Principal Research Assistant

Center for Justice Innovation

part-time

Posted on: 8/30/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $38 - $44 per hour

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About the role

The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit focused on safety and racial justice, conducting research and policy guidance in justice reform.
The organization’s Research department conducts statewide evaluations and studies on criminal-legal system issues.
Responsibilities include cleaning, coding, and analyzing statewide drug court administrative data; creating summary descriptive tables; analyzing interviews and site visits; drafting case study reports; identifying key topics for statewide survey reports; finalizing descriptive survey tables; editing written materials; and participating in stakeholder calls.
The position combines quantitative and qualitative data analysis with extensive writing.
This is a remote, part-time temporary role through December 2025 (10-20 hours per week); compensation is $38-$44 per hour.

Master's degree and 3-5 years of research experience
Understanding of the drug treatment court model
Experience working in SPSS or R to clean, code, merge, and analyze large administrative data sets (preferably criminal justice data)
Experience presenting quantitative data for research reports (including for non-research audiences)
Experience coding and analyzing qualitative interview data
Strong writing skills, including writing for non-research audiences