In A Nutshell
Develop compelling and useful knowledge products for GivingTuesday stakeholders, including academics, data partners, the social/nonprofit sector, and the general public.
Responsibilities
- Creating impactful data visualizations and interactive data dashboards.
- Querying meaningful metrics and writing reports.
- Processing, cleaning, validating, and analyzing a wide range of traditional, structured data from organization partners and collaborators in the nonprofit ecosystem in order to generate actionable insights for the sector.
- Organizing, examining, and managing datasets.
- Delivering briefings and rapid-response/ad-hoc data analysis to support the Chief Data Officer.
- Coding and updating data pipelines to automate recurrent operations on core datasets for research projects.
Skillset
- Experience with analysis in a research context, conducting exploratory analysis and mapping data flows, integration of datasets, and reviewing data sources and tools.
- Familiarity with statistical methods including hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and sampling techniques.
- Experience working with scripting languages (Python, R) and data querying languages (SQL).
- Data vizualisation skills and an aptitude for translating technical outputs into compelling stories.
- Experience with software development tools and practices (e.g. version control).
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English and an ability to communicate clearly and directly.
- Interest in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector and in the use of data to promote better social outcomes.