Senior Data Analyst

Role purpose

Major responsibilities

• Analyze large datasets and develop dashboards, visualizations, reports, and models for fundraising performance, donor engagement, and external benchmarking.
• Provide strategic recommendations for fundraising effectiveness, campaigns, donor retention, and personalized donor experiences.
• Partner with Philanthropy and High Value teams and collaborate with fundraising, marketing, finance, and analytics colleagues.
• Present actionable findings to senior management and identify ways to improve data collection and reporting processes.
• Track analytics trends and tools and contribute to team capabilities and technical best practices in coding and statistics.

Candidate verification

• Applicants are asked to complete a brief data task using donors.csv and gifts.csv and upload a Word document with answers in the cover letter field.
• The posting says the verification exercise is not part of the skills assessment.

About IRC

Requirements

• Experienced, highly analytical data analyst with expertise in data analysis, statistical modeling, and reporting.
• Ability to create and maintain dashboards, visualizations, reports, and data models for fundraising performance, donor engagement, and external benchmarking.
• Ability to translate analytical findings into strategic recommendations and communicate complex insights clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate with fundraising, marketing, finance, and analytics colleagues and build strong business knowledge of stakeholder teams.
• For the application verification exercise, use any tool such as SQL, Python, R, or similar to answer the provided data questions.