Data Analyst

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance, and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. Huron’s GG+A global philanthropy business is one of the world’s pre-eminent philanthropic management consultancies.  We have worked across the world, providing philanthropic counsel to the higher education, not-for-profit, healthcare, arts and cultural sectors. 

Today, we help organizations realize the full potential of their missions through the growth of philanthropic support.  Our primary mission is to assist our clients in the substantial improvement and acceleration of their fundraising and engagement programmes, seeking to align those programmes with the institution’s core mission and ensure their sustainability.

You’ll help our clients by providing a robust, data-informed strategy across the donor journey.

Position Summary

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance, and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. The Huron | GG+A Global Philanthropy business is one of the world’s pre-eminent philanthropic management consultancies. We have worked across the world, providing philanthropic counsel to the higher education, not-for-profit, healthcare, arts, and cultural sectors.

Today, we help organizations realize the full potential of their missions through the growth of philanthropic support. Our primary mission is to assist our clients in the substantial improvement and acceleration of their fundraising and engagement programs, seeking to align those programs with the institution’s core mission and ensure their sustainability. You’ll help our clients by providing robust and multi-faceted data analyses to inform a strategic and operational improvement strategy.

The firm seeks a detail-oriented Data Analyst to collect and statistically analyze a wide range of data on donor analytics, nonprofit financial performance, and comparative benchmarks. This is a full time, hybrid position in our Chicago office (3 days a week on site).

The Data Analyst will join our analytics team who conducts specialized quantitative analyses as part of our broader consulting engagements that aim to identify pathways for our nonprofit clients to grow. In each client engagement, the Data Analyst will partner with an Analytics Consultant to assess prospect, administrative, financial, growth, and survey data. Using Tableau, R, and Excel, the Senior Data Analyst will identify trends, outliers, and key performance indicators for the broader project team to explore through qualitative approaches. The Data Analyst will be responsible for engaging third-party data vendors, clients, and internal project teams to identify the most important data to collect and the specialized analyses needed to provide insights.

The Data Analyst will work across all philanthropic sectors within Global Philanthropy partnering with multiple teams on annual analytical projects and custom projects.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

 • Bachelor’s degree required in a quantitative field, social science research, public policy, or related field

 • Minimum 2 years’ work experience with at least 1-year direct experience analyzing quantitative data

• Working knowledge of MS Excel (formulas, v-lookups, pivot table, charts etc.) required

 • Experience with Tableau (visualizations, crosstabs, tables, dashboards etc.) or similar visualization software preferred

• Experience with R or similar statistical software preferred

• Experience and demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite

• Desirable attributes: Diligent, meticulous, detail oriented, curious, ability to switch priorities, collaborative and nimble

• Ability to work in the Chicago office (3 days a week)

Key Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

 

Data Analysis

• Extract appropriate internal and external data from client databases and other sources

• Develop reports and presentations using Tableau, R, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Optimize existing Tableau templates and workbooks to transform, analyze, and report the data through relevant tables and charts

• Conduct custom analyses in collaboration with consultants and project teams

• Translate data analysis and visualizations into client-ready reports and presentations

• Provide meticulous ongoing quality assurance of data, analysis, reports, presentations