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THE ORGANIZATION&nbsp;&nbsp;Promise Partnership Utah supports youth in their educational journey from cradle to career to ensure they can explore, dream, and take steps to realize their potential. Our approach involves being rooted in data and deeply collaborating with public and private sector partners to transform the education environment, so it produces more equitable outcomes and disparity gaps are eliminated. We operate on the deeply held belief that by working collectively we can have a greater impact on our youth than we could have alone.&nbsp;Promise Partnership Utah, United Way of Salt Lake, and 211 Utah (Salt Lake City team) are part of the Utah’s Promise organization. Together, we are committed to 100% kids and families thriving. Our workplace is fast-paced, friendly, adaptive, and grounded in our core values: relationships, continuous improvement, results, and equity. We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive benefit package, generous paid time off, and flexible schedules. People with diverse backgrounds and abilities are encouraged to apply.&nbsp;POSITION SUMMARY&nbsp;The Data Specialist supports the Senior Director of Data Strategy in leading efforts to build and maintain data integrity and privacy, make population level data available to the Promise Partnership, and support reporting and visualization of data for decision making. This position guides the collection, organization, understanding, visualization, and use of these data.&nbsp;&nbsp;ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS&nbsp;Data Management: Understand what data is available to help us describe our impact. Identify and act on opportunities to develop new data measures and disaggregate data. Be a go-to resource for identifying data to better inform programs and strategies.&nbsp;&nbsp;Data Infrastructure &amp; Privacy: Support the collection, organization, and reporting of data in Salesforce. Support team members in accessing and inputting high-quality, program/strategy-level data. Build and maintain data integrity and privacy.&nbsp;Analysis: Use basic data analysis skills in Excel to make meaning out of data, create relevant data comparisons, and assist team members in making data-driven decisions. Integrate qualitative data (including insights from community members most impacted by our current systems) into reporting, data visualization, and decision-making processes.&nbsp;Visualization: Work with partners and team members to make data more accessible to our stakeholders. Use data visualization software to manage and develop dashboards to visualize data. Train team members on how to navigate dashboards independently.&nbsp;&nbsp;Reporting: Develop standard and ad hoc reports using population/program/strategy-level data to inform impact reporting, proposal development, and continuous improvement efforts.&nbsp;Other duties as assigned.&nbsp;REQUIRED COMPETENCIES&nbsp;Technical Skills. Ability to anticipate the impact of emerging technologies and make adjustments to adopt new technologies (and to expand knowledge within the technologies they know well); and to build capacity among others to access, understand, describe, and use data and technology platforms. Technologies include but are not limited to: Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI, Domo, Asana, Excel, and other statistical packages (R, SQL).&nbsp;Data Analysis Skills. Ability to make meaning out of data by creating relevant comparisons and completing data analysis to demonstrate the impact of programs and strategies on target populations.&nbsp;&nbsp;Strategic Mindset. Ability to anticipate future needs/realities; to help stakeholders strategize around what data might help them move key work forward; and to draw connections across people, plans, and conversations.&nbsp;Communication. Ability to write and speak with diverse stakeholders; to discuss complex data topics in ways that are appropriate to the audience; and to use qualitative and quantitative data to tell stories that inspire action.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Continuous Improvement. Confidence and humility to ask questions, admit and address challenges, “fail forward,” and learn and test continuous improvement tools and techniques.&nbsp;Adaptability. Ability to operate with curiosity and confidence when things are uncertain or the way forward is unclear. Ability to deploy new skills and try new approaches as conditions change or opportunities emerge.&nbsp;&nbsp;Project Management. Ability to define a project’s scope, resource requirements, dependencies, steps, and timelines and to manage against these, while also attuning to relationship management needs.&nbsp; &nbsp;QUALIFICATIONS&nbsp;Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.&nbsp;&nbsp;Two years data and research experience, including analysis, reporting, and visualization.&nbsp;&nbsp;Experience working with data visualization software(s) such as Tableau, Power BI, or Domo. Proven ability to visualize data in user-friendly ways required.&nbsp;Experience organizing data in relational databases and complex spreadsheets. Advanced Excel skills. Salesforce experience preferred.&nbsp;Experience identifying meaningful measurements for strategy or program-level data, including quantitative and qualitative data.&nbsp;Experience designing, coding, and analyzing survey data.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS&nbsp;The employee regularly communicates with internal and external stakeholders and is required to communicate clearly, in oral and written formats and must be able to exchange accurate information. The employee must be able to transcribe, read extensively, prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer and other standard office machinery. The employee is required to regularly travel to locations outside of Utah’s Promise facilities to set-up and deliver presentations both (in person, in hybrid environments, and online).&nbsp;BENEFITS&nbsp;This is a full-time, exempt position with full benefits. $48,900 – 66,500. Salary commensurate with experience.&nbsp;APPLY&nbsp;Please visit UWSL’s <a href="https://uw.org/about/careers/" target="_blank">Employment Opportunities</a>. A complete application will include a resume and cover letter. You may contact <a href="mailto:jobs@uw.org" target="_blank">jobs@uw.org</a> if you have any questions regarding employment opportunities.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Way of Salt Lake

