Center for Justice Innovation

Principal Research Assistant

Center for Justice Innovation

part-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $38 - $44 per hour

Job Level

Lead

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.

Requirements

  • 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