Posted on May 18, 2022

Description

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) in Washington, D.C., seeks inter­est­ed can­di­dates for a year-long Data Fellowship run­ning from September 2022 to September 2023. The Center is a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion serv­ing the media and the pub­lic with analy­sis and infor­ma­tion on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. DPIC pro­motes informed dis­cus­sion of the death penal­ty by prepar­ing in-depth reports, con­duct­ing brief­in­gs for jour­nal­ists, and serv­ing as a resource to those work­ing on this issue. The Data Fellow is the point per­son for man­ag­ing DPIC’s data on death sen­tences and oth­er aspects of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, and plays a key role in cre­at­ing DPIC’s data visualizations.

The key responsibilities for this position include:

  • Managing DPIC’s data­base of death sen­tences, includ­ing research­ing cas­es and mak­ing cor­rec­tions and updates
  • Analyzing data and using descrip­tive sta­tis­tics to pro­duce writ­ten con­tent for DPIC reports, web­pages, and other projects
  • Creating and main­tain­ing data visu­al­iza­tions (using Tableau, Adobe Illustrator, and oth­er data-visu­al­iza­tion tools where applic­a­ble) for use on DPIC’s web­site and other materials
  • Working with staff and interns to research data on new death sen­tences, exe­cu­tions, and oth­er aspects of capital punishment
  • Assisting DPIC staff with man­ag­ing media and oth­er information requests
  • Writing blog posts on the lat­est news in death penalty cases

Required Qualifications:

  • Commitment to racial equi­ty and social justice
  • Ability to clear­ly and con­cise­ly com­mu­ni­cate com­plex infor­ma­tion, both visu­al­ly and verbally
  • Strong research skills
  • Experience with Microsoft Excel
  • Tableau expe­ri­ence is not required, but the Data Fellow should be a self-starter with abil­i­ty to learn, adapt, and prob­lem solve when using new tech­nolo­gies or pro­grams. They must be com­fort­able using Google, Stack Overflow, YouTube, etc. to inde­pen­dent­ly trou­bleshoot and find solu­tions to prob­lems. DPIC is will­ing to pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive train­ing in Tableau to the new Data Fellow.
  • Ability to work inde­pen­dent­ly and as part of a team
  • Ability to pri­or­i­tize and man­age short and long-term research projects

Other Helpful Skills and Experience:

  • Background or edu­ca­tion in a relat­ed field, includ­ing social sci­ence, jour­nal­ism, crim­i­nal jus­tice, data sci­ence, pub­lic pol­i­cy, or statistics
  • Familiarity with the death penal­ty and the crim­i­nal legal system
  • Experience with Tableau
  • Adobe Illustrator and/​or Photoshop
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills (e.g. Pivot tables, formulas)
  • Experience work­ing with large data sets
  • Experience with data journalism projects
  • Familiarity with legal research
  • Knowledge of data­bas­es or SQL

Salary and Benefits:

  • $47,700, plus ben­e­fits includ­ing 401(k) match­ing, health/​dental/​vision insur­ance, and paid hol­i­days, vaca­tion, and sick leave

Timeline:

  • Preferred start date the week of September 5th, 2022
  • Applications due by June 8th, 2022
  • The posi­tion is a one-year fel­low­ship to last until fall 2023.

Other Considerations:

  • Remote work pos­si­ble, but pref­er­ence is for abil­i­ty to work in DPIC’s Washington, DC office. DPIC is cur­rent­ly a hybrid remote/in-per­son workplace
  • DPIC strong­ly encour­ages appli­ca­tions from his­tor­i­cal­ly dis­ad­van­taged groups, includ­ing Black peo­ple, Indigenous peo­ple, peo­ple of col­or, LGBTQ+ peo­ple, and women

Details at a glance:

  • Full Time Schedule
  • Entry lev­el
  • Benefits
  • 401(k) match­ing
  • Health/​dental/​vision insurance
  • Paid hol­i­days, vaca­tion, and sick leave

How To Apply:

Please send cov­er let­ter and resume in a sin­gle PDF to careers@​deathpenaltyinfo.​org. Applications due by June 8th, 2022.

If you have ques­tions about the posi­tion, please con­tact Aimee Breaux at abreaux@​deathpenaltyinfo.​org or 202 – 289-2275.

Location

1701 K Street Northwest, Suite 205, Washington, DC 20006