Data Specialist

Reports to:&nbsp; Director of Education Initiatives&nbsp; United Way of Northern Utah&nbsp;Mission: We Unite people and organizations to build healthy, stable and well-educated communities where individuals, families, and neighborhoods thrive.Goal:&nbsp;United Way of Northern Utah is seeking an Impact Facilitator to support the Education and Career Pathways initiatives. This position will provide leadership on efforts to create and refine processes that ensure every high school student has opportunities to develop skills that allow them to excel in high school, post-secondary education, and their chosen careers.&nbsp;&nbsp;This position will support the development and implementation of community-level strategies related to policy, community education, and cross-sector collaboration.&nbsp;Summary of Work: The Impact Facilitator’s core function is to facilitate impactful partnerships that are capable of&nbsp;community-level change, meaning develop solutions with community partners that improve the lives of large numbers of people, rather than focusing on a single program. This requires a unique individual who thinks in terms of systems and has the adaptive skill set to work across sectors, and political perspectives. Competencies such as results-based facilitation, systems thinking, project management, continuous improvement, and adaptive leadership are key for this role.&nbsp;Facilitating collaborative, community level outcomes is not for everyone. We seek a capable, energetic, results-focused team member who is comfortable with ambiguity and ready to take this work to the next level. Those who are successful must be comfortable with collaborative decision-making, possess a growth mindset, be open to feedback, and approach the challenges with both confidence and humility.Key ResponsibilitiesBackbone Facilitation<ul><li>Serve as the ‘backbone staff’ of education and career pathways initiatives, build on the excellent work that has been done to date by ensuring newly launched strategies are well aligned, monitored for impact, and build involvement from education and career readiness partners.</li><li>Engage government agencies, post-secondary programs, service providers, school districts, universities, data partners, community members, and any other relevant partners in moving toward system change through meaningful action.</li><li>Ensure partners develop shared accountability to community-level outcomes and measure impact both at the program level and the community level.</li></ul>Strategy Development and Implementation<ul><li>Using the Results-Based Action Cycle, monitor strategies for impact tracking both outputs and outcomes.</li><li>Develop and communicate strategic plans that concisely communicate the mission, vision, objectives, and activities of the shared work.&nbsp;</li><li>Work alongside research and evaluation partners to develop and implement data-driven processes and systems to inform the work.</li></ul>Project Management<ul><li>Follow up regularly with partners to ensure actions are completed between meetings.</li><li>Create and use process maps, flowcharts, logic models and/or other tools to ensure effective and efficient execution of the strategies/interventions developed by the partnership.&nbsp;</li><li>Ensure the partnership and working groups create specific performance measures for their interventions/strategies and activities to demonstrate their impact.</li></ul>Other Duties<ul><li>Attend and participate in other local, regional, and state level meetings as requested such as the Promise Partnership Regional Council.</li><li>Actively participate in work related to grant writing, fundraising, and sustainability of the initiative with corporate, foundation, and government representatives, as well as individual donors.&nbsp;</li></ul>Required Competencies<ul><li>Capable of both independent work and excellent team collaboration</li><li>Ability to adapt to a changing environment and different contexts</li><li>Comfortable working across sectors (e.g. business, nonprofit, etc.) and using different frameworks/terminology</li><li>Ability to plan, manage, and follow through on multiple, simultaneous projects</li><li>Self-driven - Take initiative to get work done without prompting</li><li>Assertive - Regularly approach partners, starts conversations, &amp; follows-up</li><li>Validating - Able to listen to understand partners’ efforts or experience and adjust solutions appropriately</li><li>Know when to stop and analyze a situation for redirection&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to build and maintain results-driven partnerships</li><li>Systems thinking and adaptive leadership</li><li>Humility, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity</li><li>Public speaking to both large and small audiences</li></ul>Position Requirements:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field (e.g. workforce development, public health, education, social sciences, etc.) or 3-4 years in equivalent work experience</li><li>1-2 years demonstrated facilitation and project management experience&nbsp;</li><li>Excellent organizational skills (including task and time management)</li><li>Demonstrated ability to manage several multi-faceted projects simultaneously with careful attention to detail and few mistakes</li><li>High standards of professional ethics and conduct</li><li>Excellent written and oral communication skills</li><li>Friendly and professional email and phone skills</li><li>Demonstrated competency with cloud-based productivity tools and document management systems such as Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides</li><li>Able to see both the details and the big picture</li><li>Equity mindset and comfortable discussing issues of race, socio-economics, and inequality in politically diverse settings</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Bicultural/bilingual English/Spanish</li><li>Master’s degree in related field</li><li>3-5 years working in human services, workforce development, education or related field</li><li>Experience managing large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects</li><li>Experience with Results Based Accountability and Results Based Facilitation</li><li>Familiarity and history of service within the landscape of community development and social services networks in Ogden</li></ul>Wage:&nbsp;$50,000-57,000 based on experience and qualificationsLocation:&nbsp;Ogden, UT (with hybrid/remote option as approved by direct supervisor). The majority of work will be done in the Weber County area.&nbsp;Hours: Full-time, exempt. United Way hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. United Way strives for employees to have great work-life balance and allows for remote work assuming it does not interfere with productivity, results,&nbsp; and/or quality of relationships with partners. Work hours are subject to change based on United Way events and activities happening in the community.Benefits:&nbsp;A comprehensive benefits plan includes vacation, sick, holidays, health, dental, vision, and life and an organization-matched 403(b) plan of up to 10% after one year.How to apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to Jill Browning,&nbsp;<a href="mailto:jbrowning@uwnu.org" target="_blank">jbrowning@uwnu.org</a>&nbsp;Closing date: August 6, 2024Posting Revised 7/22/2024

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