Evaluation Data Analyst

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