350.org is looking for a Senior Data Specialist, who will be actively involved in every aspect of the data program behind 350’s effective digital advocacy campaigns work.

About 350.org

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

About the Senior Data Specialist

The Senior Data specialist will be handling critical data tasks, such as developing reports and dashboards, monitoring email deliverability, generally the quality of our data and designing tests to optimize our work.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Data warehouse and Reporting:

Develop reports to provide data in a clear and user-friendly format, helping the organization track KPIs and understand our performance.
Create dashboards and visualizations to help staff understand their progress and how our supporters interact with us.
Build detailed reports for key areas of our work, including fundraising, online actions and supporter engagement.
Create novel metrics for measuring and tracking our work.
Develop models of supporter behavior to allow us to be more effective.

Staff support:

Assist with data support requests from across the organization; working with the Product team to prioritize incoming requests and escalate requests as appropriate.
Support our digital campaigning staff with a variety of data tasks, such as targeting emails, uploading data from partners, developing segmentation schemes.

Data quality control:

Make sure our databases are clean and that the data is structured in such a way to make it possible to develop reports and dashboards.
Develop processes and procedures to maintain a high level of accuracy in our data.

Supporter user journeys:

Develop insights into how we bring supporters onboard
Research and design pathways to deeper engagement
Support other teams in evaluating acquired emails and their long term value.

Required Qualifications

At least four years experience working in data management and analytics.
Excellent knowledge of SQL, ideally with multiple variants.
Comfortable writing formulas and manipulating spreadsheets to analyze one-off datasets
Knowledge of statistical concepts, such as significance, sample size, confidence intervals, etc.
Excellent communication skills, including a sensitivity to cultural differences in communication styles.

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences

Knowledge of ActionKit, ActionNetwork, Control Shift, Python, Django, Redshift, MySQL, Mode Analytics, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Salesforce or similar CRM
Experience with Google BigQuery, Metabase or other data discovery tools
Prior experience with digital advocacy organizations

Bonus qualifications:

Knowledge of Google Adwords, Google Analytics, evaluating the ROI of ad campaigns.
Knowledge of other acquisition channels
Fluency in multiple languages
Knowledge of email deliverability and reputation management

We are looking for someone who is comfortable working both independently and in teams, highly responsive, and able to lead initiatives as well as take direction from others.

Position Type: Full Time

Application Deadline: This job is open until filled, or the hiring manager determines that they can no longer accept applications.

Compensation: Salary tier 2.3 Click here to view the salary

Location: This job can be performed remotely

Remote within the countries 350.org currently operates. Current countries are: Argentina, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Netherlands, Poland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom
Remote: in the following states in the US: CT, GA, MD, MA, ME, NJ, NY, NC, VA,, WA, or Washington, DC

Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Travel: From time to time, travel may be required, both internationally and domestically

Note for candidates based in the US:

This position will be part of the 350PWU bargaining unit and subject to the terms and conditions of the collective bargaining agreement. 350.org is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.(i) as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, 350 employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.

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