Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

• Data collection, management, and analysis
• Produce data collection, manipulation, and analysis code in one or more programming language using common data science tools and techniques in consultation with senior data science staff
• Conduct code review of peer and data analyst code
• Lead and develop discrete analyses and/or data science products as components of broader projects
• Project manage routine and ad hoc reporting for immigration programs funded through federal contracts
• Oversee data quality controls including working with data and research analysts to support their work documenting and correcting data quality issues.
• Identify opportunities to use data to support, and be responsive to, ongoing program management and oversight data needs.
• Write up/presentation of data science findings and results
• Prepare data or background research for reports
• Synthesize analysis results into visualizations and narratives for a variety of audiences in line with initiative goals
• Present summary program statistics as data visualizations and dashboards to inform program management and service delivery and policy and programmatic recommendations.
• Maintain an understanding of developments in program support, program administration, and federal policy to inform data collection quality control and to contextualize trends.
• Lead background research and literature reviews and integrate into public-facing products including reports, advocacy documents, or other publications (quantitative or qualitative) under the supervision of senior researchers

Technical Development

• Build on project management and technical mentoring skills, including taking projects from proof-of-concept analysis to production-ready processes

Hiring/Supervision

• Supervise and mentor research assistants, analysts, and/or interns on tasks as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:

• Commitment to using research and analysis to address and undo racism and inequity in the immigration legal system required; lived experience preferred
• Fluency in at least one analytical programming language, preferably R, Python, and/or SQL
• Demonstrated ability to write analytical code in a reproducible, modular structure
• Able to contribute code and collaborate with others in git (or equivalent version control environment), including basic command line skills
• Familiarity with an analytic dashboarding tool, preferable Tableau
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases, AWS cloud services (S3, Redshift, Lamda, DMS) and ETL processes (Airflow), particularly as they intersect with data science
• Emerging ability to build supportive analytical tools that enable phases of a data science project (e.g. web scraping, interactive visualizations, automations, logs of regular processes, etc.)
• Foundational knowledge and commitment to uphold data security, privacy, and ethics principles
• While this is not a current hiring requirement, this position may require tier 1 background investigation, tier 2 background investigation, or Electronic Questionnaire for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) security clearance in the future (for additional information: https://www.dcsa.mil/is/eqip/).
• Acacia is unable to provide H1B sponsorship at this time; candidates must have United States citizenship.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:

• Fluency in a language other than English spoken by people impacted by immigration enforcement in the United States

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree + 3-4 years of relevant experience in applied research, computer/data science, natural/social science, or related discipline; or master’s degree in a relevant field + 1-2 years of relevant experience. In lieu of the degree requirement, applicable work or life experience may be considered.