RISC Analyst

About The Department

The Center for RISC investigates today’s social issues by combining unconventional perspectives with empirical data to generate radical solutions with real-world relevance. We test and scale these solutions through partnerships with academics, nonprofits, government agencies, international organizations, and private corporations. We’re focusing on building and scaling Project Donor, Foster Insights, and The Levitt Lab.

The Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) is hiring Analysts with diverse skills and backgrounds to tackle the world’s biggest problems. Our analysts come from data science, economics, engineering, philosophy, journalism, software development, political science, and related fields, with experience in research, consulting, tech, venture capital, and policy. Analysts identify pressing social issues, propose promising solutions, and pilot interventions in partnership with field-experts.

They also contribute to our ventures based on interests and expertise.

We value clever ideas and the hustle to implement them. We seek hires who are eager to learn, embrace calculated risk, and are excited to make an impact, especially in Project Donor, Foster Insights, and The Levitt Lab.

• Contribute to projects in our portfolio of established social impact ventures. Roles may include data analysis, software engineering, case management, operations, and related tasks.
• Engage with social problems by conducting literature reviews, speaking with experts and potential pilot participants, analyzing data, and reviewing news and media.
• Identify constructive approaches to hard problems and present findings to colleagues, partners, and funders.
• Pilot new and unconventional solutions, either with outside partners or within RISC, including prototyping products, designing incentive structures, and launching pilot programs.
• Participate in RISC culture through team brainstorms, lunch-and-learns, and ad hoc tasks such as RISC hiring.
• Maintain technical and administrative support for a research project.
• Analyze and maintain data and/or specimens; conduct literature reviews; assist with preparation of reports and manuscripts.
• Perform other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
: A college or university degree in a related field.
Work Experience
:
Knowledge and skills developed through less than 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Certifications
:
Not specified.

• Demonstrated qualitative research skills, such as surveys or focus groups.
• Project management experience.
• Operations and/or fundraising experience.
• Subject matter expertise around a social issue.
• Life experience or academic training that informs a creative framework for thinking about global problems.

• Proficiency in data science (R, Stata, SQL, Python).
• Web and/or software development skills.
• Product, UX, and/or human-centered design skills.
• Communications and/or media skills, including social media management and graphic design.
• Familiarity with randomized controlled trials/experimental design in social science.

• Self-starter who can juggle multiple priorities with minimal oversight.
• Intensely curious and eager to explore new issue areas.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to identify new directions without clear right answers.
• Able to revise views in light of new information; analyses may reveal unexpected findings.
• Resilient; able to handle challenging problems without discouragement.
• Strong communicator capable of explaining complex ideas in writing and presentations.
• Collaborative with a small team, wearing multiple hats and refining ad-hoc processes.
• Comfortable working with data and drawing conclusions from it.
• Motivation to contribute to our mission, with or without prior social good experience.

• In-office presence in Chicago 2-3 days per week.

• Resume/CV (required)
• References contact information (3) (required)

When applying, upload the document(s) via the My Experience page in the section titled Application Documents.

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