Senior Analyst (Research and Evaluation)

Overview

This position provides critical research, data, and analytic support to the Judicial Council (JC), Executive Office, trial courts, and appellate courts and provides research consultation and support to JC offices and JC committees. This position will support the work of the Data Analytics Advisory Committee (DAAC), whose primary responsibility will be to make recommendations to the Judicial Council regarding the collection, use, and sharing of judicial branch data and information to inform decision-making, promote transparency, and improve the administration of justice while ensuring the security of nonpublic data and data sources. This position will lead and/or support the development and continued maintenance of trial court workload models, including the Resource Assessment Study (RAS) model and the Judicial Workload Study (JWS) model used to assess resource need in the California trial courts. This position will conduct policy and data analysis projects on complex and high-profile initiatives. The role requires strong analytical skills; the ability to use statistical software and conduct quantitative analysis; and the ability to multitask to meet deadlines. This position works independently and with limited supervision.

The Judicial Council
The Judicial Council of California is the policy setting body for the state court system and has constitutionally conferred statewide rule-making authority. A majority of Council members are California state justices and judges; however, the Council also includes lawyers, legislators, and court administrators.

The Judicial Council’s staff organization is a leadership, knowledge and service resource focused on improving access to justice for all Californians by innovating and responding to the changing needs of the courts and the public. As a government body charged with improving the statewide administration of justice, the Judicial Council has diverse responsibilities relating to court policy and operations. As employees of the council, every member of staff should view and approach their work as one Judicial Council with a public service mission that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Judicial Council strives for work life balance and offers an excellent benefits package that includes substantial vacation and holiday time, pension, medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible spending, up to $130 per month reimbursement for qualifying commuting costs, and retirement savings plans. The San Francisco office is only a 7-minute walk from the downtown Civic Center BART station.

The Judicial Council offers hybrid work arrangements for many positions. The successful candidate will be expected to work in person at the Judicial Council’s San Francisco office at least two days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and reside in the areas surrounding this location. Additional in-office days may be required to meet business needs and occasional travel within the state of California may be required.

Responsibilities

Conduct research, develop study design, consult with courts and subject matter experts, and interpret legislation as it relates to the workload models:

• Identify and define data elements and research questions associated with legislative mandates and JC priorities and integrate into research design.
• Develop methodology and study design for workload models, interim updates to models, and other analyses.
• Develop data collection protocols, conduct pilot testing of data collection tools and methods, develop training materials and conduct trainings.
• Share research with executive leadership, Advisory Committee and other stakeholders, and work with consultants as needed to develop and implement workload studies.

Lead research projects and provide research support to other JC offices:

• Develop research design, case file review, workload analysis, program evaluation outcome measures, statistical sampling methods and other qualitative/quantitative analysis and evaluation.
• Use statistical analysis in STATA, R, or other analytic packages to clean, weight, validate, and aggregate data.
• Manage process related to data mapping and response accuracy; draft reports, memos, or studies by applying subject matter expertise; create data tables, dashboards, and other presentation materials to convey study findings.

Serve as internal consultant to other offices and/or advisory committee staff on research and data issues to improve use of empirical data for branch policy making:

• Establish governance policies for data and develop a strategy for the client, working with others to identify specific programs, software and processes to compile and maintain data.

Build and support data analytics and visualization to help the Judicial Council move toward being a data-driven organization:

• Identify and help standardize data elements used across projects or groups.
• Build dashboards for management to pinpoint and understand data trends.
• Identify and analyze data that would improve understanding of the organization’s process, interventions, or impact of policies.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree, and four (4) years of analytical experience in program analysis, policy development, implementation, research, and/or evaluation.

Possession of a bachelor’s degree in a directly related field for the assigned discipline such as political science, public administration, statistics, mathematics, etc., may be substituted for one (1) of the years of required experience. An additional four (4) years of professional experience as noted above may substitute for the bachelor’s degree. Or, additional directly related experience and/or education may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

OR

Master’s degree in a directly related field for the assigned discipline such as political science, public administration, statistics, mathematics, etc. that included qualitative and quantitative research, and one (1) year of analytical experience in program analysis, development, implementation, research, and/or evaluation.

OR

One (1) year in the Analyst classification with the Judicial Council of California or one (1) year of experience performing the duties of a class comparable in the level of responsibility to that of an Analyst in a California Superior Court or California state-level government entity.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Knowledge of court case processing
• Proficient in conducting research
• Skilled in database creation, management
• Knowledge in R, SQL, Stata and other data management programs.
• Experience using Tableau, Power BI

Other Information

Please note, if you are selected for hire, verification of employment authorization to work in the United States will be required.

How To Apply

This position requires the submission of our official application, a cover letter, responses to the supplemental questions, and a resume. To ensure consideration of your application for the earliest round of interviews, please apply by please apply by 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2025 .

To complete the online application, please click the Apply for Job button.

The Judicial Council provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities who request such accommodation. Reasonable accommodation needs should be requested through Human Resources at (415) 865-4260.

Pay and Benefits

$7,710 - $11,565 per month

Some highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health/Dental/Vision benefits program
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Choice of Annual Leave or Sick/Vacation Leave
• 1 personal holiday per year
• Up to $130 per month reimbursement for qualifying commuting costs
• CalPERS Retirement Plan
• 401(k) and 457 deferred compensation plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• FlexElect Program
• Pretax Parking
• Long Term Disability Program (employee paid/optional)
• Group Legal Plan (employee paid/optional)

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Judicial Council of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Supplemental Questions

To better assess the qualifications of each applicant, we will review your responses to the following questions. Please indicate for which employer you performed these functions. Your answers should not exceed a total of three pages.

1. Describe your experience in conducting a research project, including research design, data collection, data management, and written summary of findings.
2. Describe your experience providing research results to internal or external stakeholders and/or government entities including presentations, summary reports providing statistical analysis reported data, and other means of reporting research.
3. Describe your experience using SPSS, Stata, R, or other statistical analysis software packages for conducting research and analysis to support policymaking.
4. Describe your experience using data visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI or other software) to convey information to stakeholders or help inform policy decisions.