Analyst, Research (Chicago/Hybrid)
Description
Work. Serve. Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
The Opportunity
The Analyst, Research provides research support to the organization through contribution to the development, execution, and management of primary and secondary research and analysis, facilitating the development of organization and policy-based research to support evidence-based programs, legislation, and organization advancement of Feeding America
Compensation
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $80,000 Based on Experience.
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $80,000 Based on Experience.
Benefits: A comprehensive list of benefits available to full-time employees can be found here.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Takes direction from Manager/Director of Research to implement project tasks, processes and analysis for key research studies and initiatives (e.g., Service Insights, Consumer Insights, Feeding America Client Survey (FACS), Map the Meal Gap, Food Access Measurement Framework (FAMF), Initiative Evaluation & Impact, and other special population studies), progressing key project components and coordinating with team members, appropriate personnel, and/or consultants in a timely and clear fashion.
- Collaborates with research managers and directors to define project goals, research design and deliverables and to draft and manage project budgets. When appropriate, delineates tasks to team members, appropriate personnel, and/or consultants to support key project activities and deliverables.
- Integrates Feeding America's Research and Innovation philosophy into activities and projects. This may include 1) examining potential biases and guarding against generalizations and assumptions, 2) centering research on our neighbors’ priorities, 3) prioritizing participatory research and co-creation with communities, and 4) ensuring research drives meaningful actions for our neighbors.
- Partners with subject matter experts to support neighbor priority projects, including topics such as food insecurity, food access, food and health, nutrition, economic mobility, among others.
- Supports research functions and initiatives by providing project management functions, including coordination of meetings and communications, progress management, and support activities.
- Provides data management functions including locating data from original sources, data analytics plan development, checking data for accuracy and other data cleaning activities, and data aggregation. Manages dataset repositories and ensures data integrity and use upon request for data use.
- Develops data analysis protocols and conducts in-depth data analyses with quantitative and/or qualitative methods, as appropriate, and provides analyses of the data findings, from both original research and secondary sources.
- Uses gathered data to create data visualizations, executive summaries, and other deliverables that interpret and disseminate outcomes and key findings from research studies and initiatives.
- Provides support for personalized data analysis provided to the food bank network and partners interested in accessing data to use for programmatic and strategic alignment.
- Conducts literature reviews and provides analysis and summary materials to document findings available internally. Reviews and provides summaries of the literature on key research topics and best practice indicators of success.
- Supports the development of national and local protocols for understanding dimensions of food insecurity and related topics.
- Provides research, communication, and data analysis-related technical assistance to food bank and partner organizations, assisting in understanding the best practices in developing strong data collection and management structures.
- Collaborates with research managers and directors to provide technical assistance to other departments and food bank network members on a range of research initiatives and ongoing queries into the literature base.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience working with partner organizations, communities, and researchers to understand research needs, manage projects, and provide data and research tools to support data collection needs.
- Basic knowledge of statistical concepts and professional working knowledge in Excel and statistical software (e.g., R and STATA).
- Experience with quantitative and/or qualitative data collection, survey design, data management, and analysis.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- 3+ years of experience in applied research in the social sciences or related fields with statistical analysis preferred.
Required Leadership Competencies:
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
Feeding America’s goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.
Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.