Design And Impact Analyst

Application Deadline: 14 August 2023

Department: Design & Impact

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Reporting To: Senior Director, Design and Impact

Compensation: $63,000 - $85,000 / year

Description

The Jed Foundation is a nonprofit organization that protects the emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation's teens and young adults. The Design and Impact team, which is responsible for co-designing programs and campaigns is looking for an Analyst.

The Design and Impact team (Deslmp) conducts both research and program evaluation. Additionally, DesImp is responsible for ensuring teams and leaders of actionable, relevant and timely data for decision-making.

In this position, you will serve as the Analyst to support day to day research evaluation needs across the Design and Impact team. You will play a key role in supporting projects across the team to support JED's broader team needs such as Academic Programming, Communications/Youth Engagement and Strategy, Development, Grants, Learning and Knowledge, and Technology teams. We are looking for someone with strong written and verbal communication skills who can work autonomously. In this role you will use your knowledge and background in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, support IRB protocol and development as well as assist with grant and manuscript development. We are looking for someone that has supported human subject research initiatives in the past, with experience with instrument design, project management, strong written and verbal communication skills and experience with tools such as Qualtrics, R and Power BI.

Key Responsibilities

Administrative and project management support to the Design & Impact (DesImp) team across other assigned projects, including facilitation of the following tasks:

• Note taking/summarizing in team and organizational meetings as needed
• Building out assigned tasks and affiliated project responsibilities into a project management platform (e.g. Asana) to ensure task completion and follow-thru
• Attend team and organizational meetings are needed
• Provide support to research projects managed by the DesImp team, including IRB support to sponsored research
• Completing duties/tasks as assigned by the Sr. Director, DesImp, as assigned
• Use technology platforms to contribute to and support implementation of key tasks/activities led by the DesImp team and behalf of other JED Depts
• Coordinate communication on behalf of DesImp across other JED Depts/teams to organize work to support implementation of key tasks/activities led by the DesImp team
• Support logistics related to survey instrument development, distribution, and reporting in support of various service related, grant related, and tech related projects support by the DesImp team, as needed

Support Design & Impact (DesImp) team engagement with JED colleagues/teams needs, including:

• Assist with aggregation of survey data for yearly reports
• Assist in data and stat requests for various communications, media, and advocacy requests
• Develop surveys and other data collection prompts to deploy with our various audiences to determine how they are using our web based resources
• Support evaluation of data collection facilitated by DesImp for other JED Depts designed to aid internal efforts for process improvement and to better understand impact
• Support to partnerships team to scope out various partner groups and assist with background research as needed
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative data to communicate key trends with stakeholders, providing data-driven recommendations to inform strategic programmatic growth and improve data equity and equitable implementation
• Participation in as needed meetings with external affairs team members to gather R&E needs in order to prioritize this work
• Create, manage, and deploy stat requests from external JED teams to Design & Impact team to ensure efficient and suitable responses/support
• Support data analysis and visualization efforts lead by DesImp for other JED Depts using SPSS, Power BI, Qualtrics and Excel

Skills Knowledge And Expertise

• Utilize qualitative and quantitative data to communicate key trends with stakeholders, providing data-driven recommendations to inform strategic programmatic growth and improve data equity and equitable implementation
• Support to partnerships team to scope out various partner groups and assist with background research as needed
• Support Design & Impact (DesImp) team engagement with JED colleagues/teams needs, including:
• Participation in as needed meetings with external affairs team members to gather R&E needs in order to prioritize this work
• Develop surveys and other data collection prompts to deploy with our various audiences to determine how they are using our web based resources
• Create, manage, and deploy stat requests from external JED teams to Design & Impact team to ensure efficient and suitable responses/support
• Support evaluation of data collection facilitated by DesImp for other JED Depts designed to aid internal efforts for process improvement and to better understand impact
• Support data analysis and visualization efforts lead by DesImp for other JED Depts using SPSS, Power BI, Qualtrics and Excel
• Assist in data and stat requests for various communications, media, and advocacy requests
• Assist with aggregation of survey data for yearly reports

Pay Ranges / Location / Travel Information

Pay Ranges:

The range listed on this job posting is based on JED's compensation posting ranges. Salaries may be higher or lower depending on experience and geographic location.

Location/Travel Information:

Please note that this position is largely remote but will require retreat/business meetings at JED's central office in NYC or other locations as designated by JED leadership. Additional travel may be required.