Data analyst
Description :
Executive & Administrative Headquarters (117 West 124th St)
$65000 - $80000 / year
Position Summary : At Children’s Aid, we believe that all kids have limitless potential. Our dedicated staff provide comprehensive supports for nearly 50,000 children and families in targeted, under-resourced New York City neighborhoods.
We know what it takes to ensure children grow up strong and healthy, and ready to thrive in school and life : excellent education and health care, social-emotional support, and strong, stable families.
The mission of the Office of Performance Management is to create sustainable data-driven operations in programmatic and central divisions in order to increase effectiveness and achieve mission-driven outcomes for children.
The Data Analyst contributes to and drives this through database creation, management, analysis, reporting, and collaboration with a diverse array of programs and central departments.
She or he possesses superior data management and analytic skills, as well as a proven ability to communicate in writing and verbally with a wide range of stakeholders to foster accountability and learning, including effectively translating technical issues and concepts to a non-technical audience.
Responsibilities :
- Create and / or strengthen systems for data collection, management, reporting and analysis including documenting all procedures.
- Create databases to aggregate data from multiple sources to track process and outcomes measures.
- Create and produce recurring and ad hoc reports of operational and performance indicators for all levels of staff, Board, and external audiences.
- Analyze actual performance against projected performance as well as trends within and across programs on a regular basis.
- Assist staff with accessing and analyzing data to inform strategic and programmatic decisions.
- Manage the exchange of data pursuant to data sharing agreements, observing all confidentiality and use requirements.
- Train staff on data collection, entry, management and analysis.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience :
- A Bachelor of Arts or Sciences with an emphasis on database design, development, and data management for the social or health sciences required; Master’s preferred.
- Minimum three years of demonstrated, high level of expertise with Excel and working with large datasets.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL scripting.
- Experience using various third-party business intelligence or report writing tools (e.g., SAP Business Objects, SAP Crystal Reports, IBM COGNOS, etc.)
- Knowledge of statistics and statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS).
- Experience with an object-oriented programming language (e.g., JavaScript, VBA) preferred.
- Experience conducting outcomes reporting in a non-profit or education setting.
- Customer service orientation; ability to work collaboratively; ability to understand data needs from the perspectives of various audiences.
- Ability to create and maintain strong interdepartmental relationships to advance the mission of the organization and ensure positive outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, meet deadlines and problem solve.
- Comfort performing hands-on work as well as assisting in strategic projects.
- Results-oriented perspective and commitment to operational excellence.
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