Senior Analytics Consultant
About the role
CPAL, the Child Poverty Action Lab, operates as an unofficial research and development lab for Dallas, using data to rethink public systems in service of cutting childhood poverty in Dallas by 50 percent within a single generation. This role sits on CPAL's Strategic Analytics team, reporting to the Head of Strategic Analytics, on a small, senior team of analytical generalists working across housing, economic mobility, maternal health, education, and public safety.
You'll take an ambiguous ask and turn it into an answerable question, interrogate unreviewed data before building on it, and turn analysis into a decision-ready brief a program lead can use in front of a reporter, a funder, or a city partner, today.
Responsibilities
- Be the person a program lead calls when they need to know what the data actually says, by end of day
- Take ambiguous questions and turn them into answerable analytical questions
- Interrogate unreviewed data before building on it
- Turn analysis into decision-ready briefs for program leads
Qualifications
- 5-plus years of applied analytical work, typically at a strategy, boutique data science, or analytical consulting firm, or equivalent unusual-early-responsibility trajectory running analytics for a high-growth startup, agency, or civic organization
- Can point to work that reads like "assessed whether X changed Y," not just "built the dashboard that shows Y"
- Professionally fluent in Python with working SQL
- Can read and adapt existing R
- Consultant-style pragmatism: ability to pick the method that fits the question, the evidence, the timeline, and the stakes, and defend that choice to a named non-technical audience
- Daily working fluency with AI-assisted analytical tools with concrete examples of when you overrode or corrected what the AI gave you
Application process
To apply, create an account on provn.co and submit all required application artifacts. Instead of sending a cold resume into an ATS, you will complete a challenge built by CPAL and submit a short video walking through your approach. No time limit, no timers, no restrictions on AI usage. The challenge is a significant part of your candidacy—the hiring manager reviews every completed submission, and strongest candidates go straight to an interview round. Performance over pedigree. Proof over polish.
This role is based in Dallas, with a Dallas-preferred, flexible-for-the-right-candidate posture: remote-first candidates are considered, with occasional on-site time in Dallas. CPAL is open to sponsoring candidates for this role.
Applications close September 14, 2026.