Data Associate

Overview

Organizational Overview

Do you want to help ensure that every organizer, advocate, and change maker in the progressive movement has what they need to create bold, people-powered change? Join us in making that vision a reality.

Launched in 2018, The Movement Cooperative (TMC) is a nonprofit member cooperative uniting more than 90 national and state-based organizations and over 1,400 affiliates through shared infrastructure and collaborative support. We bridge the gap between vision and capacity—democratizing access to tools, data, and strategic expertise that help our members organize more efficiently, campaign more effectively, and drive lasting impact across the movement.

As a cooperative, TMC is governed by and for its members, with a board(s) made up primarily of staff from member organizations. Together, we’re reimagining what’s possible when movement groups have the infrastructure they need to thrive.

TMC membership gives organizations access to our data warehouse and analytics platform and access to national voter/consumer files along with a wealth of other communal data resources. The Data & Technology department is the key to making the large amount of data available through TMC accessible and digestible to these organizations. The Data Associate provides the technical assistance that our member organizations need to get started and then ongoing support to utilize the data and technology resources from their TMC membership.

Data Associates will ensure that members’ immediate data and access needs are met, and that our team is organized internally and delivering high-quality work.

This is an excellent role for someone just starting their data career or transitioning into data. This role has substantial opportunity for growth and development and is a potential stepping stone to becoming a Data Analyst or Solutions & Analytics Engineer. Data Associates sit on the Solutions & Analytics Engineering team within the larger Data & Technology Strategy Department.

• Offer thoughtful, thorough, and speedy data and technology service and support to diverse members with varying needs and levels of technical expertise
• Ensure member staff have needed access and permissions to tools and resources
• Use SQL to complete list pulls, list matches, or other scripts and be the default reviewer for SQL changes
• Set up scheduled templated syncs upon member request
• Auditing user accounts across our critical tools
• Improve and create documentation around the Tech constellation processes essential for smooth team operations
• Updating, reviewing, and maintaining our data visualization tools and products to ensure members have access and get value from the visualizations available to them
• Escalating complex requests to the broader team for assignment to a Data Analyst or Solutions & Analytics Engineer

Skills

• Dedication to our members and furthering their reach and impact, along with broader progressive issues and campaigns
• Novice to basic SQL skills
• A desire to continuously learn new things
• Strong customer support acumen: an ability to distill complex ideas into simple language and can communicate with clarity and respect to satisfy member needs
• Able to communicate and collaborate within a team, other departments, vendors, partners, etc.
• Comfort communicating via remote work tools like Slack and Zoom
• Passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and a commitment to incorporating these values into your everyday work with your peers and broader TMC membership
• Excellent organizational practices, along with strong project and time management skills

Preferred but not required

• Experience interacting with (and even maybe analyzing) the voter file, census data and/or another large dataset
• Experience working on campaigns, electorally-focused, or advocacy organizations, in either a staff or volunteer capacity
• Experience with data visualization
• Moderate or better SQL ability
• Experience with NGP VAN, Action Kit, Action Network, or other commonly used progressive tools as a user and/or an administrator

Prolonged periods of working on a computer

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