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.   

  • Juvenile Justice Trend Visualization: Using publicly available data to set up and update CfJJ’s public Tableau page to allow policy makers to review trends and court involvement outcomes.

  • Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Criminal Justice Trajectory: Analyzing publicly available data across multiple agencies to identify trends that may influence future children’s involvement in the legal system to evaluate impact of changes in child welfare and juvenile justice policies on adult criminal justice involvement.

  • 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.