We’re Hiring A Part-Time Research Assistant

FiveThirtyEight is searching for a diligent, well-organized and type Analysis Assistant to assist monitor down and enter polls and different election information, in addition to contribute analysis to political tales and tasks. 

This part-time place performs a crucial function in supporting FiveThirtyEight’s political coverage and interactive tasks like our presidential approval tracker and pollster ratings. You’ll assist keep the databases that preserve FiveThirtyEight working, particularly our one-of-a-kind polling database. And, what’s most enjoyable, you’ll be a part of the group who feed information into FiveThirtyEight’s 2022 midterm forecast mannequin in actual time.

This place is good for somebody focused on breaking into the world of political information. You’ll work intently with our Senior Research Assistant and collaborate with our politics reporters, copy desk and visible journalists. 

It is a U.S.-based place. Distant work shall be thought-about, or you possibly can work out of our New York Metropolis workplace as soon as it reopens. The precise schedule is versatile (we’ll work with you to set it), however hours are capped at 29 per week. Our hope is that you’ll keep within the job at the very least by way of the 2022 midterms, if not longer. 

To use, please e mail a canopy letter and résumé to Senior Analysis Assistant Mary Radcliffe at mary.l.radcliffe@abc.com. As a result of variety of functions we obtain, we can’t assure a response to each applicant.

Duties:

• Monitor polling information, accumulate and enter new polls into our polling database and add information to our polling trackers and fashions.
• Contribute to authentic analysis for particular tales and tasks.
• Develop an experience in U.S. ballot operators — their methodologies, quirks and high quality.
• Reply to inquiries from pollsters and most people about our tasks and datasets.

Primary {Qualifications}:

• Expertise with spreadsheets and gathering information.
• A strong understanding of U.S. politics, significantly electoral politics.
• Robust consideration to element and a willingness to carry out repetitive duties (e.g., information entry) in service of vital tasks.
• Facility utilizing on-line instruments, like engines like google and public databases, to trace down particular info.
• Consolation with calling, emailing and chasing down sources to get them to ship and reply questions on their information.
• Availability and willingness to work odd hours. (Polls typically drop late at evening or on weekends.)

Most well-liked {Qualifications}:

(However missing a number of of those ought to not forestall you from making use of!)

• Expertise working as a tutorial analysis assistant or in a newsroom.
• A robust grasp of how polls work and the basic statistical ideas essential to interpret them.
• Familiarity with relational databases.

ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender id, incapacity or protected veteran standing.