Development Systems Analyst

**Location**: Remote/Anywhere in Canada
**Position details**: Full-Time, 12-month contract
**Salary**: $63,950-$71,909

Taking care of our environment has never been more important than it is today. The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is looking for an enthusiastic, curious, detail-oriented, and proactive thinker to be our Development Systems Analyst, joining a team committed to protecting our most important natural areas and the plants and animals they sustain. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the country to transform NCC’s vast amount of marketing and development data into strategic information to support decision making

NCC is the nation’s leading not-for-profit, private land conservation organization, working to protect our most important natural areas and the species they sustain. Since 1962 NCC and its supporters have protected 14 million hectares (more than 35 million acres) of ecologically significant land across Canada. NCC takes a collaborative, science-based approach to achieve conservation success for the sake of nature and Canadians. With a national office in Toronto and seven regional offices across the country, NCC delivers results you can walk on.

**Position Summary**:
**Reporting to the Manager, Development Systems, the Development Systems Analyst, will be a key contributor NCC’s marketing and development efforts, and the organization’s ability to reach its fundraising and supporter goals.**:
**The Data Analyst will be a key contributor in creating Business Intelligence assets to enable data-driven decision making for stakeholders across the organization. In this role, you will translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements and engage in the end-to-end analytics life cycle involving data collection, data exploration, data cleaning, data synthesis and data presentation.**:
**You will support the development and promotion of BI solutions, data policies, standards, and procedures, and build awareness of methodologies, processes and tools as we work towards becoming an insight-driven organization.**:
**This role requires an enthusiastic, curious, detail-oriented, and proactive thinker and communicator, pushing NCC to strengthen and streamline our reporting and analytics, weaving together best practices and the newest ideas in the field.**:
**Responsibilities**:
**Data analysis and data visualization (50%)**:

- Responsible for building and continuously developing a reporting system (reports, dashboards and KPIs) for the fundraising department, to track results and allow team members to access and visualize the data.
- Generates and analyzes quantitative and qualitative, internal and external data.
- Be able to identify, troubleshoot deviations or data outliers in results and provide follow-up explanations and advice.
- Illustrate data graphically and translate complex findings into easily understandable reports, and presentations.
- Use of data warehouse, SQL reporting services (SSRS), and other BI tools and solutions to deliver enhanced reports.
- Develop insights and visualizations to share with internal and external partners based on current trends in philanthropy.
- Analyse and interpret data and information from a variety of sources in a way that facilitates the proposal of solutions and decision-making.

**Collaboration, strategy and planning (25%)**:

- Collaborate with senior M&D leadership to develop strategic direction and plans
- Work closely with lines of business to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics and KPIs, and delivering actionable insights to decision makers.
- Provide necessary support to the team in the development and maintenance of the enterprise data warehouse, data mart and related reporting systems; conduct ETL, data cleansing and standardization activities as needed.
- Train and support fundraising staff in end user report and output for report running and viewing, predicative modelling, dashboards, monitoring, etc.
- Resolve and/or escalate data issues with relevant partners and vendors.

**System development (25%)**:

- Develop and maintain a reporting system to track results and make data available to the M&D Team.
- Evaluate internal systems and processes for efficiencies and inaccuracies; assist in the development and maintenance of protocols for handling, processing, cleaning and optimizing data; ensure business operations are compliant with internal data policies.
- Maintain controls related to the integrity of enterprise data; conduct ongoing data quality reviews, ensure new initiatives meet the standards required to support the business unit objectives.
- Easily able to envision data solutions and reporting structure to answer complex questions as they pertain to fundraising analysis.
- Able to identify efficiencies and updated reporting processes to achieve more efficient outcomes.

**Position Requirements**:

- Undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Computer