Job Description

*This is a remote 10-week paid summer fellowship.*

About Murmuration/What We Do

Murmuration is a political strategy organization that is transforming the politics of education so that every child can benefit from equal access to equitable and high-quality public schools.

We empower campaigns, advocates, and organizers to better engage and mobilize communities to demand improvements to the public education system. We advise and support our partners in their efforts to plan and execute successful, data-driven electoral, organizing, and advocacy campaigns so that together we can transform the politics of education.  And, we build political influence, craft strategies, leverage data and develop technology that enable our partners to accelerate progress, particularly those in traditionally marginalized communities.

Who We Are

Our team includes experts and innovators in data, analytics, and strategy. We are former teachers, organizers, data scientists, nonprofit executives, political campaign veterans, and more – and we are looking for people whose passion and expertise can help improve our work and realize our vision.

Background

Murmuration’s role is to support organizations and communities through our political systems, to raise the profile of the issue of public education such that more Americans will prioritize the needs of our students, and to leverage politics to help to create the broader context in which those on the front lines with our children can thrive. We are focused on transforming the politics of education — partnering with organizations across the country committed to organizing parents and communities around the issues of public education and educational equity, electing to office and holding accountable local leaders who will make improving public K-12 schools a priority, and advocating for policy changes with the goal of improving outcomes for children. To do this, we believe that it is critical that all of the political stakeholders– electoral organizations, advocacy and organizing groups, charter associations, networks of schools, districts, elected officials, and voters — to contribute to a strong and politically savvy education sector that works together toward a common vision of improving public education.

About the Fellowship

The Murmuration Summer Fellowship provides fellows with the unique opportunity to work closely with Murmuration teams on summer projects, while contributing to Murmuration’s mission of transforming the politics of education so that every child can benefit from equal access to equitable and high-quality public schools.

Fellows will have meaningful, productive, and engaging summer experiences, as they learn and grow with a cohort of peers. They will have the opportunity to learn more about career pathways in education, politics, and data through their project work, fellowship programming, and mentorship with Murmuration staff.

About the Position

The Data Science team at Murmuration collaborates with our Partnerships team to help transform data into actionable insights so that we can more effectively help our partners make informed campaign and organizing decisions.

As a Data Science Fellow at Murmuration, you will have the opportunity to fully be a part of the Data Science team and learn how data and analytics is used to build political power. You will have the opportunity to access and explore our robust data, infrastructure, and complex models on millions of voters and help us critically think through the most challenging problems, ultimately helping us grow our impact and mission.

More specifically, you will be responsible for a comprehensive bias audit project across the data science work at Murmuration. This effort includes exploring whether the accuracy of our contactability models, turnout scores, and various issue support scores vary by race, age, partisanship, geography, etc. and evaluating the impact across our partners’ work.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to understand strategic problems and translate them into an analytical approach, bringing relevant data together, identifying insights and trends, and presenting them in an easy to understand way.

Note: At Murmuration, we are committed to becoming an even more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. To this end, all staff members are expected to sit on and actively participate in DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) subcommittees. These subcommittees work to ensure that DEI is embedded in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Build reports & visualizations to provide insights and metrics which help the Data Science team to identify and reduce various types of biases in our products
• Design and develop a tool that the Data Science team can use to continue to monitor these metrics in our data science work
• Collaborate with data managers, data engineers, and data scientists to develop the framework, and build and deliver the final product
• Deliver a final presentation of findings to the wider organization
• Participate in all Data Science team meetings and contribute to discussions through new approaches and ideas
• Support the Data Science team with any ad hoc requests for analysis or data exploration
• Contribute to the Data Science team’s codebase for analyzing data, and build models to solve various partner problems

Who You Are

• A team player who can effectively collaborate with others and has a strong willingness to jump in and help when needed
• Detail oriented, organized, responsible, and self-motivated
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong problem solving skills and a desire to learn new things
• Ability to uncover actionable insights/conclusions from data; summarize and make logical recommendations that drive informed action
• Studies/background in a quantitative field preferred, e.g. statistics, computer science, economics, applied mathematics
• Comfortable navigating large datasets (minimum basic SQL), and using programming languages for analytics (e.g. Python)
• Familiarity with data science libraries e.g. scikit learn is a plus
• Experience visualizing data and building dashboards e.g. Tableau/d3 is also a plus

Location, Compensation, and Benefits

The Data Science fellow is a full-time, hourly position. It is based anywhere in the U.S.

An Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to Diversity

Murmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, we consider applicants equally of race, gender, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, political affiliation, and national origin. We reasonably accommodate staff members and/or applicants with disabilities, provided they are otherwise able to perform the essential functions of the job.

How to Apply

Job Types: Internship. Job Tags: Data Science, fellowship, non-profit, and public education.

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