UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

The ACLU seeks an Undergraduate or Graduate Analytics Engineering Intern in the Technology-Analytics Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY.

The Team:

ACLU Analytics partners with teams across the organization to enable the ACLU to make smart, evidence-based decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our team's work ranges from social science research for litigation & advocacy, to analysis & reporting for fundraising and engagement, to building and maintaining our data infrastructure. We strive to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of data and technology. This includes maintaining our privacy and security standards, pushing for transparent data practices from government and corporate actors, and helping to steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency.

The ACLU Analytics team is composed of four pods – Analytics Engineering, Fundraising & Engagement, Legal & Quantitative Research, and Affiliates & Advocacy. The Analytics Engineering pod maintains a centralized Redshift data warehouse to enable supporter outreach and engagement. You will get the opportunity to work with our membership/donation data, polling/surveys, voter files, web, and other data. We also provide engineering infrastructure support for litigation and advocacy efforts at ACLU National and our 53 affiliates nationwide.

What You'll Do:

Our interns will support the Analytics team’s data infrastructure. Potential projects include: building process improvements to data pipelines, automating manual data quality processes, exploring new tools to add to our analytics engineering stack, and automating web scraping for civil liberties cases.

Your Day to Day:

Interns will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience by working alongside the Analytics team on the following:

• Helping to build analytical tools, such as automated data pipelines that feed dashboards for internal partners 
• Collecting, cleaning, and joining datasets from diverse sources, including data scraped from public websites 
• Presenting work internally and to stakeholders on other teams 
• Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned 

What You'll Bring:

The internship is open to undergraduate and graduate students in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science) or with significant quantitative coursework with a programming component (e.g., Statistics, Epidemiology, Computer Programming). Interns should possess the following:

• Familiarity with Python, R, SQL, or similar analytics and programming language 
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets 
• Excellent problem-solving skills 
• Excellent organizational and communication skills 
• Experience with data collection and cleaning a plus 
• Experience with dbt a plus 
• Experience with web scraping (e.g. Selenium, BeautifulSoup. ScraPy) a plus 

Future ACLU-ers Will:

• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU 
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives 
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict 

Internship Logistics:

• Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of remote or hybrid intern positions. This internship is fully remote.
• Time Commitment: Summer internships require a full-time commitment of 35 hours per week.  
• Internship Duration: Full-time internships span 10 consecutive weeks beginning May 28 or June 10, 2024. 
• Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work and do not receive compensation from other sources. Students with external funding may receive a partial stipend to bring their total funding up to the level of the ACLU’s stipend amount for that term. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit. Below are the stipend rates: 
  • $20/hour for undergraduate students or equivalent experience  
  • $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience 

Priority Application Deadline: March 8, 2024

Why the ACLU:

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

The ACLU makes every effort to assure that its recruitment and employment provide all qualified persons, including persons with disabilities, with full opportunities for employment in all positions.

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

The Department of Education has determined that employment in this position at the ACLU does not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.