Full-Time Data Analyst
Job Description
About Us
Founded in 2005 by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation pursues a mission of ensuring that all kids grow up in places that help them lead healthy lives – especially children disproportionately affected by poor health. We accomplish this by promoting healthier habits rooted in improved nutrition and greater physical activity, as well as strengthened social and emotional learning and development. In just 13 years, Healthier Generation has made great strides in fighting our nation’s obesity epidemic by taking the battle to where children spend the majority of their waking hours. Children impacted by our work are equipped for long-term success through better health, more energy and engagement in the classroom, and a lifelong approach to wellness. This is an exciting time to join Healthier Generation as its brand and programmatic work rapidly evolve to address a more comprehensive and holistic approach to children’s health. In addition to utilizing an evidenced based approach to systems change in thousands of schools, businesses and communities nationwide – the organization is advancing new strategies to improve individual and family health and ensure a generation of thriving kids. To learn more, visit www.healthiergeneration.org.
JOB SUMMARY
The Data Analyst will play a fundamental role working with experts across the organization to develop, implement and continuously improve data collection, analysis, visualization and reporting plans. The Data Analyst will understand internal staff needs, funder deliverables, and organizational strategies in order to create reports, dashboards, and presentations that enable Healthier Generation colleagues, leadership and stakeholders to make data-driven decisions that meet organizational goals. The analyst will also use technical and statistical best practices and methods to query, analyze and visualize data using complex data sets.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with colleagues across Healthier Generation to understand the overall business strategy, related activities and expected outcomes so that requirements for data integration, analyses, and reporting may be defined and implemented
Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations using custom SQL and 3rd party software (including Chartio)
Work with evaluation and other teams on the development of internal data collection and analysis plans, and be responsive to program and evaluation staff data needs
Write procedures/functions to make data evaluation processes more flexible or scalable across data sets
Write, maintain and troubleshoot SQL queries
Conduct data analyses and create data products in report or presentation format to meet staff and stakeholder specifications and timelines
Use data and tools to explain and address health disparities and promote health equity
Integrate findings from quantitative and qualitative data into organizational plans and operations (e.g., strategic plan, quality improvement plan, and organization-wide dashboards and reports)
Integrate various reporting components from multiple data sources (including Healthier Generation-specific data and extant public use data sets) for data mining, analysis, and interpretation to support the organization’s strategic plan
Use statistical analysis software (e.g., SAS, SPSS) to process and analyze data to identify trends and correlations among population indicators and performance measures to inform internal strategic planning, program delivery, and the wider field of children’s health
Ensures best practices and ethical principles are applied in accessing, collecting, analyzing, using, maintaining, and disseminating data and information
Support the communication of program monitoring, data analysis, and analytical findings to internal and external stakeholders and advise on how to use results
Tell meaningful stories with data to a variety of audiences using various types of analytical software, business intelligence and visualization tools
Other duties as assigned
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Technologies:
SQL (intermediate)
Data visualization software (e.g., Chartio, Tableau) (intermediate)
Statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS, STATA) – (advanced)
CRM, CDP and other data systems (intermediate)
Microsoft Excel (advanced)
Programming experience with frameworks including XML, JavaScript, and ETL (basic)
Demonstrates a strong understanding of data management and analytical principles
Expertise in analytics, statistics, data visualization, and programming
Possesses strong quantitative skills and able to clean and analyze large datasets
Strong problem solving, analytical and QA skills, with a commitment to accuracy and data integrity
Understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics and quantitative methods
Ability to extrapolate conclusions from descriptive and inferential statistical analyses
Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability and comfort to distill and convey complex subjects to a wide audience
Entrepreneurial, flexible, self-guided and a continuous learner
Strong organizational and project management skills
Ability to balance individual remote work within a collaborative team environment
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Ability to travel by car or plane up to 10% of the time
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; master’s degree preferred
5+ years of experience in:
database and model design and data segmentation techniques
data mining, cleaning, querying, analyzing, and organizing large, complex databases
SQL, data visualization software, and statistical analysis software
This job description is subject to change at any time.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is committed to Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
How to Apply
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