Data Director

Data Director 

Poder Latinx is a civic and social justice organization dedicated to building and strengthening the political power of the Latinx community nationwide. The organization leads an integrated voter engagement program where all aspects of voter engagement, issue-based campaigns, leadership development, voting reform, voter protection, and narrative change form a continuous cycle of political engagement and consciousness. Through our work, Poder Latinx empowers and equips the Latinx community to become agents of change.

With field programs in six states (FL, AZ, GA, CA, WA, TX), Poder Latinx is entering an exciting period of growth. This involves investing in strong internal operational infrastructure, organizational planning, data-driven programming,  and internal processes to enable effective collaboration across the organization. 

The position: 

Poder Latinx is seeking a well-organized and experienced Data Director to be part of our senior leadership team, working closely with all department leads to develop, assess, modify, and implement our programs. The Data Director will play a leading role in informing integrated voter engagement strategies for progressive change. We seek an individual who will help build Poder Latinx’s data infrastructure as well as our program evaluation approach. We seek a candidate committed to protecting voter rights and advancing civic engagement, who brings a combination of technical and political skills. The ideal candidate will be able to optimize tools to improve direct voter contact programs, establish data-driven decision-making practices, and help clearly communicate Poder Latinx’s impact to diverse stakeholders.  The Data Director will have a background in evaluation, knowledge of the civic engagement field and voter contact best practices, proven team management experience, and a desire to help shape innovative civic engagement programs. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Guide and inform program and campaign decisions by using data on targeting, strategic communications, and paid media;
• Develop and implement reporting systems to aid in program and campaign management and evaluation;
• Manage, lead, and grow the data team including but not limited to hiring, training, evaluating staff, vendors, consultants and interns
• Coordinate and lead cross-team data discussions, managing discussions about turf and targeting as well as assisting organizational leadership in developing specific program;
• Collaborate with data staff at allied organizations as well as other thought-leaders in the field to raise the bar of our data work and to identify and implement experiments and tests;
• Present recommendations and analytics findings to external and internal stakeholders;
• Identify and offer solutions for gaps in campaign tools, resources, and research
• Design a learning and research agenda to support program design, decision-making, and improvement. This includes collaborating with program teams and consultants to assess messaging and outreach strategies. 
• Manage multiple data pipelines and integrate various data sources;
• Manage and lead Poder Latinx’s relationships with technology and data vendors, allies and co-operatives;
• Manage and lead Poder Latinx’s File and Volunteer platform (EveryAction) integration, training, and assessment; and
• Act as the in-house expert regarding research and cutting edge data and targeting practices, and advise state directors on efficiencies.
• Lead organizational VAN and campaign data trainings. This includes identifying the various training needs, creating the necessary training materials, and leading the presentations. Provide support, including training and troubleshooting, for the implementation of various campaign tools
• Lead Poder Latinx’s data analysis and coordination efforts, and provide strategic data-driven recommendations to partners on campaign field and targeting. Lead data presentation development, including the development of district profiles, landscape memos, and other documents to communicate data analysis to key stakeholders. 
• Contribute to the evolution of Poder Latinx’s integrated voter engagement, narrative change, and issue advocacy work by surfacing insights from data analysis and field trends. 
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years Data and Targeting experience in advocacy, electoral and/or issue organizing campaigns;
• 3+ years experience in hiring, building and managing teams directly;
• Strong SQL and analytical database experience 
• Familiarity with voter files and organizing tools, including but not limited to VAN, EveryAction ThruTalk, ThruText and Census data;
• Proven experience and comfort with data quality control;
• Experience connecting data to issue, advocacy and/or candidate voter outreach programs and targets;
• Ability to communicate complicated data and analytics reports, systems and process with a cross section of stakeholders including those with less data and targeting expertise;
• Familiarity with database architecture and modern data workflows, particularly as they relate to campaign data; and
• Experience managing across and collaborating with diverse teams, backgrounds, and expectations.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods, including shaping program evaluations. 
• Experience working with underrepresented and/or historically marginalized communities, preferably in political or organizing settings. Understanding of how power and privilege can show up in data-both in access to data and the data itself.
• Experience working within a national organization with programs across multiple geographies, strongly preferred. 
• Oral and written Spanish proficiency preferred. 
• Ability to travel as requested. 
• Strong understanding of and commitment to Poder Latinx’s vision and mission. 

The salary for this position is $80,000 - $90,000. Benefits include a generous health benefits and time off package including healthcare, dental and vision coverage at no cost to the employee, 3 weeks of vacation (1 week fixed) as well as sick leave and paid family leave. Retirement benefits include 403b with a match and life insurance and disability benefits included.

Benefits include generous health benefits and a time off package including healthcare, dental, and vision coverage at no cost to the employee, 3 weeks of vacation (1 week fixed) as well as sick leave and paid family leave. Retirement benefits include 403b with a match and life insurance and disability benefits included.