his is an interim backfill role to cover for someone who will be out on parental leave. The duration of the assignment is targeted for 18 months starting in January 2019. However, the start and end dates may change.
The Analyst will support data collection, analysis, and use on the PNW team by developing infrastructure and repeatable processes that support ongoing data use.
Our ideal new colleague brings a passion for advancing equity in educational outcomes, as well as a belief that data and analysis can play a powerful role in that work. The successful candidate will have strong technical skills and be able to collaborate and communicate with diverse audiences. To be effective in this role, the Analyst will need to both take initiative and respond to feedback; as well as possess the flexibility to adjust work products to meet the team’s needs.
This is an 18-month LTE position based in Seattle.
The main scope of work will include:
- Leveraging existing data sources that are currently underutilized (e.g., grant reports, publicly available data, evaluation data) as well as collect additional data.
- Processing the data into a form that is useful for performance management (such as dashboards and reports).
- Conducting basic analysis to supplement external evaluation and monitoring projects, which will support the PNW team in increasing its use of data for strategy management and decision making.
- Collaborating closely with analysts on other teams to support evolution and improvement of shared processes and approaches.
Data management, analysis, and presentation
- Manipulate, extract, process, and analyze large datasets to develop insights and surface implications.
- Manage intake, cleaning, and maintenance of a wide variety of datasets.
- Help design and operationalize processes and systems which will feed data and analysis from grants and research back into key strategy and portfolio management decisions.
- Produce dashboards, slides, or reports that make the data and insights accessible to diverse audiences.
Research and writing
- Provide ongoing research, background information, and analytical support for program management; including drafting new proposals, scheduling and conducting interviews, scheduling meetings, developing and coordinating surveys, writing briefs, literature reviews.
- Draft sections of key documents, reports, and presentations for a variety of purposes and audiences, summarizing developments and recommendations for program areas and external partners.
Other project coordination
- Facilitate, coordinate and manage a range of projects and activities related to evaluating, developing, preparing, and monitoring specific grants, and/or other team activities.
- Proven experience translating unstructured data into actionable insights for decision making.
- Ability to understand various data structures and common methods in data transformation.
- Proficiency and comfort using R or Python for data manipulation and analysis. Experience with additional statistical packages (STATA, SAS, MATLAB) helpful.
- Strong experience with data visualization tools required, using Tableau or D3. Experience converting data displays into Powerpoint.
- Advanced knowledge of various analytical methodologies to assess statistical significance and importance. Comfort with basic descriptive, parametric and non-parametric statistical analyses required; experience with predictive modeling and algorithm design a plus.
- Experience analyzing and reporting data using equity lenses (e.g., using disaggregated data, calculating and communicating gaps, etc.).
- Knowledge of an array of research methods and the ability to decipher/interpret complex research findings.
- Ability to effectively synthesize and present information as well as to adapt tone and style for diverse audiences.
- Experience with database design and management preferred, including proficiency with SQL.
- Knowledge of social sector and education data preferred.
- Ability to collaborate and coordinate with other analysts and with users of the analysis.