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Crisis Text Line New York City, NY
$119k-147k (estimate)
Full Time | Social & Legal Services 5 Months Ago
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Crisis Text Line is Hiring a Remote Senior Research Scientist

Role: Senior Research Scientist 

As a Senior Research Scientist within the new Research & Impact team, you will play a key role in foundational efforts to deliver a consistent flow of high-quality, insightful research aimed at evidencing and optimizing impact of Crisis Text Line’s service and improving practice, policy and the broader field of mental health support globally. Reporting to the Principal Research Scientist, your work will focus on leveraging the opportunity of more than 7.5 million crisis conversations since 2013 to conduct research, monitor emerging trends, and generate insights to help people thrive, specifically uplifting underinvested communities. As part of a small but nimble team working in collaboration with divisions across the organization, you will work to identify impactful research questions, conduct queries and analyze data, write and review reports, and deliver actionable insights to amplify Crisis Text Line’s impact for texters, volunteers, and society across languages, cultures, and contexts. You will work in close collaboration with all members of the Research & Impact team, as well as with cross-functional partners in data analytics, clinical, volunteer, user research, engineering, product, and external-facing teams. 

Responsibilities: 

Deliver new research insights for Crisis Text Line and the field

  • Design and lead collaborative strategic research sprints on priority issues, adhering to rigorous, industry-standard research methods and documentation practices 
  • Frame and propose clear research questions to query and analyze internal data in combination with external research in order to monitor and identify emerging trends
  • Contribute to the production of a steady flow of actionable insights that situate Crisis Text Line at the forefront of the field through compelling research briefs, reports, and presentations

Contribute to strategic cross-functional and external collaborations

  • Build strong cross-functional relationships and take on priority cross-team collaborations on strategic assessments, evaluations, and research, as appropriate 
  • Track industry trends and developments and support appropriate partnerships with other organizations and experts under guidance of senior leadership
  • Support strategic funding opportunities (contracts and grants) to optimize Crisis Text Line’s impact for texters, volunteers and society

Meet organization-wide business needs for data and insights verification and content

  • Provide direct support and expertise in the ongoing management of organization-wide internal data insights and research requests as a member of the core workflow team
  • Lead or support the development or review of all external-facing content referencing Crisis Text Line data and insights, as appropriate 

Maintain agility in the context of global change

  • Serve as a model of agility, consistently demonstrate the ability to adapt to meet the rapidly-evolving needs of the world, and corresponding adjustment to priorities of the organization and team
  • Actively support individual and team equity, diversity and inclusion knowledge, and apply understanding through ongoing learning, reflecting and dialogue opportunities

Qualifications:

  • 4 years of combined training and experience in computational social science, natural language processing, computer science, statistics, mixed-methods evaluation or research, or related disciplines
  • Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (such as Python, R, MATLAB, C , Java, Go), and with SQL.
  • Knowledge and demonstrated experience using rigorous quantitative or mixed research methods, analyzing data using multiple approaches, and reporting results
  • Basic understanding of ML theory and practice and able to extract insights from text using different NLP techniques (text parsing, lemmatization, tf-idf, topic modeling, etc.)
  • Skills in translating research results into non-technical insights for broad consumption
  • Experience working in cross-functional or matrix teams

Job Summary

JOB TYPE

Full Time

INDUSTRY

Social & Legal Services

SALARY

$119k-147k (estimate)

POST DATE

10/06/2022

EXPIRATION DATE

01/24/2023

WEBSITE

crisistextline.org

HEADQUARTERS

NEW YORK, NY

SIZE

50 - 100

FOUNDED

2013

CEO

NANCY LUBLIN

REVENUE

$10M - $50M

INDUSTRY

Social & Legal Services

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About Crisis Text Line

Millions of people are quietly suffering every day. They quietly struggle with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, bullying, suicidal thoughts, and more. Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 support for people in crisis in the United States via a medium people already use and trust: text. And we use insights from our work to develop and share innovations in prevention, treatment, and long-term care. Crisis Text Line trains volunteers (like you!) to support people in crisis. With over 70 million crisis messages processed to date, the org is growing quickly, and so is the need. Crisis Text Li...ne is a not-for-profit tech start-up, born from the rib of DoSomething.org. More
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