Individual Placement - Evaluation and Data Visualization Participant

Student Conservation Association•San Francisco, CA

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a paid six-month program specifically designed for individuals who are either early in their careers or graduating college. The position provides an immersive work-based learning experience and professional development opportunities in the park. A high school degree or equivalent is required and the minimum age qualification for this position is 18 years. The Parks Conservancy’s Innovation and Impact Hub is nested in the Executive Branch and is a department within our organization dedicated to driving informed decision-making, fostering a culture of evaluation, and measuring our impact. The Innovation and Impact Hub establishes organizational processes, systems, and tools to support this collaborative work across the Conservancy and park partners. The team manages data tools to capture key insights on visitors, programs, and organizational metrics, and analyzes park-wide data to generate impact reports. This is a non-exempt, six-month position of 32 hours /week. The Evaluation & Data Visualization Placement will support evaluation, survey design, data analysis, and reporting projects that help the Parks Conservancy understand program outcomes, participant experiences, alumni engagement, and organizational impact. This role will help standardize and compile program-participant survey data, contribute to cross-departmental impact reporting, and develop clear visualizations and dashboards that support storytelling and leadership decision-making. This position will work closely with the Impact & Evaluation team and collaborate with staff across branches, departments, working groups, and data-system partners to gather, clean, synthesize, and visualize data from multiple organizational sources. This is an excellent opportunity for a student or early-career professional interested in evaluation, applied research, data visualization, survey methods, impact reporting, and data storytelling in a mission-driven nonprofit/park partnership setting. There are also required professional development activities throughout the parks and will have the opportunity to join networking events with fellow members.

Requirements

Minimum 18+ years old; must have a high school diploma or equivalent experience.
Enrolled in or recently graduated from an educational program, or has comparable hands-on experience, with interest in evaluation, data visualization, data analytics, statistics, social sciences, public administration, nonprofit management, business intelligence, information systems, or a related field.
Experience with data visualization, data analysis, evaluation, survey design, or descriptive statistics or willingness to build skills through hands-on work.
Strong attention to detail and comfort working with spreadsheets, survey responses, and qualitative or quantitative information.
Experience working in a team environment and independently.
Analytical thinking and curiosity, with the ability to communicate insights clearly in writing, visuals, and conversation.
Basic skills with Microsoft Office suite of tools, including Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel.
Respect for confidentiality of data and personal information.
Demonstrated effectiveness working on diverse teams and commitment to inclusive practices.
Good communication skills and respect for others. Responds to texts and emails in a professional and timely manner.
Self-motivated; able to work independently once provided direction, proactive approach to problem-solving, learning new tools, and asking thoughtful questions and willingness to ask for support as needed.
Collaborative mindset and ability to work with staff across departments and program areas.
Interest in parks, community engagement, evaluation, impact measurement, and mission-driven work.
Participants must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent or agree to obtain one or be enrolled in an institution of higher education.

Nice To Haves

Experience with at least one data tool such as Excel / Google Sheets, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, SQL, Python, R, SurveyMonkey, or similar platforms is helpful.

Responsibilities

Help create a short park staff and alumni survey to better understand how many current park staff participated in youth or intern programming, what roles they now hold, and how alumni continue to connect with the parks.
Work with program staff to finalize surveys, ensure standardized questions are included and updated, and support distribution and collection through SurveyMonkey or other approved tools.
Compile, consolidate, and summarize survey results into branch- and organization-level metrics, including measures related to welcoming and belonging, demographics, and program experience.
Participate in the Impact Reporting Workgroup, a cross-departmental and cross-functional organizational workgroup focused on impact reporting and decision-making.
Pull and organize datasets from multiple programs and departments, including Excel files and other approved sources, to support Power BI dashboards, graphs, and reporting visuals.
Create clear, accessible, and visually compelling charts, tables, dashboards, and summaries for internal reporting, leadership discussions, and broader impact storytelling.
Support standardization of data visualizations, reporting formats, and metric definitions across programs and departments.
Support organizational reporting by extracting and synthesizing data from existing datasets, creating dashboards and data visualizations, and developing charts that communicate key organizational health metrics and strategic plan outcomes. Prepare visual content for quarterly and year-end reports, presentations, and communications used by leadership, development, communications, and other teams.
Help identify useful patterns and reporting approaches that show how people engage with the parks through programs, membership, donations, communications, events, and other touchpoints.
Support deeper analysis and data visualization of the Youth & Intern Alumni Study dataset of ~2000 alumni after the current study concludes October 2026.
Develop program-specific analyses and visualizations for youth and internship programs (Urban Trailblazers, Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders, Linking Individuals to their Natural Communities, and Academic Internship Program) to help understand outcomes, engagement patterns, and which strategies may be most effective for each program.
Cross-reference alumni engagement data across available systems to help understand whether alumni are currently volunteers, donors, members, newsletter subscribers, event participants, or otherwise engaged with the Parks Conservancy and park programs. Share insights with staff planning and organizing alumni engagement activities.
Support year-end reporting and storytelling that communicates a fuller picture of alumni experience and current engagement.
Help document data workflows, survey processes, dashboard logic, metric definitions, data sources, and reporting methodologies.
Contribute ideas for improving survey quality, data consistency, reporting efficiency, accessibility, and visualization practices.
Support program participant surveys for Volunteer, Community Science & Education, Youth, and other programs as needed.
Assist with ad hoc evaluation and data requests from internal stakeholders with guidance and supervision.