Data Visualization Analyst

Organization

Stand Together Foundation

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
Do you love to turn data into meaningful information? Are you great with creating compelling visualizations? Do you like making complex ideas simple to understand? If so, this may be the job for you!
 
As a Data Visualization Analyst, you'll join a core team that provides data-driven insights to our Stand Together Foundation in order to make informed decisions on where and when to take action and make investments.  You will work closely with internal customers to build custom dashboards and leverage visualization tools.  

Your Responsibilities Include

  • Own planning, development, and delivery of data visualization products across the portfolio, including: dashboards, charts, reports, graphs, slide deck presentations, collateral, and other products
  • Contribute to planning for dashboards at scale. The ideal candidate would think beyond the creation of single dashboards for single use cases. They would be able to consider strategy for enterprise-level solutions to data reporting and visualization needs across multiple project types and use cases
  • Contribute to decision-making about the technology stack used to author and publish internally- and externally-facing business intelligence and reporting
  • Create and maintain data model and connections between multiple input sources to support BI tools & projects.
  • Develop Customer-focused dashboards and reporting infrastructure for the Catalyst Impact Grant Program, our original survey research, and Impact team operations alongside customers and key stakeholders.
  • Single point iterations/reports that allow for various internal and external stakeholders to view the relevant results of their work.
  • Over-time representations for various internal and external stakeholders to facilitate decision-making and coaching.
  • Decision-making aids specific to high-value, high-risk opportunities requiring specific analysis.
  • Develop top-grade visual representations of results necessary to communicate findings in the public sphere.
  • Collaborate with the Stand Together Foundation data science team to maximize impact and customer value of those tools through visualizations.

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

  • Expert data visualization skills, specifically with Power BI or Tableau mindset (to inform business decisions) but knowledge with other BI toolset is acceptable.
  • Attention to customer needs and focus on understanding their decision-making, and soliciting and acting on feedback on products
  • Excellent listening skills, with a superlative ability to convert internal and external partners needs into actionable BI product requirements
  • Experience with UX and user experience research/practices (a sense of humility to solicit input from various consumers of data visualizations, which inform the development and design of the output)
  • Willingness to work across teams and lean into a collaborative, fast-paced environment
  • Work location is office in Arlington

What We Offer

  • A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans – especially the least fortunate.
  • A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.
  • Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.
  • Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.
  • Competitive health and wellness benefits.
  • Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.
  • Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro).
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.  Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.  
 
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.   
 
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.