Elections Analyst – Staff Editor
| Company | The New York Times |
|---|---|
| Location | Washington, DC, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $113945.85 – $155000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional or educational experience
- Demonstrated ability as a strong analytical thinker
- Proficiency with a language such as R, Python or Stata
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Familiarity with data used for analyzing elections and voting trends, such as pre-election polling, census data, election results or voter file data
- Knowledge of prior research on American politics, demographics and election results
Responsibilities
- Build and shape statistical models that estimate turnout and vote choice of individuals, geographic units, demographic and political groups, and the overall electorate
- Help maintain the voter registration files that underpin Times/Siena polling and our election night forecasts
- Work on the design and weighting of political surveys, including The New York Times/Siena College Poll
- Help build and expand our polling averages
- Contribute original analyses of polls, voter registration trends and recent election results for articles or graphics
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- You will report to the Director, Election Data Analytics.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in R
- Experience with statistical techniques used for analyzing political data, like multilevel regression and poststratification, ecological inference and survey design and weighting
- Experience building statistical models
- Experience working on a multidisciplinary team
- Experience producing analytical content in any form