Data Analysis and Reporting Manager

About the role

Practical Farmers of Iowa is a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping farmers with the knowledge and resources to build resilient farms and communities. We achieve this through farmer-led events, on-farm research, educational content, funding, and technical assistance for adopting regenerative farming practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage data stewardship and reporting projects.
  • Collect farm production data (inputs, yields, practices, management systems).
  • Ingest geospatial data (GIS layers, field boundaries, remote sensing inputs).
  • Coordinate data pipelines across agronomy, field teams and external partners.
  • Audit readiness and continuous improvement of Practical Farmers' monitoring and reporting systems.
• Translate agronomic and geospatial data into greenhouse gas estimates and sustainability metrics.
  • Support Scope 1, 2 and 3 inventory development.
  • Collaborate with sustainability and science teams to refine emission factors and methodologies.
  • Design and implement processes to ensure consistency and efficiency of data stewardship and reporting subdepartment.
  • Maintain monitoring, reporting and verification data systems for audit readiness and third-party verification.
  • Develop and manage partnerships related to data stewardship and reporting that leverage both organizations' work toward PFI's goals.
  • Support supplier engagement efforts to improve upstream data quality and emissions factors.
  • Contribute to the development of a centralized emissions and sustainability data warehouse.
  • Improve automation between field data capture, modeling tools and reporting outputs.
  • Partner with agronomy teams to interpret field practices into data models.
  • Provide analytical support for lifecycle assessments and scenario modeling.
• Other duties as assigned or volunteered to support department or team projects.
  • Facilitate collaboration between departments and teams to achieve data stewardship and reporting project goals.
  • Work closely with data architecture and engineering teams to optimize data flows.
  • Support integration of geospatial information systems (e.g., ESRI), databases and reporting tools.

Requirements

• A master’s degree in a science field.
• Experience with measurement, reporting and verification systems and audit requirements.
• Familiarity with agricultural production systems and farm management practices (inputs, yields, soil practices, etc.).
• Knowledge of geospatial data systems (GIS concepts, field boundaries, remote sensing basics).
• Understanding of data governance, quality assurance and quality control standards and traceability requirements for reporting.
• Experience building and managing structured datasets combining farm production and geospatial data.
• An ability to analyze large, complex datasets and translate them into emissions and sustainability metrics.
• Experience working with data tools such as Excel, structured query language, Power BI and geospatial information systems platforms (e.g., ESRI).
• The ability to analyze large, complex datasets and translate them into emissions and sustainability metrics.
• An ability to collaborate to design and improve data workflows and reporting pipelines across teams.
• Experience with conducting quality assurance and quality control on emissions inventories to ensure audit readiness.
• The ability to communicate technical data clearly to agronomy, sustainability and leadership teams.
• An ability to connect field-level agricultural data to enterprise emissions reporting systems.
• The ability to interpret incomplete or imperfect datasets and still produce reliable outputs.
• The ability to maintain high attention to detail in high-stakes reporting environments.
• The ability to prioritize multiple reporting cycles, deadlines and stakeholder needs simultaneously.

Qualifications

• A doctorate in a science field is preferred.
• Experience with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) and agricultural emissions accounting.
• Knowledge of lifecycle assessment (LCA) principles and carbon accounting methodologies.
• Experience with sustainability disclosure frameworks (science-based targets initiative, carbon disclosure project, international sustainability standards board, international organization for standardization standards).
• Experience operating or coordinating emissions modeling tools (e.g., Fieldprint-style calculators, lifetime cycle assessment tools).
• Experience collaborating with data engineers and architects to improve system integration and automation.
• The ability to manage cross-functional coordination across agronomy, data and sustainability teams.
• The ability to translate technical monitoring, reporting and verification outputs into business insights and decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including employee health insurance with 100% employer-paid premium, generous paid time off, flexible hours, six weeks of fully paid parental leave and 5% automatic 401k contribution after one year of employment.
• Specialty benefits include contributions towards spouse or dependent health insurance, stipends for remote workers and reimbursements for fitness costs, CSA subscriptions, student loans or eco-friendly purchases.
• This is a full-time position with potential for hybrid work. There is a minimum requirement of one day per month at the Ames, Iowa, office and seasonal travel around Iowa and surrounding states.
• The beginning salary range for this position is $58,000-$62,000 with annual opportunity for salary increases and position advancement.