Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

About Us

Portland State University (PSU) Foundation fuels the mission and priorities of Oregon’s most diverse, innovative, and affordable research university by raising and stewarding philanthropic gifts that transform lives and communities.

Recognized as one of Oregon’s best non-profits to work for five years in a row, we are a community of purpose-driven professionals who lead with heart, act with trust, and keep our mission forward in everything we do. Guided by creativity and collaboration, we foster a strong sense of belonging—empowering every team member to show up authentically and think boldly.

At PSU, more than half of incoming first-year students identify as BIPOC, nearly a quarter are parents, and half are the first in their families to attend college. When PSU graduates thrive, families transform, communities prosper, and innovation expands. The PSU Foundation plays a vital role in advancing this impact by inspiring donors, engaging alumni and community partners, and stewarding resources to Portland State University with integrity and purpose.

In this new role, you will help PSUF make better decisions by turning data into opportunities and recommendations. Your work will help identify prospective major donors, highlight trends in engagement and giving, and provide the analysis needed to support fundraising strategy. You will partner closely with colleagues across the organization to answer important questions, solve problems, and uncover new opportunities.

You may enjoy this role if you:

• Love exploring data and uncovering insights that help people make better decisions.
• Enjoy asking questions, solving problems, and connecting dots.
• Are happy partnering with colleagues and translating complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Take ownership of your work while openly sharing knowledge and learning from others.
• Enjoy continuous learning and exploring new tools, techniques, and approaches.
• Are motivated by seeing your work inform strategy and drive meaningful outcomes.

The Senior Advancement Business Intelligence Analyst serves as the Foundation’s senior technical expert for business intelligence, reporting, analytics, and data visualization. This role designs, builds, and supports business intelligence solutions that help leaders and frontline teams understand fundraising performance, pipeline activity, donor engagement, campaign progress, operational trends and future opportunities through advanced analytics and predictive insights.

This position translates business needs into scalable reporting, dashboard, and analytics solutions. The role partners closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, develop technical solutions, validate data, improve reporting processes, and strengthen the organization’s ability to use data in decision making.

• Serve as the Foundation’s senior technical expert for business intelligence, reporting, analytics, dashboards, and data visualization.
• Design, build, test, document, and maintain BI solutions that support fundraising performance, campaign execution, pipeline management, donor engagement, and operational effectiveness.
• Execute the BI priorities, translating strategic direction into practical reporting and analytics solutions.
• Partner with fundraising, annual giving, alumni engagement, donor services, finance, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business questions into usable reporting and analytics tools.
• Recommend technical approaches, reporting structures, data models, and visualization methods that improve accuracy, usability, scalability, and sustainability.
• Build and maintain reporting datasets, dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analytical tools using approved platforms and standards.
• Provide subject matter expertise on BI tools, data structures, reporting logic, and analytics methods.

• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, scorecards, self-service tools, and visualizations and analytical models that support fundraising strategy and engagement outcomes.
• Build and maintain KPIs,…