Fall 2020 Internship Opportunity with ACLU Analytics Team

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The Analytics Team of the National ACLU Digital, Tech & Analytics Department has openings for undergraduate or graduate internships in New York, NY.

For 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities 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 LGBT community, advancing racial justice, 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 and civil rights cases and issues to defend all people from government abuse and overreach. With more than one million members, activists, and supporters, the ACLU is a nationwide organization that fights tirelessly in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., for the principle that every individual’s rights must be protected equally under the law, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, and record of arrest or conviction.

INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW

Interns will complete projects that support our work with a variety of teams including advocacy (e.g. creating analytics tools and conducting electoral analyses), development / engagement teams (e.g. by building dashboards and creating benchmarking metrics) as well as the infrastructure side of our team (e.g. setting up data pipelines and workflows). We also see the internship program as an opportunity to build our hiring pipeline for future roles, and to create members of the data science / analytics community who are focused on and prepared to use those skills to advance social justice & the ACLU’s mission after they complete their internships.

  • Time Commitment: The internship requires a full-time or part-time commitment of 10, 15, 20 or 35 hours per week.
  • Internship Duration: Internships are a 10-week period (part-time) or a 12-week period (full-time) . Fall interns are expected to start on September 14 or September 21.
  • Stipend: A stipend is available for those students who do not receive outside funding and/or course credit. Arrangements can be made with educational institutions for work/study or course credit.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Interns will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience by working alongside the Analytics team on the following:
  • Helping to build analytical tools, including dashboards for internal partners
  • Conducting quantitative analyses
  • Collecting, cleaning, and joining datasets from diverse sources
  • Interpreting the results of analyses for non-technical audiences
  • Presenting work internally and to stakeholders on other teams
  • Other duties as assigned

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

The internship is open to undergraduate or graduate students in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science) or with significant quantitative coursework (e.g., Statistics, Computer Programming, Linear Algebra). 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
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel a plus
  • Familiarity with Looker, Tableau, or other visualization tools a plus
  • Commitment to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and/or conflict
  • A commitment to civil liberties, civil rights, and social justice.
  • Commitment to the mission of the ACLU

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and accepted until the position is filled.

This posting provides a general but not comprehensive list of the opportunities of the internship. It does not represent a contract of employment. The ACLU reserves the right to change the posting at any time without advance notice.

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 e-mail [email protected].  If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

For more information, including how to apply, please follow this link: https://www.aclu.org/careers/internships/apply/?job=4760135002&type=internships

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