Research Assistant

Description

EVITARUS (the “Company”) is a market and public opinion research firm that delivers actionable data and strategic advice to political, policy, and private decision makers. We conduct methodologically rigorous research on behalf of stakeholders seeking to understand the opinions, attitudes, and experiences of key constituencies and populations of interest.

The Research Assistant works collaboratively with the Company's team to support and facilitate high quality opinion and market research to inform client decision making in public policy, social marketing, campaigns, advocacy, and corporate public affairs. This includes executing tasks related to quantitative and qualitative research implementation, thematic and textual analysis, development of research deliverables, memoranda, and reporting, as well as other aspects of the research process.

Utilizing an interdisciplinary skill set under the direction of researchers, develop, assist, and provide timely support and deliverables for research, including:

• Work collaboratively with all Staff to facilitate, assist, and support, as needed, research projects, including development of research instruments, memos, spreadsheets, presentations, documents, and logistics execution for research projects.
• Stay abreast of, and write briefing memos and literature reviews, on pertinent political, business, and public policy issues, including changes in the local, state, federal, and international political and economic landscapes. Cultivate knowledge and capabilities involving the same.
• Conduct background research, perform literature reviews, and write memoranda to inform research design and research instruments.
• Review, transcribe, and take notes for live and recorded meetings, webinars, and research.
• Assist with programming and testing of research instruments.
• Observe and monitor data collection and assist with data programming and processing, data crosstabulation, analysis, and reporting.
• Prepare focus group materials, qualitative research audio and video recordings, and transcripts.
• Review and analyze textual data for qualitative research projects.
• Create codebooks for opinion and market research studies, including verbatim survey responses and qualitative opinion data.
• Observe and attend in-person and virtual focus groups, interviews, meetings, presentations of research results, and client briefings.
• Assist with the development of key findings and strategic recommendations, memoranda, and reports based upon research results.
• Develop and assist with research reports, including memoranda, presentations, data visualizations, white papers, and academic articles.
• Edit and proofread documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Assist with logistics execution for research projects.
• Assist Research Staff.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Political Science, Public Policy, Communications, Psychology, or Sociology.
• Coursework or experience in research methods, statistics, and/or data analysis.
• Coursework in African American studies is desirable.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Office 365 tools.
• Experience working with survey applications, such as Qualtrics, is desirable.
• Familiarity with R or similar programming languages, is desirable.
• Advanced working knowledge of American politics, public policy, and quantitative and/or qualitative research.
• Prior internship or work experience in public opinion research, political campaigns, public relations, political communications, or a related field is desirable.
• 0-3 years of work experience post-graduation in public opinion research or public policy.