Data Discovery Specialist

Job Description: Monitor Evaluation Research & Learning Data Discovery Specialist (USA-Based)

Position Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional who can turn qualitative data into meaningful and highly relevant narratives for a wide spectrum of audiences.  Such audiences include program implementation partners, influencers, board members, governments, UN agencies, private sector organizations, universities, media, think tanks, donors, local community leaders and internal staff.

Global Give Back Circle is working in partnership with one of the world’s largest foundations on a groundbreaking program in Kenya which addresses the needs of rural adolescent girls and young women so they can transition into dignified and fulfilling work.  It is a highly calibrated transformational journey which integrates education, behavior change, mentoring, workforce readiness and giving back to one’s community.  It is highly innovative in its methodology and approach, resulting in data never seen before.  For this reason, we are seeking a team member who sees data in 3-D, someone who can connect the dots between what is evidenced through measurable data and what resonates among select audiences.

We are seeking a candidate who can translate technical reporting into conversational writing while simplifying complexity so that audiences understand what has been discovered.  We are seeking a candidate who gets oxygen from digesting volumes of data and transforming it into razor-focused one pagers.  We are seeking a candidate who understands the technical aspects of monitoring, evaluation, research and learning while viewing their communicable data discovery skills as their real superpower.

Reporting to the CEO, this candidate will play a pivotal role in translating the programmatic impact and insights which elevate the work of the organization to audiences which support program growth and long-term sustainability.

Program Overview:

The Global Give Back Circle HER Lab Model is a holistic economic empowerment, skills development, and poverty alleviation program targeting Kenya’s most marginalized adolescent girls and young women, in hard to reach rural communities, through workforce readiness and entrepreneurship program. By promoting both workforce/entrepreneurship skills development and personal development, the HER Lab model is a structured pathway to dignified and fulfilling work – and to empowering adolescent girls and young women to become advocates, tell their stories, become leaders, lift their communities and nurture the next generation.

This program is unique in its scope and reach: it reaches Kenya’s most marginalized adolescent girls and young women and provides more holistic and comprehensive programming than other similar programs. This position is a chance for candidates to engage in novel, unique, cutting-edge program implementation in gender empowerment.

Through sharp data discovery and conversational writing skills, this candidate will make user-friendly the technical work of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning team, for multiple levels of stakeholders globally.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Data Synthesis:
   • Stay up to date on all technical data being generated from the monitor evaluation research and learning team.
   • Through data presented in the technical reports, in addition to data presented in ad hoc research distill key findings, trends, and insights which are important to the organization’s various stakeholders and audiences.
   • Present technical data in a clear, compelling and user-friendly manner.
2. Data Discovery:
   • From the organization’s technical reports and collective data, apply a strategic lens to produce a variety of critical narratives (briefs, white papers, presentations, etc.) which communicate relevant information to specific audiences, as this will never be a ‘one size fits all’ communications strategy.
   • Start with the mindset of the intended audience and tailor narratives (briefs, white papers, presentations, etc.) which they understand and can relate to.
3. Data Support:
   • Stay audience centric and flag when / if the organization is missing a critical data collection opportunity which would have an impact on our thought leadership positioning and / or the decisions of stakeholders connected to our long-term sustainability.
   • Generate visualizations and graphics to support data expression.
4. Strategic Planning
   • Develop a strategic plan which connects organization’s various audience targets with the types of narratives they find valuable.
   • Coordinate with the monitoring, evaluation, research and learning team to understand when their data collection processes and critical reporting happens, keeping in mind that weekly data collection happens through the organization’s innovative journalizing programming.
   • Use the strategic plan as a roadmap, but be prepared to make a detour when opportunity knocks.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree + 5 years of experience, or Master’s degree + 2 years of experience in a relevant field (e.g., international development, social sciences, business, economics, journalism, communications).
• Exceptional writing skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear and compelling narratives.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools and software (e.g., Microsoft Excel, R).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality work.
• Eligibility to work in the USA.

Helpful info:

This role will be remote.

Send resume and cover letter to Amy_Miller@globalgivebackcircle.org