Child Care Systems Analyst

The mission of First Children’s Finance (FCF) is to grow the supply and business sustainability of excellent child care. Founded in 1991, FCF provides business and financial assistance to business owners and leaders in the field of Early Care and Education (ECE). To achieve our goals, FCF works on three levels:
Individual Business Level, Community Level and Systems Level. FCF is a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Minneapolis that provides business development programs and financing to ECE providers in multiple states, with regional offices in four:
Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Oregon. For more information, see the First Children’s website at: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Job Title: Child Care Systems Analyst

Report to: Systems Coordinator

FLSA Status: Exempt

Location: National Systems Team

Pay: $76,000.00; $79,800.00 – bilingual

The Child Care Systems Analyst supports our growing analytical work in support of ECE systems change. FCF’s National Systems team provides research, consulting, and capacity-building services to child care systems leaders working to increase the supply and sustainability of child care businesses. We are seeking a curious and flexible systems thinker with experience and commitment to using data to inform systems change.

We strive to be a learning organization that embodies FCF’s values of innovation, equity, and capacity-building, and we are seeking a team member who excels in fast-paced, collaborative environments. The Child Care Systems Analyst will assist with developing and implementing research and evaluation plans across National System projects by generating, collecting, organizing, and analyzing data on policies, practices, funding streams, and trends.

The Child Care Systems Analyst will work with FCF clients. This work includes supporting cities, counties, states, Tribal Nations, and other entities as they seek to assess the business side of child care.

• Collaboratively develop, implement, manage, and communicate data collection and analysis efforts to support state, Tribal, and municipal clients to increase the supply and sustainability of child care.
• Support the development of research plans and proposals.
• Conduct both qualitative and quantitative research using tools such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, policy and document reviews, and public datasets.
• Clean, organize, and analyze data collected by FCF or our partners.
• Produce accurate and user-friendly reports, charts, and graphs that conform to FCF and client guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Create, maintain, and update user documentation and internal process guides on data definitions, analysis decisions, reports, etc.
• Learn and use new technologies, techniques, software, data types, tools, etc., as needed. Including, but not limited to, customer relationship management systems, internal project management tools, survey platforms, and data analysis tools.
• Oversee some aspects of day-to-day project management, including facilitating meetings, scheduling, updating project plans, communicating with clients, and ensuring deliverables are produced on time.
• Collaborate with the First Children’s Finance National Systems Team to develop and implement program evaluations to inform ongoing program improvement and measure impact.
• Provide training, consultative, and technical assistance support regarding data collection, analysis, dashboards, evaluation, and reporting to systems-change efforts in the ECE field.
• Present to external clients and partners related to data collection, analysis, and interpretation/application of findings.
• Collaborate with FCF clients and partners to understand their data needs…