Do you want to use your empirical 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 are seeking entrepreneurial researchers to join our team in leadership roles. Title is negotiable to reflect research and managerial skills and experience. 

Primary Responsibilities: 
+ Developing and executing research plans on a wide range of cutting-edge topics, such as civil forfeiture, occupational licensing, qualified immunity, zoning/housing, and 4th Amendment rights. 

+ Working closely with IJ attorneys and researchers to generate research questions that advance our issues and to identify the strongest methods to answer them. 
+ Finding datasets or creative ways to build them, as well as managing data collection. 
+ Manipulating and analyzing large datas...