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Intern/Volunteer, Business Analyst
Position: Intern/Volunteer, Business Analyst
Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Volunteer, full-time or a minimum of 3-days a week part-time
Term: 3-6 months
Next Start Date: as soon as possible

The Company...
Founded in 2005, Kiva is on a roll! Featured in Forbes, Inc., Time, CNN, Fox (to name just a few) & most recently on TV's Good Morning America, Kiva's mission is to alleviate world poverty. We're the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. To make this happen, Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions.
Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, & what effect it has on the people & institutions that lend, borrow, & manage it along the way. Our technology enables one-to-one interpersonal connections & lending at the lowest possible cost.

Job Description:
Kiva is looking for a motivated volunteer to work with our Director of Analytics to build out our Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform. For this project, you will help develop requirements for business intelligence, analyze and gain insight from our data to translate that into business and revenue opportunities. You will have hands-on experience working with data using SQL, Google analytics and Excel. In addition, you will have opportunities to work on ad hoc analyses that will help us gain a better understanding of our portfolio and constituents (lenders, partners and entrepreneurs).
Projects:
• Portfolio Dashboard — Help develop standard reports that provide an overview of our loan portfolio performance.
• Partners Analytics — Help maintain and enhance standard reports that provide performance updates of our microfinance partners.
• Lenders Analytics — Create standard reports and ad hoc analyses, such as segmentation analysis, to help us improve our lending and donation rates.

Ideal Core Skills and Experience:
• Knowledge of MySQL or other SQL skills
• Ease of using Excel pivot tables and charting capabilities
• Ability to work independently in a flexible work environment
• Experience working with Google Analytics
If you have more advanced skills, we can put those to use as well :)
Benefits
• Casual work environment
• Opportunity to join the team of the world's first online person-to-person lending platform
• References gladly given for successful participants

If interested...
• Send email to iwanttovolunteer@kiva.org including the subject line "Business Analyst"
• Include resume and brief cover letter explaining why you are interested and qualified
• Due to the high numbers of applicants for this position, we regret that we can only respond to candidates that we would like to interview.