Project Manager
University of California Los Angeles


Requisition Number: 39159
Salary: $5,067 - $11,183 monthly

Position Description:
American prisons are deadly but obscure places. The Behind Bars Data Project's carceral mortality database is the only comprehensive, public accounting of the most basic fact about mortality behind bars: how many people died across state and federal prisons in recent years. Beginning in 2019?just before prisons and jails across the country became the epicenters of COVID outbreaks?the federal government effectively ceased its publication, and much of its collection, of carceral mortality data. This reporting failure seriously impedes the public's ability to know who is dying in prison, and why, what racial disparities exist in mortality outcomes, and, ultimately, what can be done to reduce preventable deaths, improve conditions inside, and hold officials accountable. The Behind Bars Data Project's data and analyses serve as a partial replacement for?and, in significant ways, improvement upon?the reporting that the federal government has effectively ended.

The Behind Bars Data Project obtains and cleans data from public records requests, compiles and publishes the data, and employs established public health research methodologies to understand its implications. Via its research and advocacy, the Project supports further oversight and reform of prison systems around the country while advocating for a renewed federal commitment to documenting deaths in custody. In addition, the Project collaborates with advocates, reporters, researchers, litigators, policymakers, and more to make sure that data are available, intelligible, and usable for their purposes.

With a new funding commitment starting in February 2023, the Project will begin a two-year focus on all-cause mortality in U.S. prisons. The Project will produce annual updates to its nationwide database of deaths in prison and intends to expand the database to better document the causes and circumstances of deaths in custody across agencies. The Project's research agenda will include national- and state-level demography of mortality in prisons and case studies on facility-level prison conditions that may drive mortality.

We are a small team and work collaboratively, though remotely. The work we produce is intended for both technical and broader public audiences.


Special Instructions:
This position is fully funded through January 2024, with an extension likely possible but dependent on additional fundraising.
The Project seeks a part-time Project Director excited about guiding us into the next stage of our work. The Project Director will work three days per week or an equivalent number of hours. This is a fully remote role; applicants need not reside in California.

For full application instructions and position description, please visit: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=87681

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy, https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/DiscHarassAffirmAction








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