Data Analytics Associate

About Tipping Point 

Tipping Point finds, funds, and strengthens the most promising poverty-fighting solutions so one day everyone in the Bay Area can prosper. Since 2005, Tipping Point has invested over $510 million in the community to support organizations, advance policies, and develop new ideas to increase economic opportunity. Last year, our investments funded life-changing services in housing, early childhood, education, and employment for more than 100,000 of our neighbors across the Bay Area. Visit www.tippingpoint.org to learn more.

Values

Tipping Point’s core values are at the heart of everything we do and we look for individuals who share our commitments:

• We cultivate community because we know we are more powerful together.
• We practice gratitude.
• We hold ourselves accountable to achieving impact for and with the communities we serve.
• We relentlessly pursue equity because one’s background and identities should not predetermine one’s opportunities.

Position Overview

The Data Analytics Associate plays a key role in strengthening Tipping Point’s ability to measure and communicate impact effectively. As a member of the Impact Team, this role is responsible for collecting, managing, analyzing, and reporting on program and investment data to help track progress toward organizational goals and measure outcomes across Tipping Point’s portfolio. The Data Analytics Associate is detail-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable working with multiple sources of data to support learning, evaluation, and performance measurement efforts. 

Working closely with Learning + Evaluation Managers and program staff, the Data Analytics Associate ensures the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of data systems and reporting processes. This role focuses on execution and operational support, including maintaining datasets, producing recurring reports and dashboards, conducting routine quantitative analysis, and supporting data-informed decision making across the organization.

The Data Analytics Associate reports to the Senior Director of Impact.

Responsibilities

Data systems management

• Oversee and maintain internal Tipping Point datasets that are used to monitor grantee performance and measure the impact of Tipping Point’s programmatic and policy investments. 
• In partnership with the Learning + Evaluation Managers, develop efficient workflows to incorporate new data into existing datasets, and generate data reporting templates.
• Clean and incorporate legacy data into Tipping Point’s data repositories.

Data analysis

• Analyze data using a variety of tools, such as statistical software like Stata and R, programming languages like Python, artificial intelligence, and tools like spreadsheet software and Tableau as needed.
• Develop and implement a process for maintaining data quality, conducting spot checks, and ensuring that data analysis can be conducted in a replicable manner.
• Using Tipping Point’s impact framework and internal targets, collect, process, and analyze data to understand the impact of Tipping Point’s programmatic investments. 
• Working closely with the Senior Director of Impact, serve as the lead on executing all data tasks related to Tipping Point’s programmatic grantmaking.
• Respond to ad hoc internal data inquiries when needed, ensuring that data analysis is conducted with a high degree of rigor and replicability.

Data strategy

• Working closely with the Senior Director of Impact and other members of the Impact team, conceptualize and execute data analysis projects that can inform Tipping Point’s impact and grantmaking strategy.
• Stay up to date on data analysis tools and methods, incorporating new tools and AI-enabled workflows.

All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

In addition to our core values, Tipping Point staff exhibit four core competencies: flexibility, exceptional communication skills, ability to work well on a team, and the ability to continuously problem solve in the face of challenges.

Additionally, the Data Analytics Associate must have:

• Relevant professional experience, including working in environments that involved thinking strategically and tactically about data architecture, management, and analysis.
• Advanced quantitative skills and the ability to analyze and synthesize data; prior experience with statistical, graphical, and coding tools strongly preferred. 
• Demonstrated initiative and the ability to self-direct work and develop project plans when given a desired output. 
• History of delivering high-quality work on ambitious, but achievable deadlines. 
• Entrepreneurial spirit that embraces innovation, learning new techniques, and adaptability.
• Strong dedication to rigor and attention to detail.
• Experience tackling social sector issues using data.
• Commitment to using data science and impact-centered grantmaking in service of Tipping Point’s mission of combating poverty in the Bay Area.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with recent artificial intelligence-enabled coding developments.
• Knowledge of common statistical and causal inference techniques. 

*“Nice to have” really means just that; it’s entirely possible that you don’t have any of these and are still a great fit. It’s not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas — we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

Salary + Classification

Tipping Point is committed to paying competitive wages. In an effort to increase equity, because we know that salary negotiations tend to have an unfair bias, we do not participate in a salary negotiation process for any candidate. We will make our best offer, and it will be the same regardless of the candidate. The annual starting salary for the Data Analytics Associate role is $93,600. This is a non-exempt position as defined by state and federal law. Non-exempt employees paid on an hourly basis and are eligible for overtime pay.

Hybrid Work Environment

At Tipping Point, we believe that in-person connection is essential to fostering strong collaboration, creativity, and community. To support this, staff are expected to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday. Some roles may require community meetings, which can be scheduled during these in-person days. On Mondays and Fridays, staff may choose to work remotely or from the office, depending on their preference. Our office remains open five days a week to encourage face-to-face collaboration and to provide a welcoming space for those who thrive working onsite. We also extend the use of our office to our grantee partners as a shared space for meetings and connection. Tipping Point will periodically assess this hybrid work model and may adjust it as needed to best serve our mission and team.

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We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Tipping Point will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Tipping Point accepts applications on a rolling basis; if the position is still posted on our website, we are still accepting and giving equal consideration to applications.