get-vocal-pbc - Research Analyst
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Requirements
• 1-2 years of professional experience working with large text-based datasets, including social media posts, comments, captions, or transcripts, for exploratory analysis • Experience with quantitative text analysis methods such as sentiment analysis, frequency analysis, or topic modeling • Strong SQL skills, including the ability to write queries to filter, join, and transform datasets for analysis • Clear communication skills, with the ability to translate quantitative findings into written narratives accessible to non-technical audiences • Deep familiarity with social media platforms and online communities, you spend time in these spaces and understand how content spreads, how subcultures communicate, and how algorithms shape what gets seen • Strong research instincts, the ability to identify the right places to look, ask the right questions, and know when you've found something meaningful • Interest in working for progressive causes including experience with political campaign(s) or public interest groups
Responsibilities
• Build and refine keyword-based search queries to scrape large volumes of social media posts, captions, comments, and transcripts relevant to specific issue areas • Work closely with our data team to provide clear instructions on the type of analysis that works best for a given client or problem: sentiment scoring, topic modeling, analyzing engagement metrics, etc. • Use AI tools to tag, classify, and code content at scale, categorizing posts by theme, tone, stance, or other relevant dimensions that would be impractical to label manually • Translate findings into visualizations and written deliverables that make data-driven insights accessible to non-technical audiences • Blend quantitative outputs with qualitative interpretation to develop findings that are both rigorous and narratively compelling • Synthesize qualitative findings into clear, compelling deliverables such as memos, briefs, and presentations that translate online discourse into actionable insights for non-technical audiences
Benefits
• This position includes full-time employment through November 2026 • Health insurance covered at 90% for full time employees; Dental and Vision available • Flexible PTO and sick leave • 401(k) plan & company contribution
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