Senior Data Analyst

Overview

Every year, millions of animals enter shelters across the United States -- and the data behind their stories has the power to transform how shelters and communities care for them. As Senior Data Analyst at Shelter Animals Count (a Program of the ASPCA), you'll be at the center of the nation's most comprehensive effort to collect, analyze, and share animal sheltering data.

Your work will put credible, well-documented data into the hands of shelters, researchers, media, and national partners -- and help ensure the quality and integrity of the dataset behind the field's most important estimates and insights. If you're a highly organized analyst who loves working with real-world data and wants your skills to drive real-world impact for animals and the communities that serve them, this is your role.

The Senior Data Analyst reports to the Senior Manager, Data Science, and will work closely with other members of the Shelter Animals Count (SAC) and broader Strategy team. They will serve as the point person and end-to-end owner of SAC's data request pipeline -- leading the intake, scoping, execution, and delivery of data & analysis requests from internal stakeholders and external partners -- while leading data quality investigations and contributing to machine learning, statistical modeling, and analysis projects.

They will serve as the key point of contact for a diverse group of stakeholders, external partners, interns, contractors, and vendors to prioritize and execute on insights and data requests, providing prescriptive analytics to numerous animal welfare topics. They will bring a high level of organization, accuracy, and integrity to data analysis and reporting.

Shelter Animals Count (SAC) is a nationally recognized brand dedicated to collecting, analyzing, and sharing data on animal sheltering across the United States and Canada, and will join the ASPCA's Strategy Team. The Strategy department has five verticals:
Strategy and Planning, Research, Impact Measurement and Data Science, Project Management Office, and SAC. The Strategy team uses strategic and data-driven processes to guide organizational direction, drive effective decision-making, and deliver actionable, evidence-based insights to shelters and communities. Strategy serves as a thought partner to ASPCA departments; facilitates collaboration among departments; and connects the dots to maximize efforts to drive our goals forward.

Shelter Animals Count, established in 2012, is dedicated to collecting and sharing reliable shelter data to improve welfare and outcomes for animals and communities. By serving as a neutral, industry-wide data collection entity, Shelter Animals Count provides valuable insights into shelter operations, trends in animal welfare, intake and outcomes, and the challenges faced by shelters, rescues, and communities. Shelter Animals Count collaborates with organizations of all sizes to encourage data submission, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the state of animal welfare.

This data-driven approach supports evidence-based decision-making, ultimately helping to improve welfare and outcomes for animals, guide policy, and increase transparency within the animal welfare community.

SAC's Research & Data Science Team works across three core focuses:
Analytics & Insights (answering internal and externals and translating SAC data into reports, dashboards, and stories that describe what is happening in sheltering), Data Quality & Observability (working closely with our technology systems and data pipelines to ensure the data behind those answers is accurate, stable, and ready for use), and Research, Prediction & Measurement (causal inference, experimentation,…