Data Analysis Internship

*aCCEPTING APPLICATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS*

CfJJ currently has several projects that require data analysis, data visualization, and/or cost-benefit and policy analysis skills.  All our data projects will involve a race equity analysis as an important core component of our work.  

Examples of internship tasks:

  • Mapping Child Welfare Trends: Work with federal and state child welfare data to track trends, analyze multiple areas of data points relating to youth in foster care, and create visualizations.

  • Police Accountability: Sourcing, analyzing, and visualizing municipal-level policing and funding data.   

  • Raise the Age Analyses:  Cost-benefit and caseload analyses; analysis of prosecution and court data related to older youth in the criminal legal system.

  • School discipline and school arrest data: Analysis of multi-year trends to determine if 2018 legislative reforms had the desired impact of reducing school-based arrests, or if this has led to an increase in the indirect pipeline into juvenile justice through increased suspension. 

Anticipated skill sets:

  • Data organizing and cleaning

  • Data analysis and data visualization

  • With staff support, write-up of analysis to accompany visualizations. 

  • Setting up systems for analysis and visualization of future quarterly and annual state agency reports.

  • Developing public records requests, and managing responses to those requests. 

  • Cost-benefit analysis. Caseload analysis. 

To apply for the Data Analysis Internship position, please submit (1) a cover letter, (2) resume, and (3) a 2-3 page writing sample and/or other examples of your work that demonstrates your data analysis and/or visualization skills to: cfjj@cfjj.org.  Please write "Data Analysis Internship Application" in the subject line and include your projected internship start/end dates in your cover letter.