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Form of workThe ACLU seeks a Graduate Intern in the Technology-AnalyticsDepartment of the ACLU's National office in Washington, DC or New York, NY. This position can be completed either fully remote or hybrid from one of our offices.
The Team:ACLU Analytics partners with teams across the organization to enable the ACLU to make smart, evidence-based decisions and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. Our team's work ranges from social science research for litigation & advocacy, to analysis & reporting for fundraising and engagement, to building and maintaining our data infrastructure. We strive to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of data and technology. This includes maintaining our privacy and security standards, pushing for transparent data practices from government and corporate actors, and helping to steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency.
What You'll Do:This intern will help the team drive quantitative analyses that will transform the way the nationwide organization achieves its mission. This includes creating reports and visualizations to support strategic and operational decisions across constituent engagement, content development and fundraising; supporting the development of dashboards that guide decision-making; helping design and execute analyses to understand and increase engagement on our web and digital content; developing recommendations based on ongoing analysis of web and digital metrics.
Your Day to Day:- Help build analytical tools, including dashboards for internal partners
- Conduct quantitative analyses
- Collect, clean, and join datasets from diverse sources
- Interpret the results of analyses for non-technical audiences
- Present work internally and to stakeholders on other teams
- Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned
The internship is open to students of Howard University's Master's in Applied Data Science & Analytics program. Interns should possess the following:
- Familiarity with Python, R, SQL, or similar analytics and programming language
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Experience with data collection and cleaning a plus
- Familiarity with Looker, Tableau, or other data visualization tools a plus
- Familiarity with web analytics tools (e.g., Heap, Google Analytics) a plus
- Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
- Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
- Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflict
- Location: Our internship program offers a limited number of remote or hybrid intern positions. This internship can be remote or hybrid from our DC or New York National office.
- Time Commitment: Summer internships require a full-time commitment of 35 hours per week.
- Internship Duration: Full-time internships span 10 consecutive weeks beginning May 28 or June 10, 2024.
- Stipend: A stipend is available for students who are lawfully authorized to work and do not receive compensation from other sources. Students with external funding may receive a partial stipend to bring their total funding up to the level of the ACLU's stipend amount for that term. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit. Below are the stipend rates:
- $20/hour forundergraduate students or equivalent experience
- $24/hour for graduate and law students or equivalent experience
Why the ACLU:
For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it's ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change. We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization - one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we're in the courts or in the office, we believe 'We the People' means all of us.
With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
The ACLU makes every effort to assure that its recruitment and employment provide all qualified persons, including persons with disabilities, with full opportunities for employment in all positions.
The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.
The Department of Education has determined that employment in this position at the ACLU does not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
