scrappy, working across multiple departments, and learning as we grow!
• Novel blend of research<>program. Research departments are often siloed from programmatic departments. That’s not the case at VoteTripling.org. Our research team works hand-in-hand with our programmatic team to design, evaluate and scale innovations that address the most critical challenges facing the progressive movement.