Associate or Senior Associate, Research
Company: Vote Rev
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
Location. Los Angeles, New York City or remote. -
Compensation and benefits. $66,300 - $85,860 annually depending on
experience, with generous medical, dental, vision, and
retirement.
Role type. We are looking to hire three new members for our team.
All three roles are full-time, long-term with no end date.
About the opportunity
The Vote Rev Research Team is hiring three researchers at the
Associate or Senior Associate level to work on partisan and
nonpartisan research and design initiatives. The researchers will
work closely with other Research Team members to (i) conduct
qualitative research, (ii) assist in the designing, prototyping,
and optimizing of voter engagement innovations, and (iii) assist in
the design, implementation, and analysis of experiments. -
Candidates should have some familiarity with voter engagement or
behavioral science, and be passionate about advancing social
justice and electing progressive candidates. We're especially
excited about candidates with experience in ANY of the following:
(i) qualitative research and creating intuitive and user-centered
design solutions, (ii) statistical methods and programming, or
(iii) political organizing or campaigning.
Vote Rev's design process
The researchers will work as part of a team to design, prototype,
optimize, and test new voter engagement innovations. Vote Rev's
ENGAGE innovation process starts with carefully defining a problem
we want to solve (e.g., non-activist voters don't talk to their
friends above voting). We use qualitative and quantitative research
to deeply understand the system in which the problem occurs and the
behavioral barriers individuals face. Then we generate potential
designs, test and refine prototypes, and run evaluations to gauge
their effectiveness. Ultimately we create refined tactics with best
practices that can be adopted by community groups, voter engagement
nonprofits, and campaigns throughout the progressive movement!
Responsibilities
Your work will touch every stage of the ENGAGE process. Your exact
responsibilities will depend on your experience, skills, and
interests, and the team's needs. Activities may include:
Working with research team members to design, execute, and analyze
qualitative research: interviews, focus groups, observation, and
user experience research.
- Participating in design work in collaboration with researchers,
voters, community leaders, organizers, campaigns, and partner
organizations. You'll help refine ideas and iterate on low- and
high-fidelity prototypes, so we can learn quickly from both
failures and successes. -
- Supporting quantitative research by helping design and monitor
field trials and collecting, cleaning, and analyzing large, messy
data sets
Staying up-to-date with the latest research and best practices in
behavioral science and political campaigns. Helping develop
presentations and written materials to share findings and
recommendations with teammates, partners, and funders.
Questions your work might answer:
- What stops people from talking to voter registration
canvassers? -
- What's the best way of retaining campaign volunteers cycle
after cycle?
- How can we get more people to sign up to vote by mail for every
election? - -
- Why do voters who regularly vote in Presidential elections not
always vote in Midterm elections?
Who we're looking for
This is an entry-level or early-career position with substantial
support from more senior team members and opportunities for growth
and development. If you are eager to make an impact through
behavioral science research and designing new voter engagement
tactics, please apply even if you don't meet every bullet point in
the sections below.
A successful candidate will be: -
- Excited about bringing together the strengths of design
research, behavioral science, quantitative methods, and political
organizing to design and field-test voter engagement
innovations.
- Able to flexibly move between rigorous, precise research and
fast, scrappy problem-solving to suit the needs of the
moment.
- Skilled at communicating research insights and scientific
concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Willing to travel up to 5 times per year for field research,
design workshops, or meetings (with advance notice and some
flexibility on dates).
- Excited about learning and growing in the behavioral design
field!
Key skills and experience:
- Bachelor's degree -
- Some kind of experience designing or analyzing qualitative
research methods such as surveys, interviews, and/or focus
groups
- 1-4 years of experience in ANY (not all!) of the following
areas:
- User research, human-centered design, behavioral science, or a
related field
- Political campaigns or organizing
- Statistical methods (at the level of linear regression) using R
or Stata
Helpful but not required:
- Knowledge of core behavioral science principles such as
heuristics and biases, "nudges", and persuasion
- Experience working for a political campaign or voter engagement
nonprofit
- Basic knowledge of randomized controlled trials and
experimental design
- Basic skills in SQL, R or python programming, or cloud
management -
Reasons to love this role
- The Research Team plans and executes hand-in-hand with our
partner-facing teammates. We ensure that we're learning from
organizations working on the ground, and that we're creating the
innovations and answers they need for this moment. -
- Sustainable work culture: We support team members in finding
work schedules that fit their lives, we offer generous PTO, and
we're dedicated to making sure you can truly disconnect during your
time off. Expect work to be intense during the lead-up to the
elections, and then to have plenty of time to rest and recover
afterwards. -
Compensation and benefits
- Compensation: $66,300 - $85,860 annually depending on
experience
- Benefits: Choose from a variety of fully employer-subsidized
vision, dental, and medical HMO or PPO plans. We also offer
partially subsidized coverage for spouses and dependents. In
addition, we offer generous paid family medical/parental
leave.
- Retirement: We offer a 401k plan. After three months of
service, Vote Rev will contribute an amount equal to 6% of your
salary every month, no employee contribution required. -
- Paid time off: Employees accrue 1.5 days of PTO per month, up
to a maximum of 18 days of PTO. In addition, all federal holidays,
a summer break ( July 1 - July 5, 2024), a winter break ( December
23, 2024 - January 1, 2025), and every Friday after election day
through the end of 2024 are company holidays.
- Flexible work location: For candidates in NYC, we encourage
hybrid home / office work (e.g., 2 days/week in the office). Most
days coming to the office is optional but you can be there as
frequently as you want. -
Timeline
We aim to close this application by May 24. Applications are
reviewed as they come in, so you may be notified whether or not you
are moving forward before the application closing date. If we
receive a high volume of applications we may close the application
sooner than May 24. The steps in the process are:
- Resume and application questionnaire screen: This step is to
establish the baseline for candidates we will advance through the
process.
- Case study: An at-home assignment that you are expected to take
less than 2 hours to complete. This gives us a chance to see how
you think and see an example work product.
- Initial interview: This will be a 30-minute conversation with a
member of the Vote Rev team, and might include answering
scenario-based questions.
- Final interviews: Applicants will be called back for a set of
final-round interviews with other members of the Vote Rev team.
This will require up to three hours during business hours.
-
- References: We will ask for three professional or personal
references for our top one or two candidates to learn more about
working with them.
- Job offer: We provide our best and final offer in terms of
compensation, which will be within the salary band shown in the job
description. We base our offer on the number of years of relevant
study and work experience and where that fits within our internal
salary leveling system. We do not negotiate salary or other
benefits due to research finding that introducing opportunities to
negotiate results in pay disparities that are not correlated with
competency. -
We expect to make an offer no later than June 21, with a preference
for a start date shortly after the offer is accepted. -
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