FiveThirtyEight is looking for a diligent, well-organized and sort Analysis Assistant to assist observe down and enter polls and different election knowledge, in addition to contribute analysis to political tales and tasks.
This part-time place performs a important position in supporting FiveThirtyEight’s political protection and interactive tasks like our presidential approval tracker and pollster scores. You’ll assist keep the databases that hold FiveThirtyEight working, particularly our one-of-a-kind polling database. And, what’s most enjoyable, you’ll be a part of the workforce who feed knowledge into FiveThirtyEight’s 2022 midterm forecast mannequin in actual time.
This place is good for somebody considering breaking into the world of political knowledge. You’ll work carefully with our Senior Analysis Assistant and collaborate with our politics reporters, copy desk and visible journalists.
This can be a U.S.-based place. Distant work will probably be thought of, or you may 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. Because of the variety of functions we obtain, we can not assure a response to each applicant.
Obligations:
- Monitor polling information, acquire and enter new polls into our polling database and add knowledge 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 of the people about our tasks and datasets.
Primary {Qualifications}:
- Expertise with spreadsheets and amassing knowledge.
- A strong understanding of U.S. politics, notably electoral politics.
- Robust consideration to element and a willingness to carry out repetitive duties (e.g., knowledge entry) in service of essential tasks.
- Facility utilizing on-line instruments, like search engines like google and public databases, to trace down particular data.
- Consolation with calling, emailing and chasing down sources to get them to ship and reply questions on their knowledge.
- Availability and willingness to work odd hours. (Polls usually 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 an instructional analysis assistant or in a newsroom.
- A robust grasp of how polls work and the elemental 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, coloration, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender id, incapacity, or protected veteran standing.