Part-time Research and Data Assistant

ABOUT US

Apex for Youth empowers underserved Asian and immigrant youth from low-income families in NYC to unlock their potential and a world of possibility. Through programming focusing on health and well-being, education, and community engagement, Apex for Youth creates transformative social connections and celebrates cultural identity to build the confidence and self-efficacy of future generations.

Apex serves approximately 2,000 students annually from Kindergarten through their post-secondary years. We provide children and young adults with opportunities to develop strong relationships with adults who volunteer as consistent and caring mentors and role models.

JOB OVERVIEW

Apex for Youth seeks a part-time Research and Data Assistant to support the implementation of our comprehensive strategy for measuring and reporting the impacts of our programming, as well as research on community needs, in order to ensure that we are able to deepen and broaden Apex’s influence on the lives of the youth we serve. 

Apex conducts yearly surveys with all youth, volunteers, and family members in order to assess our short- and long-term impacts on our youth, in line with our theory of change framework. We also collect and analyze outputs including program enrollment and participation data, youth and volunteer demographic information, and matriculation, persistence, and graduation data for our high school and college students. We also ensure Apex’s program impact is supported by external research related to the populations we serve, including working with Census data and gathering and reporting on other community-level data, national and local polling, and other academic research. The part-time Research and Data Assistant will support various processes, enumerated below, to support the collection, analysis, and reporting of these data as well as external research.

The part-time Research and Data Assistant will report to the Program Data Analysis Manager and work closely with program leadership and other program and administrative staff. 

This is a hybrid position with at least 1 day of expected in-person work at our office in the Lower East Side (195 Chrystie Street). A regular weekly schedule can be set at the candidate's convenience together with the supervisor but should fall between Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Data collection (30%): Support and conduct impact data collection including drafting, reviewing, and revising data collection instruments such as surveys or interview and focus group protocols; programming surveys into the QuestionPro survey platform; tracking survey completion; data entering paper surveys; and other tasks as needed
• Data analysis (30%): Assist with conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses of program impact and outputs data, including cleaning datasets, running descriptive statistics, content analysis, restructuring data, and other analyses as needed
• Reporting (20%): Assist with preparing data tables, graphs, and other visualizations as needed for program teams; writing findings related to different audiences
• Research (20%): Contribute to conducting external research and managing a library of external statistics around needs faced by the population we serve and/or geographies or populations we are hoping to serve

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-2 years prior work and/or internship experience in youth development, and/or education experience in social science, applied psychology, or other related fields required
• Familiarity with basic statistics, and quantitative analysis required
• Familiarity with the building blocks of program evaluation (designing a survey, observation rubric, etc.) required
• Strong research skills required
• Proficient in Google Suite (Google Forms, Sheets, Docs, Slides) required
• Able to keep a lot of information organized, strong attention to detail required
• Self-directed as well as a demonstrated ability to collaborate required
• Strong communication skills required
• Commitment to Apex’s mission required
• Familiarity with qualitative analysis preferred
• Knowledge of advanced statistics preferred
• Experience with SPSS preferred
• Experience with survey platforms such as QuestionPro preferred
• Experience with Salesforce preferred
• Experience with Census data tools, and conducting literature reviews preferred

Pay range: This role offers $23 per hour with a hybrid schedule of 20 hours per week.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your resume and cover letter to Chloe Rinehart, chloe.rinehart@apexforyouth.org, with “Research and Data Assistant” in the subject line.