Who: Heartland Alliance
What: The Senior Information and Data Strategist is responsible for supporting and managing all aspects of projects to establish and operationalize organizational information and data strategy, including administrative functions like supervision as well as serving as an agency spokesperson and active representative in internal and external contexts. Individual accountabilities and work volume will be established through the development of annual Success Objectives, within the framework outlined below.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Information and Data Planning and Outcomes Assessment
- Supports the development and implementation of data and information strategy across Heartland Alliance. This includes assessing what participant data is needed to advance organizational strategy, identifying gaps, and providing technical assistance to companies as they develop processes for addressing data gaps.
- Serves as evaluative consultant to guide company-wide, initiative-wide, and enterprise-wide strategic planning in relation to participant outcomes
- Works closely with Innovation Team to establish information and data strategy needed to support design, development, and delivery of innovative programs.
- Serves as leadership liaison between Alliance, IT, and company data/evaluation initiatives.
- Provides ongoing Technical Assistance and thought work to HA leadership to manage and implement data and culture change.
Data Infrastructure Strategy
- Collaboratively establishes enterprise’s business requirements for participant data, works closely with IT department to develop technological solutions (including, but not limited to, a data warehouse and data visualization software), and monitors their implementation.
- Works closely with IT and company data owners to develop work plans that implement organizational data strategy.
- Leads the development of organizational learning agendas based on our participant data and monitors their implementation.
- Conducts project management to advance data strategy work plans.
- Plays leadership role on Heartland Alliance data governance committee.
Capacity Building & Technical Assistance
- Assists company and HA leadership and quality improvement staff in translating information and data into actionable lessons, and assesses the effectiveness of data-informed decision-making. This includes supervising the analysis of, developing lessons learned from, and communicating progress towards key performance indicators of Heartland Alliance’s strategic plan.
- Facilitates processes with program staff to help them learn from their data, set data goals, and develop work plans.
- Provides trainings, feedback, and other support related to best practices in internal evaluation (including research methodologies) and data strategy and implementation.
Project Design & Management
- Serves as lead project manager on multiple projects.
- Develops and implements project work plans.
- Manages partner relationships, including communication with clients and other research stakeholders.
- Develops expertise in data analytics and infrastructure, implementation science, and issue areas applicable to projects.
- Develops data collection and analysis protocols for third party implementers.
- Trains data collection team, including third party implementers.
- Oversees/manages/supports data collection, data analysis, data reporting and communications.
Ethics & Equity Commitments
- Adheres to research ethics as outlined in Institutional Review Board protocols and agency policies.
- Carries out commitments to equity, inclusion, and diversity in research design and implementation by:
- Lifting up marginalized voices in sample selection and research design.
- Analyzing data with a racial and gender equity lens when possible.
- Being culturally responsive when designing evaluation and data collection techniques.
- Incorporating understandings of institutional racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia into conceptual frameworks governing research.
Qualifications:
- Education and/or Experience: Master's degree in Social Sciences, data science, or related field and three years of social science research experience, or BA plus five years of related experience. Experience should include
- supervisory responsibilities,
- data systems development and utilization,
- communication of research findings to diverse audiences, and
- experience working with people with lived experience of poverty and non-profit programs.
- Commitment to social justice and equity: Passionate about social justice, ending poverty, and advancing racial and gender equity.
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.,) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
- Computer Skills: Proficiency in, R and/or SPSS, Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word required. Basic familiarity with in SQL programming and data architecture required. Experience in Tableau, Power BI, or other data visualization tools preferred. Proficiency in Internet Explorer, Outlook/Exchange; Windows operating systems; and other software routinely used by Heartland Alliance.
- Other Skills: Experience working with people who are very low income and people of different races and ethnicities.
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