Senior Analyst, Fundraising Data & Analytics

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising Operations team as a Senior Data Analyst. You will report to the Senior Manager, Fundraising Data & Analytics, providing data-driven insights to improve fundraising strategies. Collaborate with fundraising and finance teams to develop revenue forecasting and A/B testing programs. Responsibilities include delivering actionable insights, developing KPIs, and transforming data for accessibility. You will work with various data tools, including dbt, Metabase, Superset, and Jupyter notebooks. This is a full-time position.

Requirements

• Highly proficient in SQL for data transformation and queries
• Skilled in developing impactful data visualizations in a business intelligence platform (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, or other tool)
• Practical statistical expertise and an understanding of digital campaigns
• Comfortable working with data-related Python and/or R packages for ad hoc analysis
• Experience using predictive modeling to answer actionable business questions
• Comfortable with giving and receiving code reviews through git (GitLab, GitHub, Gerrit, BitBucket, etc.)
• A record of clearly documenting your work for the benefit of your teammates and stakeholders
• Experience efficiently troubleshooting SQL queries and pipelines to find the root cause of a data anomaly
• A record of estimating work accurately and surfacing obstacles to on-time delivery in a timely way
• A practice of reaching out for support when stuck or blocked
• A growth mindset, enjoy experimenting with new tools and methods
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong value and mission fit with the Wikimedia movement and Wikimedia Foundation values
• Highly collaborative, comfortable working in a consensus-oriented environment
• Ability to work effectively in multiple cultural contexts

Responsibilities

• Deliver actionable insights and analysis on global fundraising campaigns and fundraising strategic objectives to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• In collaboration with fundraising leadership, developing and tracking key performance indicators across different fundraising channels
• Partnering with colleagues in fundraising and finance to develop multi-year revenue forecasting
• Delivering reporting, statistical analysis and providing guidance on test setup within our iterative A/B testing program
• Transforming and cleaning data to support analytics needs, making it more easily and quickly accessible
• Peer reviewing your teammates’ work to ensure data quality and reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a large, international fundraising program
• Worked effectively in a remote work environment
• Experience with open source technologies and communities
• Ease working in a terminal / command line environment
• A conceptual understanding of orchestration tools
• Experience working with noSQL and non-structured data

Benefits

• Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture
• The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$102,437 to US$161,869 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire
• We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants
• The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location