Predoctoral Research Fellow (Quantitative

Position Summary

Wellbeing & Equity Innovations (WEI) is seeking a Predoctoral Research Fellow (Quantitative) to support rigorous research, evaluation, data management, statistical analysis and planning, proposal writing, and dissemination activities across WEI projects. This fellowship is designed for a doctoral student who has completed doctoral-level coursework, including advanced quantitative statistics coursework, and is interested in gaining applied, research experience in a mission-driven organization focused on criminal legal and justice system transformation.

The ideal candidate will excel in advanced quantitative statistics, be proficient in quantitative data management, have experience working on research teams, and be familiar with services research, intervention research, program evaluation, or applied research. Mixed methods research experience is preferred but is not required.

WEI highly values diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including applicants with lived experience with the criminal legal and justice systems.

Wellbeing & Equity Innovation is a national nonprofit committed to assisting legal, justice and community partners with transforming their systems of care. WEI operates as an applied research translation and implementation partner, working with hundreds of organizations throughout the country to develop, implement, evaluate, and improve their programs.

WEI’s team of nearly 30 multidisciplinary staff and consultants specialize in program and policy intervention strategies rooted in Wellbeing Development;
Trauma & Health; and Family Systems. We partner with law enforcement, corrections, prosecutors, public defenders, and service providers to deliver state of the art services to individuals under their supervision and train those organizations to hire their own staff to continue the delivery of evidence-based services in the future. Together with our partners, we identify solutions based on needs they define.

WEI helps partners innovate by combining research and the delivery of evidence-informed practices – and we research and refine the strategy to ensure it is working how they expected and that our partners have the capacity to sustain the innovation.

• Support quantitative data management across research and evaluation projects, including data cleaning, organization, documentation, and preparation for analysis.
• Conduct routine reviews of project datasets to identify missing values, out-of-range responses, inconsistencies, unusual patterns, and other data quality concerns.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries, coding guides, variable documentation, syntax files, and other data management resources.
• Create and review crosswalks across survey measures, administrative datasets, research instruments, and project data systems.
• Support the development and implementation of data quality protocols to ensure consistency, accuracy, confidentiality, and compliance with human subjects research requirements.

• Assist in developing statistical analysis plans for research studies, evaluations, proposal applications, reports, and publications.
• Run statistical analyses using appropriate methods under the supervision of senior research staff.
• Conduct descriptive, bivariate, multivariate, longitudinal, or other advanced statistical analyses, depending on project needs and the fellow’s experience.
• Prepare analytic outputs, tables, figures, and summaries for internal review, funder reports, manuscripts, presentations, and other dissemination products.
• Support interpretation of statistical findings and translate results into clear, actionable language for academic, policy, practitioner, and community audiences.

• Contribute to academic publications, research reports, briefs, presentations, and other dissemination products.
• Assist with literature reviews, measure reviews, intervention research summaries, and synthesis of evidence related to criminal legal systems, reentry, wellbeing, behavioral health, services, and program implementation.
• Support proposal writing…