DATA ANALYSTDATA ANALYTICS AND RESEARCH TEAM POSTED: 9/21/2026PROGRAM SUMMARYDART - We lead research and analytics that turn CJA's unparalleled justice system data into insights that drive policy and practice. Drawing on over 100,000 annual face-to-face interviews and comprehensive data feeds from police, courts, and corrections, we analyze complex trends, evaluate emerging policies, and apply causal techniques to assess the impact of policy and applied interventions. Through rigorous analysis, compelling visualizations, and impactful publications, we illuminate the workings of New York City's justice system and advance new lines of inquiry to shape a fairer, more effective system.
POSITION SUMMARYThe Data Analyst will support DART's applied research and analytic work by defining study populations, pulling and cleaning administrative data, conducting descriptive and exploratory analyses, and producing tables, visualizations, and written products for technical and non-technical audiences.
The analyst will collaborate with DART staff and other CJA teams to answer research, policy, and operational questions, contribute to project scoping and analytic planning, conduct quality assurance, document methods and limitations, and help ensure that findings are accurate, reproducible, and responsive to stakeholder needs.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES- Analytics & Data Science - Use R or Python and SQL to prepare, clean, validate, and analyze data. Conduct descriptive and exploratory analyses and contribute to reproducible, well-documented analytic workflows.Develop dashboards, visualizations, and data tools to make analyses accessible to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Research Support - Support short- and longer-term research projects by helping define analytic questions, developing measures, conducting analyses, reviewing results, and updating prior work as needed.
- Program and Policy Analysis - Conduct analyses that help CJA understand programs, operations, trends, and outcomes. Work with colleagues to translate policy and operational questions into clear analytic approaches.
- Collaboration - Create clear tables, visualizations, presentations, dashboards, and written summaries that communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborate with DART colleagues, staff across CJA, and external partners as needed to clarify questions and share results.
- Project Management: Manage assigned tasks and timelines, communicate progress and potential issues, and balance multiple projects with guidance from the supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS- Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience in data analysis, applied research, program evaluation, public policy research, or a related field. Experience working with administrative data, government data, or criminal justice data is a plus.
- Education: Master's degree preferred in statistics, data science, economics, public policy, social science, computer science, or another quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Problem-solving skills: Ability to multitask and adapt to a fast-paced environment working with urgency on requests/situations that require a quick turnaround. Work collaboratively to identify and troubleshoot technical problems and find solutions. Proven ability to collaborate with complex stakeholder relationships as well as technical and nontechnical staff.
- Exceptional communication skills: A positive attitude and a customer-oriented approach are required as well as the ability to communicate clearly and effectively at all organizational levels and with stakeholders that are both highly technical and non-technical.
- Problem-solving skills: Ability to multitask and adapt to a fast-paced environment working with urgency on requests/situations that require a quick turnaround. Work collaboratively to identify and troubleshoot technical problems and find solutions.
- Mission Oriented: Committed to CJA's mission and values of commitment, fairness and innovation.
Expertise: - Proficiency in R or Python for data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.
- Experience using SQL to retrieve, join, and summarize data from relational databases.
- Strong foundation in descriptive statistics and applied research methods. Familiarity with regression or other statistical methods is a plus.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments, work collaboratively, and respond to requests with short turnaround times.
- Expertise in data wrangling and cleaning, including handling messy, incomplete, or complex administrative datasets
- Proven ability to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience integrating external data from APIs and common data formats like JSON, CSV, and Parquet.
- Strong data storytelling skills, with experience creating or supporting compelling visualizations, dashboards, and policy briefs.
- Proficiency with computational notebooks for data exploration, analysis, and presentation of results.
- Familiarity with building reproducible pipelines and version-controlled workflows (Git/GitHub, CI/CD).
- Knowledge of or demonstrated interest in criminal justice policy, pretrial justice, courts, or related public-policy issues.
- Interest in using rigorous analysis to inform policy, improve programs and operations, and support better outcomes for people affected by the criminal justice system.
SALARY: $95,000 - $106,000
HOURS: 9AM-5PM Tues- Thursday in person/ Monday & Friday work from home
*Internal applicants must be 1 year in their current roles and in good standing (no disciplinary action within the last 90 days) to apply.BENEFITS: CJA offers a very generous benefit plan including health, dental and vision insurance, a comprehensive mental health, and wellness, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) plan, four weeks' vacation, paid holidays, and a retirement plan with employer matching contributions. CJA is also strongly committed to professional learning and development for its staff members and offers staff varied opportunities for learning and development through partnerships and vendor services for web based, in-person professional development training, as well as in-house job training and development.
Note: Only those candidates being considered will be contacted.
CJA is seeking applicants who pursue professional development pathways by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining professional networks, and engaging with professional associations
