Posted to IASSIST on: 2017-10-18
Employer: VentureWell
Employer URL: https://venturewell.org
Description
The Evaluation Data Analyst will apply their social strong and growing data skills to collect, wrangle, explore, structure, join, and visualize data from a variety of resources to help us drive greater insights through our data. You will be part of a dynamic team of analysts and evaluators that seeks to make sense of complex data sets and support a variety of stakeholders.
- Manage, merge, clean, and store data in a regular and reproducible fashion using a combination of tools (including Salesforce, R, Excel,Tableau)
- Extract data from a variety of databases and data collection tools
- Conduct simple data analysis using Tableau, R, and Excel and prepare statistics, tables, and graphs to convey those results
- Code, analyze, and translate data into insightful visualizations and dashboards in Tableau, R, and Excel
- Spearhead the creation of automatically-populating templates, visualizations, reports and dashboards
- Conduct information and data searches using a variety of web-based tools
- Communicate effectively and collaborate closely with analysts, evaluators, and other staff members to achieve organizational goals.
- Communicate with staff and clients to help them understand tools, data, and reports
Required:
- Love data!
- Strong team player who enjoys “customer service”
- Active learner who adopts new tools and work processes quickly
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where things change quickly
- Able to maintain organized workflows and adhere to timelines
- Proficient in the management, preparation, and joining of datasets in a reproducible fashion
- Applied social science research experience (either through academic training or work experience)
- Proficient in the use of business intelligence software (e.g., Tableau) and/or programming languages (e.g., R, Python)
- Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel) and comparable Google products
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- BA/BS required or equivalent experience, with a quantitative academic or work background
Candidates for this position must not require sponsorship for U.S. Work Authorization
Preferred:
- Knowledge of nonprofits and evaluation
- Knowledge of the science and technology sector or start ups more generally
- Strong experience with a data-oriented scripting language like R or Python
- Experience using Salesforce, especially custom reporting and managing integrations
- Experience programming survey or forms in a survey software (such as SurveyGizmo, Qualtrics, or SurveyMonkey)
- Experience acquiring data using APIs
- Experience using Zapier or other tools to automate actions between webbased applications
- Experience with web scraping
Archived on: 2017-11-13