Do you want to ensure that progressive organizations have access to the best possible data, technology, and technical expertise? We know movement organizing and advocacy are more urgent than ever and many organizations and activists cannot easily access the tools to scale their work.
Launched in 2018, The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is a nonprofit founded with the aim of creating a cooperative community addressing these structural challenges. Currently, our membership stands at nearly 80 national member organizations, 13 state-based member organizations, and over 1400 affiliate member organizations covered under our licenses. We leverage the collective purchasing power of our membership to secure cooperatively held data and technology licenses shared across membership and invest in common infrastructure like technical staff to support our members in their work. TMC is a member cooperative -- our board is primarily elected by and made up of representatives from our member organizations.
TMC membership gives organizations full access to our data warehouse and analytics platform and unlimited access to national voter/consumer files along with a wealth of other communal data resources. The Data & Technology department is the key to making the large amount of data available through TMC accessible and digestible to these organizations. The Data Analytics team within the D&T department provides data analysis and insights into the member’s work so that they can make data-driven decisions. Data Analysts provide data strategy expertise to members so they can make the most of the data resources and research available to them via their TMC membership.
The Associate Director leading the Data Analytics team will work closely with the Director of Data & Technology to ensure Data Analysts can provide quality service to TMC members via data visualizations, analysis, data strategy, and data program best practices so members understand their data and how to use it to inform their work.
The Associate Director, Data Analytics will report directly to the Director, Data & Technology.
The core responsibilities of the Associate Director, Data Analytics are:
Support the Director of Data & Technology to:
Set priorities, vision, goals, and objectives for the team that relate to those of the Tech constellation and broader organization
Ensure Data Analysts are meeting member service SLAs
Coordinate with the Director of D&T, Product, and Member Experience to align the development of member-facing products with the broader team and organization’s respective road maps
Coordinate with the Director of Engineering, Director of Data & Technology and Associate Director of Data Analytics to align on teamwide code best practices and style guides
Ensure Data Analysts are writing code in alignment with best practices and style guides, including a process for thorough and timely PR reviews
Directly manage staff on the Data Analytics team
Project manage the internal road map for the Data Analytics team
Coordinate with the Director of Data & Technology to envision and support the implementation of our aspirational team culture and management practices
Create, implement, and maintain systems/processes for team-wide work management, including team sprint planning
Support TMC’s broader vision for moving to a more values-aligned tech stack and member offerings by providing reporting and other analysis that allows members to integrate these tools into their work and both members and internal TMC stakeholders to get the insights they need
Identify opportunities for data products that address the needs of various members across the cooperative
Identify technical opportunities for automation and growth across our work, in collaboration with senior contributors on the Data Analytics team
Support the professional growth and development of team members to ensure Data Analysts stay up to date on best practices for their work along with skills like project management, people management, and providing quality member service
Foster a collaborative and productive team environment, encouraging innovation and creative problem-solving.
Work within the larger Data and Technology team to contribute to internal work, including templatizing and documenting innovative deliverables for teamwide use, streamlining team processes, and other efforts to make our services as efficient and accessible as possible.
Support diverse member organizations with needs related to data analysis and visualizations, campaign data strategy, report building, and strategic data insights utilizing TMC’s data resources and research
Deliver high-quality, timely service to members in collaboration with other TMC departments as an individual contributor to the Data Analytics team
A successful Associate Director, Data Analytics will have:
At least 4 years of data experience
Demonstrated people management experience, ideally in direct management of staff
Demonstrated passion and aptitude for thoughtful problem solving and execution as it relates to teamwide systems and process
Demonstrated passion and aptitude for direct coaching, development, and mentorship of staff
Experience setting goals, roadmaps, or work plans for a team
Data and/or technical project management experience, including delegation, managing up, and managing expectations for themselves and projects
Proficiency with creating dashboards and visualizations
Experience with mapping
Advanced SQL
Experience with statistics
Understanding of campaign/organizing data best practices
Dedication to our members and furthering their reach and impact, along with broader progressive issues and campaigns
A desire to continuously learn new things and willingness to experiment
Experience interacting with and analyzing the voter file, census data and/or another large dataset
Excellent time management skills
Ability to communicate and collaborate with emotional intelligence across multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Comfort communicating via remote work tools like Slack and Zoom
Passion about diversity, equity and inclusion and a commitment to incorporating these values into your everyday work
We especially encourage applications from people who have any of these additional skills, which are preferred but not required:
Experience working on campaigns, electorally-focused, or advocacy organizations, with at least two full cycles in a data-related role
Experience with the analytic product development lifecycle
Experience with agile methodologies
Experience in the field of data science
Proficiency with pandas and NumPy libraries in Python
The Movement Cooperative is dedicated to providing all employees a competitive salary, world-class healthcare, dental and vision benefits, retirement, unlimited paid vacation and sick days, flexible holidays, and all-staff holidays, remote virtual office, paid parental and adoption family leaves, and health and wellness benefits. The salary for this position is $103,000 -$107,999. This is a full-time exempt position.
Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role and your qualifications, in PDF format, at https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tmc/jobs/7720418002
Here’s what you can expect from our interview process:
Application review
Skills assessment
Panel interview ~60 minutes
Interview with Director of Data & Technology Strategy and CTO ~30 minutes
Applications must be submitted by 6 pm ET on November 21, 2024.
We are looking to fill this position in January 2025.
Note: TMC will be closed for winter break December 23, 2024–January 5, 2025.
The Movement Cooperative recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
At The Movement Cooperative, we have a clear vision: to be the organization where a diverse mix of talented people want to be, to stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing the best to our members, and we know our organization runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.