America Votes-posted about 22 hours ago
$125,000 - $135,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Washington, DC

America Votes is looking for an Analytics Director who can dig into questions from across the organization and lead the Analytics team in turning those questions into insights and guidance for staff and partners. The ideal candidate is a mid-career data practitioner with experience managing and coaching staff; a love of presenting complex data in actionable ways; and a deep understanding of direct voter contact program, data, and strategy. The Analytics Director will manage a team that includes a Data Analyst (focused on dashboards and visualizations) and Data Scientist (focused on complicated analysis at scale). This role will also work closely with other parts of the National Data Team, namely the Data Engineering and Data Support verticals. This is an exciting opportunity that leverages America Votes' unique position as the coordinating hub for independent groups on the progressive side - you'll have access to voterfiles, VAN data, and models with the mandate to make that data useful and accessible. This is a permanent position that reports to the Deputy National Data and Targeting Director and is not union eligible.

  • Team and Project Management: Serve as a manager and coach for the Analytics Team. Create a team roadmap, ensure projects are clearly defined and delegated, lead code review and other technical coaching. Collaborate with the Engineering and Data Support teams within the national data department.
  • Analysis, Insights, and Storytelling: Translate program questions into analysis plans, then lead your team to create and present actionable insights. The ideal candidate is a strong writer and presenter, and also has experience coaching other staff on communication skills.
  • Dashboards and Visualization: Set the strategy and roadmap for our dashboards and other visualization projects, then support the Data Analyst in making that vision a reality. Look for opportunities to standardize and automate visualization work.
  • Organizational Leadership: Build relationships organization wide and work closely with the Campaigns team to support the state-by-state electoral planning process, with a strong focus on data and analysis that centers equity.
  • Other responsibilities as assigned.
  • Political Experience: At least two cycles of analytics experience at a political campaign or at a progressive organization, with a strong understanding of voter contact strategy and experience working with voter files and VAN data.
  • Management Experience: At least one prior role as a people manager, with demonstrated experience growing your team's skills and collective impact.
  • Expert SQL skills: You should have worked in a cloud data warehouse before and be comfortable writing and optimizing complex queries, and be able to review and coach other staff on SQL code.
  • Familiarity with Python or R: Review code written by the Data Scientist.
  • Analysis and Communication: Demonstrated experience gleaning actionable insights from political data (voter files, field data, polling); ability to communicate clearly in presentations, graphs, and written memos.
  • Dashboards and visuals: Demonstrated experience creating dashboards, a deep understanding of visualization best practices and accessibility.
  • A service oriented approach to data work that prioritizes collaboration, supporting staff and partners, centering equity, and building for the long term.
  • Ability to work irregular campaign style hours and travel as needed, especially during the peak months of the electoral cycle.
  • Deeper experience with visualization or user experience design.
  • More advanced knowledge of analytics, data science, or machine learning.
  • Experience automating common analysis workflows or creating visuals programmatically, e.g. via google apps script or similar python APIs.
  • Experience with additional political data sets such as Voter Registration data, Census data, FEC reports, and digital or TV advertising data.
  • Past experience as an organizer or field staffer.
  • America Votes offers a competitive benefits package covering 100% of employee medical, dental, & vision insurance premiums, life insurance, long term disability coverage, monthly cell phone reimbursement, personal professional development funds, parental leave, and 401 (K) after four months of continuous service with the organization.
  • America Votes provides a generous paid time off policy with paid vacation, unlimited sick and safe leave, paid personal days, at least 10 Federal paid holidays including Juneteenth, as well as paid organizational time off from at least December 23 to January 1.
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