Responsibilities
- Prepare data files, including data cleaning, recoding variables, computing new variables, and aggregating and splitting datasets using R.
- Conduct statistical analyses in R, including descriptive and inferential analyses
- Work with team to interpret and derive actionable insights from findings
- Work with team to design visualizations that effectively communicate complex data to lay audiences
- Review academic and industry literature for relevant contextual information
- Conceptualize and propose topics for further analysis and research
Qualifications
- Graduate student or equivalent with strong quantitative skills in applied statistics, organizational development, organizational psychology, public administration, education, psychology or sociology
- Experience with quantitative research methodologies in the social sciences
- Interest in youth development, education, and mentoring
- Proficiency with both Excel and R (including scripting and multivariate statistics). Note: All candidates who are selected to be interviewed will be required to complete a short statistical analysis exercise at the conclusion of the interview
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Ability to work well in groups
- Detail oriented
- The successful candidate will also be required to undergo a background check, in compliance with requirements from our schools and school districts.
Compensation & Logistics
- Hours: 20 hours per week, 9:30AM-5:30PM Eastern with some flexibility
- Duration: June – August 2025
- Compensation: $30/hour
- PTO: One hour of sick time accrued for every 30 hours worked
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What We Do
iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower students to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions. Since 1999, iMentor has connected more than 30,000 students with mentors. In the next 5 years, iMentor will scale to serve even more mentor-mentee pairs. In New York City, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay area, iMentor partners with public schools to ensure every student in the schools receives a mentor. Across the country, iMentor provides nonprofit partners the tools to run their own high-impact programs in the iMentor model. This includes a technology platform, a research-based curriculum, and program analysis tools.
iMentor has been recognized through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and the Robin Hood Foundation, and is a subgrantee of the federal Social Innovation Fund. iMentor is one of the most innovative and quickly growing organizations of its kind in the country. As a team, we are mission-focused, results-oriented, passionate, and fun. And we’re proud to have been named one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For by Opportunity Knocks and The Nonprofit Times.
