Senior Specialist, Insights and Analytics

Senior Specialist, Insights and Analytics

About Strive Together
Strive Together is a national movement with a clear purpose: helping every child succeed in school and in life from cradle to career, regardless of race, ethnicity, zip code or circumstance. Our Cradle to Career Network is made up of 70 communities across the country, together reaching 14 million youth. Strive Together provides coaching, resources and rigorous approaches to transform the systems of opportunity in these communities.

Our current strategic plan has a bold vision: to put 4 million more young people on a path to economic mobility by 2030.

The Strive Together team is passionate, talented and dedicated to achieving our mission. We seek and value all kinds of diversity and work hard to eliminate inequities in ourselves, our organization and our communities. We support each other to try new things, have tough conversations and push for change. As we work, we share learning and progress, use data to make decisions and celebrate our wins.

You are a champion of equity in opportunity and are committed to ensuring all children succeed, regardless of race, ethnicity, zip code or circumstance. You are dedicated to bringing voice through data and are known to prefer influencing through others and using data to inform decision makers. You enjoy collaborating but are highly successful working independently. You thrive solving complicated problems using technology and analysis.

You have a strong eye for detail and are adept at setting up systems and processes to run efficient analysis.

At Strive Together, we’re dedicated to creating equitable pathways to economic mobility. To be successful in this role, you must understand the challenges faced by marginalized communities — including but not limited to barriers of race, ethnicity, class, ability, immigration status, gender and their intersections.

Reporting to the Vice President, Insights and Analytics, the Specialist, Insights and Analytics will work with team members across departments to understand needs, independently deliver impactful solutions, and extract insights from data. The Insights and Analytics team works to conduct analyses and develop strategies that move initiatives to action, facilitate conversations around moving communities and initiatives forward, and build technological solutions that solve access and dissemination hurdles.

• Plan and execute data analysis and research leading to actionable insights for Executive Team, internal departments, external partners, and national audience for more informed decision‑making. For typical engagements:
  • Develop and present content for internal team members, investors, network partners, national education and adjacent sector leaders to highlight needs, opportunities, and progress toward social outcome goals. Functions include extracting, cleaning, maintaining quality, aggregating, and visualizing data and then documenting processes
  • Prepare high‑impact materials, PowerPoint presentations, and memos to communicate key findings
• Develop analytical tools and data visualizations to support network and national partners and conduct analyses to advance strategies on key education priorities
• Engage in new, complex challenges with team and various stakeholders such as connecting local partnership education data with national education data or understanding the return on investment of various initiatives
• Work extensively in analysis tools, e.g., STATA, SQL, SAS, R, Python, etc. Work in Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, AMCharts, Alteryx, and/or ArcGIS.

• Support the Cradle to Career Network in identifying key population variables and data sources to understand local community needs and progress over time
• Provide consultation and strategic assistance to partners on matters of data analytics, building their capability to use data for continuous improvement
• Other duties as assigned

• 4+ years developing tools and processes to streamline analyses and extracting insights from data; public education experience is a plus
• Proficienc…