Contract Data Analyst

Responsibilities

• We seek candidates with a strong analytical mindset, excellent R programming skills, and expertise in data visualization platforms like R Shiny, Tableau, or Qualtrics.
• The ideal candidate has 7 years of experience and a passion for transforming complex data into actionable insights to drive decision-making within the organization.
• Engages with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver timely insights.
• Conducts exploratory data analysis, wrangles data using R, and develops visually impactful interactive dashboards using Posit, Tableau, or Grafana.
• Translates analytical findings into clear, concise insights for non-technical stakeholders, provides data-driven recommendations to leadership teams, and collaborates with technical and non-technical stakeholders to define dashboard requirements and ensure visualizations accurately reflect strategic priorities.
• Ensures the accuracy of visualizations through rigorous testing, documents data methodologies, and creates user guides for interactive reports.
• Leverages Qualtrics for survey design and integrates this data with other datasets to enhance overall analytical capabilities.
• Designs and implements data ingestion pipelines to collect and consolidate data from multiple sources including APIs, databases, and flat files; cleans and preprocesses raw datasets by handling missing values, removing duplicates, and resolving inconsistencies; and applies transformation techniques to normalize, aggregate, and reshape data into formats suitable for analysis and reporting.
• Buidls, maintains, and iterates on Grafana dashboards to provide real-time and historical visibility into key organizational metrics; configures data source connections; and writes performant queries to support dynamic, interactive visualizations.
• Monitors pipeline health and dashboard performance, troubleshooting data quality or latency issues as they arise.

Qualifications

• A strong commitment to working toward Digital Promise’s mission and impact goals.
• An interest in redesigning learning systems to better serve those who are historically and systemically excluded.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional team members to ensure information is shared, projects are completed on time, and goals are reached.