Data and Analytics Manager - Jackson, MS

About the role

Founded in 1912 as an adoption agency, Canopy Children's Solutions is Mississippi’s most comprehensive nonprofit provider of children’s behavioral health, educational, and family support solutions. Canopy employs a diverse group of mission-driven individuals committed to honoring the voice of Mississippi children and families. Being an integral part of the Canopy team involves committing to the Core Values that drive our organization forward: The voice of our children and families always comes first; relationships matter and our differences make us stronger; we take great joy in service to others; our families and our communities deserve our very best. Canopy has been recognized as a Great Place to Work® for the fifth consecutive year and is one of only nine companies in Mississippi to earn this certification for 2025–2026. At Canopy, employees are committed to fostering a healthy workplace culture built on trust and driven by a shared mission: helping children thrive and empowering families to overcome extraordinary challenges.

The Data & Analytics Manager provides leadership for the organization's enterprise data, reporting, analytics, business intelligence, and data governance functions. This role is responsible for developing and executing the organization's data strategy, establishing governance and quality standards, overseeing analytics and reporting services, and leading the implementation and advancement of the organization's enterprise data platform. The Data & Analytics Manager leads a team of data professionals responsible for data architecture, engineering, analytics, reporting, and stewardship. This role partners with executive leadership, operational teams, program leaders, and technology stakeholders to establish enterprise data as a strategic organizational asset that drives operational excellence, innovation, and informed decision making. The Data & Analytics Manager plays a foundational leadership role in the selection, implementation, and growth of the organization's enterprise data and analytics capabilities while serving as a key advisor on data strategy, reporting, governance, analytics, and artificial intelligence enablement.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates effective time management through prioritization, follow-through, and adherence to project, reporting, support, and implementation timelines.
• Lead the organization's enterprise reporting, analytics, business intelligence, data governance, and data management functions.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year data and analytics roadmap aligned with organizational strategy, operational objectives, and business priorities.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, and ongoing management of the organization's enterprise data platform architecture, ensuring the selected solution aligns with organizational requirements, strategic objectives, governance standards, scalability needs, and analytical capabilities.
• Provide leadership and oversight for data architecture, data engineering, analytics, reporting, data governance, and stewardship activities.
• Establish and maintain organizational standards, policies, processes, and accountability structures related to data governance, stewardship, data quality, metadata management, privacy, security, and data lifecycle management.
• Partner with organizational leaders to identify, standardize, automate, and enhance key performance indicators, performance measures, and reporting frameworks that improve visibility into operational effectiveness, strategic objectives, and organizational outcomes.
• Establish and maintain performance measures that evaluate the effectiveness, reliability, adoption, value, and organizational impact of the Data & Analytics function, enterprise data platform, reporting services, and analytics capabilities.
• Manage the prioritization, intake, development, testing, deployment, and support of organizational reporting, analytics, and data-related requests.
• Ensure compliance with organizational, contractual, regulatory, privacy, security, and data-retention requirements.
• Develop and oversee dashboards, scorecards, reporting frameworks, self-service analytics capabilities, and decision-support solutions that improve visibility into organizational performance and outcomes.
• Oversee vendor relationships, consulting engagements