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**Deadline to apply: **Applications will be accepted for this position until August 22, 2025. Please note we may close the application early if we have quality candidates.
**Position Title: **Data Manager/Analytics Engineer (internal title: Data Manager)
**Hours: **Full Time
**Location: **Flexible, work from home (remote)
Start date: October 2025
**Reports to: **Data Director
**Eligibility: **This position is eligible to participate in Sunrise’s CWA Labor Union.
Compensation: $64,000-$79,033 annually depending on years of experience and whether the candidate lives in a high-cost metro area. More info about the special city allowance can be found here.
Benefits: Sunrise offers a benefits package with 100% paid premiums for health care, dental, and vision. We offer unlimited paid vacation days with minimum 20 days per year, parental leave, caregiver leave, unlimited sick time, and additional paid and unpaid time off. We also offer an annual professional development fund and tech office budget. Option to contribute to 401k.
Top 3 Skills
Analytics Engineering - Build and maintain the metrics layer in Sunrise’s analytical warehouse using dbt, including membership size, demographic metrics, event attendance conversion rates and more. Create and maintain syncs to ease this process
Project Management - Plan and manage projects in line with campaign and program timelines, including coordinating with relevant people
Reporting - Work with programs to plan and execute data collection, generating reports that provide actionable information to leadership teams and keep us accountable to members
Top 2 Skills re: Multiracial Cross Class Movement Building
Demonstrate a clear understanding of data’s role in movement organizing, and ability to create efficient, accessible and easy to use systems to strengthen our organizing across race and class
Able to clearly communicate your self interest in building a multiracial and cross class movement and coach/train others to do so as well
Overview: The Data Manager is responsible for executing projects that help our movement utilize data to drive organizing. This includes 1) using data transformation tools to develop the tables and data structures that our programs need, 2) building reports and dashboards that will be used by staff and members across the movement, and 3) working directly with program leads to plan and implement data collection.
You are a good fit for this role if you have a coding or data background, strong attention to detail, can balance multiple projects and deadlines, are passionate about movement work, and understand how data can drive organizing. If you fit this description, regardless of your specific background in coding or data, we encourage you to apply!
Responsibilities
Programmatic support - 15%
Work closely with team leads to develop data plans for their programs
Educate and coach staff and members on the data resources that we have available and how data can support their work
Experiment with new tools and technologies to determine what can support our organizing
Support staff and members with ad hoc data requests
Analytics engineering - 40%
Use transformation tools like Python, dbt and Hex to maintain a well-tested analytical layer
Implement data quality checks and data cleansing techniques to ensure data accuracy and consistency
Optimize data pipelines for performance and scalability to handle large volumes of data
Movement reporting - 30%
Deliver reporting to staff and members through memos, one-time and automated reports, and dashboards
Design new systems to make it easy for staff to have access to the data they need to support their work
Database maintenance and documentation - 15%
Do weekly uploads of data into EveryAction from various sources
Innovate and implement data hygiene solutions (e.g. to eliminate duplicates)
Document workflows and guides in the Data Team Library
During times when Sunrise is focused on electoral work, this position may shift to approximately 50% of work time being focused on electoral data. This may include:
Using tools like dbt to create pipelines to process and analyze data from our electoral platforms
Set up targeting that matches Sunrise’s electoral and strategy goals
Push lists to voter contact tools (phonebanking, textbanking, & canvassing) and ensure results are captured
Qualifications
Must have
At least 2 years or equivalent working in a data analytics, data science, data engineering, software engineering or equivalent role. Since so many coding and technical skills are transferable, if you have any relevant experience, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for someone who has the baseline experience to quickly tackle new coding languages or tools
Intermediate or above knowledge of SQL
Intermediate or above knowledge of Python
Experience building pipelines to extract, manipulate and analyze data
Advanced knowledge of Google Sheets or Excel
Ability to quickly learn how to use new data tools and platforms
Ability to train and coach staff and volunteers on our digital tools and processes
Ability to work with data to set goals and metrics to drive strategy
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences, specifically racially, ethnically, educationally and socioeconomically diverse communities
High level of self-organization; ability to be a part of multiple projects and teams, and work on shifting campaign and program timelines and deadlines
Commitment to the vision of the Green New Deal and electing progressive candidates
Commitment to growth, learning and both giving and receiving feedback
An understanding of the concepts of institutional and structural racism and bias and their impact on low-income and communities of color and how this might relate to our data collection and analysis processes
Ability to both take initiative/be self-directed, and ask for help when necessary
Nice to have
Experience volunteering or working in movement, organizing, or political spaces similar to Sunrise
Experience in a leadership role in a Sunrise Movement hub
Experience working with EveryAction or NGP VAN
Intermediate or above knowledge of Javascript
Experience working with dbt, BigQuery
Experience working with Hex or a similar data visualization tool
Experience working with Airtable
Experience with the backend of voter contact distributed tools/platforms (text and phone bank tools, VAN, Mobilize, Ballot Ready)
Experience using the voter file to build universes and set up voter outreach with electoral organizing staff
Experience using surveys to evaluate program success and collect feedback