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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;

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