Core to its work, UWSL convenes and facilitates outcomes-focused partnerships that exist to change conditions of well being for entire populations. The Data Manager leads the data team's effort to make population and program-level data available to these partnerships in order to facilitate data-driven decision making. This position guides the collection, organization, understanding, and use of these data and maintains key external relationships in order to maintain data access.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Data support for collaborative action. Using the StriveTogether Theory of Action and related tools, act as partnership staff’s point of contact on data related topics:
- Maintain a robust understanding of UWSL’s outcomes-focused networks and of best practices in using data to drive for social change.
- Create, maintain and/or oversight of results-based action plans and other tools and documents that guide partnership decision-making.
- For every partnership at every level, make total population size, trend data, and disaggregated proficiency data available.
- Work with partnership staff, data team members, and external partners to use this data and other resources to identify key drivers and validate key drivers using local data.
- Work with other team members to mine and make accessible to UWSL staff data on bright spots specific to each outcome and community, in ways that help partnerships tell their story and scale promising approaches.
- Serve as the data lead for all activities related to UWSL’s participation in the StriveTogether network.
- Data access.
- Act as point person and relationship manager with state agencies (including but not limited to the Utah Department of Health, the Utah State Board of Education, Utah System of Higher Education and Utah College of Applied Technology, and the Department of Workforce Services), the County, and other partners to determine ways of working together, negotiate and execute sharing agreements, and secure quality, timely data.
- Ensure that, at least annually, UWSL has accurate and up-to-date disaggregated data on each of the outcomes and indicators around which it convenes partners.
- Participate in external data committees as agreed upon with supervisor.
- Data support for marketing and engagement. Maintain a deep understanding of what data is available to help us describe our impact. Be a go-to data team member to liaise with UWSL’s marketing, resource development, and public policy teams to provide timely, accurate data that helps us tell our story and engage people in our work.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field. Master’s Degree preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- Two years data and research experience, including proficiency with Excel for reporting and visualization.
- Experience working with Tableau preferred. Proven ability to visualize data in user-friendly ways required.
- Experience organizing data in relational databases and complex spreadsheets. Advanced Excel skills.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- The employee regularly communicates with internal and external stakeholders and is required to communicate clearly, in oral and written formats and must be able to exchange accurate information.
- The employee must be able to transcribe, read extensively, prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer and other standard office machinery.
- The employee is required to regularly travel to locations outside of UWSL facilities to set-up and deliver presentations in both physical and electronic forms.
Compensation/Benefits:
Salary: $61,000 to $70,000 per year
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
May 30 2018
Active Until:
Jul 1 2018
Hiring Organization:
United Way Worldwide
industry:
Nonprofit