Data Analyst

Data Analyst

Overview 

The Bronx Defenders (BxD), an innovative, progressive, holistic indigent defense office in the South Bronx, seeks a Data Analyst, to join our Data Team.

Founded in 1997, The Bronx Defenders is a public defender nonprofit that has developed a nationally recognized model of representation called holistic defense, which provides people with teams of lawyers, social workers, and advocates to defend them zealously in court as well as to address the underlying drivers and enmeshed penalties of legal system involvement. 

Since opening our doors, we have grown into an organization of more than 400 staff members defending nearly 20,000 New Yorkers each year in criminal, family, civil, and immigration proceedings who face incarceration, family separation, eviction, and deportation, among other devastating consequences. 

Today we are reimagining the role of public defense even further, using community organizing and engagement, legislative advocacy, and impact litigation to partner with the communities we represent to bring about long-lasting systemic change. 

We also share our model and lessons learned with current and future public defenders. We run two legal clinics at NYC law schools and train public defenders from one end of the country to the next on how to move to a holistic model of representation.

Description

The Data Analyst will work collaboratively to provide staff with data and analysis to help support and advance holistic defense and systemic change. The Data Analyst will join the Data team at BxD that is focused on collaborating with Practices and Departments to deliver key insights.

The Data Analyst role is unique as you will work at the intersection of public defense, community advocacy, and data science. Few data roles offer the opportunity to directly influence litigation strategy, legislative reform, and community-based systemic change.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain reporting tools and dashboards to meet advocacy, strategic planning, and contractual obligations. 
• Interpret the results of data analyses for non-technical audiences
• Translate feedback and questions from attorneys and other staff into actionable dashboards
• Support teams across BxD on data projects and processes
• Respond to ad hoc requests for data, reports, or technical support from across the organization
• Collect, clean, and join datasets from diverse sources 
• Create tools to track data quality. Work collaboratively with administrators, advocates, attorneys, and other staff who enter data to improve data quality. 
• Assist in and develop trainings for BxD staff and external audiences to increase data and technology capacity both within the organization and at other defender offices and allied organizations
• Produce data visualizations and maps
• Produce clear, concise, and actionable documentation about processes and data definitions
• Perform duties that pertain to data gathering, storage, processing or analysis, as needed

Qualifications

To be eligible, candidates must have either:

• Minimum of one year of work experience in data science and analytics OR
• Minimum of one year in defense/legal services systems work, and training on data technology and analysis

Technical skill requirements:

• Candidates must be comfortable with at least one tool for analyzing medium to large data sets (100,000+ rows of data)
• For example: SQL, Python, R, any business intelligence tools, advanced excel 
• It is not necessary to have experience with all of the above, but candidates must have experience with one.

Applicants must demonstrate:

• Strong interest in developing proficiency with new tools, technologies and techniques 
• Commitment to social justice work and issues affecting low-income individuals impacted by the criminal, family, immigration and civil legal systems 
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with lawyers and non-lawyers
• Ability to think critically and creatively in fast-paced settings
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to receive feedback constructively, reflect and shift behavior accordingly
• Ability to exercise excellent judgment, discretion, and confidentiality around sensitive issues
• Ability to engage effectively with people from various backgrounds and experiences

Salary is commensurate with experience. For candidates with 1- 3 years of directly relevant experience, the salary range for this position is $70,000.00 to $90,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to medical, dental and vision coverage; a 403(b) plan with employer contribution; a generous vacation, sick leave, and parental leave policy.

Approximately 70% of The Bronx Defenders' staff, including attorneys and non-attorneys, are represented by UAW Local 2325 - Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (AFL-CIO). This position is not within the bargaining unit.

This position is exempt. By law, nonexempt employees are compensated hourly based on their annual rate and therefore are entitled to overtime, whereas exempt employees are not.

To apply, please upload your resume and cover letter in one document. Your resume will be used to determine your salary based on the number of years of directly relevant professional experience and should include all relevant professional experience. Applications without a written cover letter will not be considered.

The Bronx Defenders is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a workplace that embraces staff with a diversity of backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We acknowledge the ways in which systemic oppression and injustice can undermine access to professional opportunities and are committed to conducting hiring and promotion processes that are equitable and accessible to those commonly excluded from the workforce. We do not discriminate against and in fact specifically encourage applicants from marginalized communities to apply, including those who identify as Black, Indigenous, people of color, queer, transgender, gender non-conforming, disabled, neurodivergent, and those directly impacted by criminal, civil, family, and immigration legal systems. We value lived as well as professional experience and particularly welcome applications from the Bronx community that we serve.

Full-time employees are also eligible for a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to medical, dental and vision coverage; a 403(b) plan with employer contribution; a generous vacation, sick leave, and parental leave policy.