Location: Brooklyn, NY or remote within the US
Target Start Date: February 2022 End Date: November 4, 2022
Salary Range: $25/hour
Benefits: Vision, dental, & medical insurance; 403(b) retirement savings plan; generous vacation policy; parental leave; long-term disability; employee assistance program
Level: Entry-level
Supervisory role Y/N: N
Organizational overview
At Democracy Works, we work to help Americans vote, no matter what. To that end, we build technology for both voters and election administrators that increases voter access and participation.
- TurboVote is a tool designed to help voters register, request their ballot, and make their voice heard in every election, from local to national. We’ve connected over ten million Americans with TurboVote by building the largest college, nonprofit, and corporate voter engagement coalition in the country, including more than 300 campuses, nonprofits – like Headcount, Color of Change, and the Hispanic Federation – and companies like Starbucks, Univision, Facebook, Google, and Snap.
- As the only comprehensive official election dataset, the Voting Information Project (VIP) helps Americans find their polling site and available ballot dropbox locations where they look for it most: online. Across Google products alone, VIP data was viewed nearly 500 million times in 2020.
- How To Vote breaks down all the options each state offers for voting, their voter registration rules, as well as unique circumstances like voting overseas and voting rights restoration for the formerly incarcerated. Across Google products alone, our How to Vote guides were viewed over 2 billion times.
- Our tool Ballot Scout brings transparency and accountability to the vote-by-mail process by allowing elections administrators and voters to track every ballot with ease. Ballot Scout helps election administrators track absentee ballots through the mail, providing transparency in the vote-by-mail process and making it easier to follow up when things go awry.
- Co-founded by Democracy Works and the CAA Foundation, Civic Alliance is a nonpartisan group of businesses working together to build a future where everyone participates in shaping our democracy. In 2020, membership grew to 1,030 companies with an employee reach of 5,163,938.
The Voting Information Project (VIP) coordinates with state election offices to publish nationally-standardized information about where and how to vote—data that powers everything from Google’s polling place search to our text message and email reminders to TurboVote users. The Data Fellow will work with the VIP team for the 2022 election cycle, assisting with collecting, cleaning, and ensuring the accuracy of a nation’s worth of election data.
You will:
- Work with Democracy Works technical staff to collect and organize elections data from state and local election offices
- Assist with standardizing & cleaning datasets in spreadsheets or tabular formats
- Perform quality assurance checks on the information to assure accuracy and completeness of the data
- Research partner and user-reported errors
- Engage in conversations about anti-oppression and racial justice in our work
You are:
- Extremely attentive to details
- Proficient at working with data
- Able to organize non-centralized, non-standard information into a coherent format
- Knowledgeable on a basic level of American politics, elections, and/or election administration
- Skilled at managing competing priorities
- Happy to pitch in wherever help is needed
- Well versed in issues of racial justice, or beginning to learn more in earnest
You have experience:
- Working with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or other data management software
- Communicating across different areas of expertise and working in teams
- Working on tight deadlines and quickly turning around deliverables
- Working remotely as part of a distributed team