Associate Director, Data Analytics

Organizational Overview

Do you want to ensure that progressive organizations have access to the best possible data, technology, and technical expertise? We know movement organizing and advocacy are more urgent than ever and many organizations and activists cannot easily access the tools to scale their work. 

Launched in 2018, The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is a nonprofit founded with the aim of creating a cooperative community addressing these structural challenges. Currently, our membership stands at nearly 80 national member organizations, 13 state-based member organizations, and over 1400 affiliate member organizations covered under our licenses. We leverage the collective purchasing power of our membership to secure cooperatively held data and technology licenses shared across membership and invest in common infrastructure like technical staff to support our members in their work. TMC is a member cooperative -- our board is primarily elected by and made up of representatives from our member organizations.

Position Overview

TMC membership gives organizations full access to our data warehouse and analytics platform and unlimited access to national voter/consumer files along with a wealth of other communal data resources. The Data & Technology department is the key to making the large amount of data available through TMC accessible and digestible to these organizations. The Data Analytics team within the D&T department provides data analysis and insights into the member’s work so that they can make data-driven decisions. Data Analysts provide data strategy expertise to members so they can make the most of the data resources and research available to them via their TMC membership.

The Associate Director leading the Data Analytics team will work closely with the Director of Data & Technology to ensure Data Analysts can provide quality service to TMC members via data visualizations, analysis, data strategy, and data program best practices so members understand their data and how to use it to inform their work. 

The Associate Director, Data Analytics will report directly to the Director, Data & Technology. 

Responsibilities

The core responsibilities of the Associate Director, Data Analytics are:

• Support the Director of Data & Technology to:
• Set priorities, vision, goals, and objectives for the team that relate to those of the Tech constellation and broader organization
• Ensure Data Analysts are meeting member service SLAs 
• Coordinate with the Director of D&T, Product, and Member Experience to align the development of member-facing products with the broader team and organization’s respective road maps
• Coordinate with the Director of Engineering, Director of Data & Technology and Associate Director of Data Analytics to align on teamwide code best practices and style guides
• Ensure Data Analysts are writing code in alignment with best practices and style guides, including a process for thorough and timely PR reviews
• Directly manage staff on the Data Analytics team
• Project manage the internal road map for the Data Analytics team
• Coordinate with the Director of Data & Technology to envision and support the implementation of our aspirational team culture and management practices
• Create, implement, and maintain systems/processes for team-wide work management, including team sprint planning
• Support TMC’s broader vision for moving to a more values-aligned tech stack and member offerings by providing reporting and other analysis that allows members to integrate these tools into their work and both members and internal TMC stakeholders to get the insights they need
• Identify opportunities for data products that address the needs of various members across the cooperative 
• Identify technical opportunities for automation and growth across our work, in collaboration with senior contributors on the Data Analytics team
• Support the professional growth and development of team members to ensure Data Analysts stay up to date on best practices for their work along with skills like project management, people management, and providing quality member service 
• Foster a collaborative and productive team environment, encouraging innovation and creative problem-solving.
• Work within the larger Data and Technology team to contribute to internal work, including templatizing and documenting innovative deliverables for teamwide use, streamlining team processes, and other efforts to make our services as efficient and accessible as possible.
• Support diverse member organizations with needs related to data analysis and visualizations, campaign data strategy, report building, and strategic data insights utilizing TMC’s data resources and research
• Deliver high-quality, timely service to members in collaboration with other TMC departments as an individual contributor to the Data Analytics team

Qualifications

A successful Associate Director, Data Analytics will have:

• At least 4 years of data experience
• Demonstrated people management experience, ideally in direct management of staff
• Demonstrated passion and aptitude for thoughtful problem solving and execution as it relates to teamwide systems and process
• Demonstrated passion and aptitude for direct coaching, development, and mentorship of staff
• Experience setting goals, roadmaps, or work plans for a team
• Data and/or technical project management experience, including delegation, managing up, and managing expectations for themselves and projects
• Proficiency with creating dashboards and visualizations
• Experience with mapping
• Advanced SQL
• Experience with statistics 
• Understanding of campaign/organizing data best practices
• Dedication to our members and furthering their reach and impact, along with broader progressive issues and campaigns
• A desire to continuously learn new things and willingness to experiment
• Experience interacting with and analyzing the voter file, census data and/or another large dataset
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with emotional intelligence across multiple internal and external stakeholders. 
• Comfort communicating via remote work tools like Slack and Zoom
• Passion about diversity, equity and inclusion and a commitment to incorporating these values into your everyday work

We especially encourage applications from people who have any of these additional skills, which are preferred but not required:

• Experience working on campaigns, electorally-focused, or advocacy organizations, with at least two full cycles in a data-related role
• Experience with the analytic product development lifecycle
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Experience in the field of data science
• Proficiency with pandas and NumPy libraries in Python

Physical Requirements 

• Prolonged periods of working on a computer

Location Requirements 

• While TMC’s workplace is remote, we require staff members to reside in and work in the continental United States. 

Benefits

The Movement Cooperative is dedicated to providing all employees a competitive salary, world-class healthcare, dental and vision benefits, retirement, unlimited paid vacation and sick days, flexible holidays, and all-staff holidays, remote virtual office, paid parental and adoption family leaves, and health and wellness benefits. The salary for this position is $103,000 -$107,999. This is a full-time exempt position. 

Next Steps

Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role and your qualifications, in PDF format.

Here’s what you can expect from our interview process:

• Application review
• Skills assessment
• Panel interview ~60 minutes
• Interview with Director of Data & Technology Strategy and CTO ~30 minutes

Applications must be submitted by 6 pm ET on November 21, 2024.

We are looking to fill this position in January 2025. 

Note: TMC will be closed for winter break December 23, 2024–January 5, 2025.

 The Movement Cooperative is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Movement Cooperative recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

At The Movement Cooperative, we have a clear vision: to be the organization where a diverse mix of talented people want to be, to stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing the best to our members, and we know our organization runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.