Senior Analyst

Join our MEDA Team

At MEDA, we find meaning and fulfillment in investing in people’s lives. We work collaboratively to close the opportunity gap for low- to moderate-income Latino families in San Francisco’s Mission District by providing them access to affordable housing, career and small-business development, education and more. As MEDA continues to strengthen this community, we need more talented professionals dedicated to inspiring positive change – and driven to succeed in a fast-paced team environment. Be one of us!

Your Career Opportunity

MEDA is seeking a Senior Analyst to join the Evaluation team under the supervision of the Director of Evaluation. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for two core domains of our team’s work, program evaluation and organizational planning. This role will also include supervision of junior team members, interns, and fellows to support the following efforts.

Specifically, you will:

  • Provide research/evaluation support to each of MEDA’s departments/programs
    • Support development, implementation, and renewal of the long-term departmental Evaluation Plans that MEDA is developing with each of our six programs
    • Spearhead and support the development of individual, shorter-term evaluation projects and data activities stemming from these long-term plans
    • Conduct interviews/needs assessments with programs/departments and provide evaluation/research technical assistance and thought partnership
    • Design data collection instruments (surveys, focus group protocols, interactive activities, etc.), and facilitate/coordinate data collection activities
    • Conduct quantitative analyses of primary data, from MEDA’s client Salesforce database and other original datasets; as well as external demographic and socioeconomic data
    • Facilitate focus groups, key informant interviews, etc and conduct qualitative (thematic, observational, ethnographic, etc.) analyses of MEDA’s programs and community needs
    • Locate publicly available, external data sources and provide interpretation to support use by various departments
    • Develop presentations, briefs, reports, policy/advocacy fact sheets, and other evaluation products utilizing data visualization and data storytelling techniques
    • Support grant proposal writing and data requests
  • Support the Director of Evaluation in overseeing MEDA’s planning infrastructure
    • Maintain updates to MEDA’s Results-Based Accountability (RBA) Plans, which track year-to-year data around a set of priority performance measures and population-wide indicators that help us assess our progress towards our long-term goals
    • Facilitate staff from all MEDA departments in yearly RBA “Turn the Curve” activities, in which the Evaluation team guides staff through year-to-year data visualizations to drive collective decision-making around our priority areas for action the following year
    • Update templates and planning materials for departments to develop their team Action Plans at the end of each calendar year, and facilitate staff through creation of the next year’s planning documents
    • Draft agendas, presentation slide decks, group activities, and other documents necessary to facilitate group planning efforts
    • Implement and build on our preliminary plans to expand MEDA’s health equity work
    • Support continuous quality improvement efforts alongside program teams
    • Contribute to organizational compliance and risk management efforts that pertain to data
    • Drive other refinements or additions to the organizational planning infrastructure as needed

Your Keys to Success

To perform successfully in this role, you will need to leverage these key qualifications:

  • Disposition
    • Demonstrable commitment to racial equity and social justice
    • Positive attitude, sense of humor, flexibility, humility, self-starter, team-player, and can-do spirit
    • Attention to detail while still holding the big picture
    • Ability to take initiative and juggle multiple priorities, tasks (large and small), and deadlines simultaneously
    • Desire to learn as well as foster capacity building for others, seeing organizational challenges as opportunities for growth and innovation
    • Alignment with MEDA’s core values and organizational culture
    • Ability to collaborate with staff across a variety of different program areas, as well as fund development, communications, operations, and chief officer level staff
    • Willingness to work in thought partnership with staff from various levels and backgrounds
    • Professional background
    • 3-5 years of work experience in program evaluation, community-based research, organizational consulting, or other data-driven fields
    • Prior professional experience in programs, initiatives, projects, etc. that support the wellbeing of low-income and marginalized communities, especially those involving the input/participation of community members themselves
    • Graduate degree in social sciences, public administration, ethnic studies, or other related field. We also welcome candidates with a bachelors degree and 6+ years commensurate work experience.
  • Skillsets
    • Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, with a demonstrated record of work
    • Knowledge of data privacy guidelines with strong commitment to data integrity
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills
    • Experience in meeting facilitation around collective decision-making, both in remote and in-person environments
    • Mastery of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and/or Google Suite platforms, with technical proficiency in building spreadsheet formulas and data visualizations
    • Ability to navigate large population-level datasets, such as the American Community Survey (ACS) or California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
    • Fluency in Spanish is desired but not required

Preferred, but not required:

  • Prior experience in providing adult instruction and/or technical assistance
  • Knowledge of Results-Based Accountability (RBA) practices
  • Knowledge of Salesforce CRM platforms
  • Knowledge of Tableau data visualization software, GIS, or advanced statistical software (SPSS, STATA, etc.)

Your MEDA Experience

Do meaningful work in an innovative workplace, while being challenged for your professional growth.

Joining MEDA means having meaningful experiences that develop achievers – from across the Mission neighborhood and from within our organization. We find meaning and fulfillment in our work as we see this community thrive and are driven to achieve better outcomes by challenging ourselves to innovate in our ways of working.

We offer a market-leading benefits program that reflects MEDA’s values and mission. We invest in people’s lives and support our own people’s health and financial well-being.

Our core benefits include:

  • Comprehensive medical, vision and dental insurance for employees and their dependents – 100 percent covered by MEDA
  • 401(k) plan for employees
  • Generous paid time off — minimum of 20 days for new employees
  • Employee Assistance Program that offers free financial or legal counseling to employees or their families
  • Other forms of voluntary benefits

Apply now!

Click on the link below, including your cover letter and resume with the application form.
https://medasf.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=105