Manager of Data Systems & Development

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time, exempt

Salary Range: $66,600 - $73,260

Benefits: High-quality health and dental insurance, paid vacation, employer-matched retirement plan

The Organization

At Thrive Scholars, we provide high-achieving students from under-resourced communities the opportunities they need to thrive at top colleges and in meaningful careers.

Our comprehensive and data-driven program model focuses on the key inflection points that can be the difference between graduating from any college and graduating from a top college with the grades, degree, career skills, and network needed to thrive in any career. Thrive Scholars originated in Los Angeles as South Central Scholars (“SCS”) twenty five years ago. Over this time, the organization has refined its program model and, in the last five years, has focused on expanding nationally; reaching more high-achieving students from under-resourced communities, growing the number of Scholars we serve; and deepening our program impact. Thrive Scholars has begun to grow its footprint with new summer program offerings in three additional cities. The organization has approximately 65 year-round employees and close to 200 summer employees.

The Position

As our Manager of Data Systems & Development, you will serve as a strategic leader on our Operations team with a strong connection to our Development team. In this role, you will ensure that our Development team has the data and data practices they need to succeed. This role is a key liaison and cross-team collaborator, making connections between the Operations, Development, senior leadership, Community Engagement, and Corporate Partnerships teams. 

The Manager of Data Systems & Development will lead management and utilization of our Salesforce platform, and an ideal candidate will have prior experience using Salesforce or a similar database. In this role, you will lead our fundraising operations, drive decision-making by the executive leadership team around fundraising and revenue, and lead cross-functional collaboration and project management. This role is best suited for a strong analyst and systems-thinker who can translate complex data into clear insights for leadership, manage up effectively, and build reporting and processes that drive better decisions across the organization. This is a full-time position reporting to the Chief Operating Officer.

Key Responsibilities

Development Data Reporting, Analysis, and Strategic Insights (50%):

• Lead the annual fundraising planning process, translating historical performance and pipeline data into clear revenue outcomes and strategic assumptions.
• • Serve as a strategic analytical partner to senior leadership through reports and spreadsheets, helping them derive actionable insights from data
  • Identify technical improvements year over year and create and drive solutions 
  • Design and maintain performance reporting that promote accountability and timely course-correction across the Development team
  • Collaborate with finance team to build detailed full-year revenue projections, aligned with current and historic pipeline performance
• Lead monthly and annual pipeline / revenue reviews, synthesizing data into clear narratives and recommended actions for leadership.
• • Identify emergent technical issues and quickly create and drive solutions within existing systems and processes. 
  • Track progress and promote accountability of development team members
  • Collaborate with finance team to update existing revenue projections
• Build and continuously improve reporting in CRMs and google sheets (including monthly cash and revenue reconciliation with the general ledger), increasing the speed, clarity, and confidence with which organizational financial health can be assessed
• Build and improve forms, reports, and dashboards to increase development, community engagement and alumni, and corporate partnerships team members’ access to and utilization of Thrive’s data systems.
• • Identify barriers to data adoption and proactively drive solutions that increase usability
  • Deepen use of existing to