Graduate Research Assistant - Data Analyst: Migration

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY; Law; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative firm seeks a Graduate Research Assistant to support a vital research project focused on immigration legal services. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with a senior researcher, utilizing your skills in data cleaning and visualization to make a meaningful impact. As a remote position, you can contribute from anywhere while gaining valuable experience in a critical area of research. If you're passionate about data analysis and want to be part of a team dedicated to improving immigration services, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience using Stata for data cleaning and recoding.
• Ability to produce data visualizations and statistical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support data cleaning and recoding for immigration legal services research.
• Create visualizations from survey data for analysis.

Skills

Data Cleaning

Data Visualization

Statistical Analysis

Experience with Surveys

Education

Graduate Student

Tools

Stata

ArcGIS

Job description

Graduate Research Assistant - Data Analyst: Migration

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Posting Details

Position Information

• Posting Number: 20255401V
• Position Title: Graduate Research Assistant - Data Analyst: Migration
• Posting Type: Graduate Assistant
• Hours/week: 8-10 hours/week
• Eligibility: Graduate Assistant Semester 2025 Spring
• Location: Widger Law School Building
• Number of positions: 1
• Department: 983-Migration SIG
• Contact Name: Robyn Lieberman
• Contact Phone/Extension: 415-730-0416

Position Summary Information

Villanova University’s Strategic Initiative for Migrants and Refugees (“the SIG”) is working on a research project to identify and scale innovative models in immigration legal services, including building the enabling environment to expand the Department of Justice-Recognized Organization and Accredited Representatives program (“R+A”). In 2024, the SIG partnered with the Center for Migration Studies of New York to launch the first-ever national study of the R+A practitioners. We are currently looking for support from a data analyst to work with a senior researcher to clean/recode data files from two Qualtrics surveys and create data visualizations of the recoded data files.

Before accessing the data, the research assistant will take CITI training (about 3-5 hours) or have existing IRB clearances.

The position is virtual – you do not need to work from campus.

Timeline: The research team projects 8-10 hours of work per week, conducted over 6-8 weeks in February-April 2025.

Salary: The data analyst will be a Graduate Research Assistant for the Strategic Initiative for Migrants and Refugees, compensated at $18/hour.

To apply: Submit a resume/CV and sample data cleaning/recoding code in Stata to Robyn Lieberman, Principal Investigator, at [e-mail].

Requirements:

• Experience using Stata to clean and recode raw survey data, and to produce tables, figures, and other visualizations.
• Experience producing maps using ArcGIS or other statistical mapping platforms is a plus.

Additional Information:

Wage Rate: $18/hour

Closing Date (11:59pm ET): Open Until Filled