Research Analyst

On behalf of our client, we are hiring a Research Analyst to join their team on a 12 month contract. This role is responsible for reviewing these data sets to ensure compliant and equitable partner support in the government and elections space. This role requires a person who is detail-oriented, capable of analyzing and reviewing large data sets, collaborating and building relationships with the partner managers, data managers and auditors.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage the preparation, review, and maintenance our managed partner set (MPS) made up of country specific government and political data.
• Partnering with regional partner managers to review the MPS books, provide recommendations based on the company policy and guidelines.
• Prepare manual lists based on desk research and workbooks of government and political data.
• Complete a QA process to review completeness and accuracy of completed workbooks.
• Leverage data & analytics skills to review data at scale.
• Upload data to CRM.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of experience in data operations, or other relevant space leading large scale global projects or programs.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to understand and simplify complex topics and explain to others in a way that is easy to digest.
• Experience analyzing and using data in solving and providing practical business insights, including reviewing and validating dashboards and reports, ensuring they accurately reflect key insights and metrics.
• Practical experience reading or querying SQL databases.
• Ability to use data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Excel) to extract, manipulate, and interpret data for business insights and monitoring performance and integrity of data pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the government and elections space, including international politics, political parties, world leaders and national legislators.
• 2+ years in software engineering, systems engineering, or technical product/program management.
• 2+ years with scripting languages (e.g., Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R).
• Experience developing and maintaining data pipelines.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in data analytics or government.