Data Analyst – Development (Fundraising)

Providing essential services to field staff and volunteers. Offering this support frees field staff for direct ministry with kids, optimizes financial contributions, and ensures careful stewardship of the mission’s assets (both tangible and intangible).

Young Life requires all employees to sign a Statement of Faith. We recommend you read this statement before applying for any position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and analytics using tools such as SQL, Power BI, Salesforce, and Excel.
• Curate, analyze, and present key data insights to enable strategic decision-making and support organizational goals.
• Manage data quality and ensure the accuracy of reports and analytical models through collaboration with data quality and technical teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver customized analytical solutions, including prospect lists and operational reports.
• Build and optimize data models and workflows for reporting, leveraging Snowflake, SQL, Power BI, and other enterprise tools.
• Provide training and support to foster self-service reporting and data literacy across teams.
• Support data architecture development and ensure high availability and performance of reporting datasets.
• Collaborate with platform and data resources to ensure a high level of data availability and performance for all datasets used in reporting and analytics.
• Collaborate with key business staff and leaders to design and build analytical solutions to meet the operational reporting and decision support requests.
• Assist in building a business intelligence center of excellence to support a wide variety of reporting and analytics needs.
• Engage in assigned data related projects across the analytics and data ecosystem.

Working Relationships:

• Collaborate with leadership, technical teams, and cross-departmental staff to identify and deliver analytics solutions.
• Engage with project management and data architects to align data efforts with organizational goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a business, technical, or data-related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, or a related role.
• Proficiency in modern BI tools and platforms such as Power BI, Salesforce, Workday, and Excel.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL; experience with Snowflake and Python preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in nonprofit organizations is a plus.

Job Specific Working Conditions:

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience and location. 

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