Institute for Justice

Position Title/Short Description

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Do you want to use your research skills to advance individual rights? This is what the Institute for Justice’s Strategic Research team does every day, creating data-driven research used by journalists, lawmakers, advocates, and courts to bring light to government abuse and achieve reform. We seek entrepreneurial researchers to join our team in leadership roles. Title is negotiable to reflect research and managerial skills and experience.

Responsibilities:
• Developing and executing research plans on cutting-edge topics, such as civil forfeiture, occupational licensing, qualified immunity, zoning/housing, and 4th Amendment rights.
• Managing and mentoring junior researchers to maintain high standards of accuracy, methodological rigor, and integrity.
• Ensuring research findings reach key audiences, such as journalists and lawmakers, to bring important issues to prominence and create policy change.
Qualifications:
• Passion for policy research and IJ’s mission of championing property rights, economic liberty, free speech, and educational choice.
• Ph.D. in social sciences or statistics with an emphasis on research methods, applied statistics, or applied economics; or master’s degree in applied statistics or applied economics with three years’ experience.
• Experience conducting policy research.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

For more about this position and working at IJ: https://ij.org/careers/