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National Audubon Society · 10 hours ago

Senior Director, Data Strategy and Program Management

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$165K/yr - $186K/yr

10+ years exp

The National Audubon Society is a leading nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting birds and their habitats. The Senior Director, Data Strategy and Program Management will lead the development and implementation of enterprise data strategies and processes to enhance data-driven practices across the organization, ensuring alignment with Audubon's conservation mission.

EducationNon ProfitPublishingWildlife Conservation

Responsibilities

Define and lead Audubon’s data strategy and program management approach, in alignment with Audubon’s Strategic Plan and organizational priorities. Develop and maintain data strategy and maturity roadmaps, capacity planning tools and standard operating procedures, ensuring alignment with organizational needs and priorities and technology best practices

Act as the product owner of key strategic data products, working in collaboration with colleagues from across the Audubon data teams to ensure selection of appropriate technological approaches and tools and overseeing the product lifecycle in order to deliver high quality and efficient solutions to user-driven requirements and strategic priorities. Lead end-to-end technical program and product lifecycles on complex multi-year, multi-stakeholder initiatives

Advance organizational effectiveness through designing and implementing processes to enable strong and proactive management of data team resources, including work planning, project management and product management, balancing development and support requirements across Audubon’s data ecosystem and user communities including programmatic and business teams

Lead Audubon’s data governance efforts, ensuring that Audubon's data practices adhere to security, privacy, and compliance standards, including data governance policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices; Implement and maintain safeguards to protect sensitive information, mitigate risks, and support a culture of data security awareness across the organization

Support and collaborate with business data analysts and users across stakeholder teams toward broader adoption and continuous improvement of data tools and products to advance team level and organizational data maturity

Supervise and support data strategy team staff, providing mentorship, performance management, and professional development opportunities

Proactively manage and facilitate strong, collaborative partnerships among technical teams and non-technical stakeholders across the Audubon network, as well as external partners, vendors and professional networks in the conservation and social impact space

Manage contractors and vendors including software and professional services providers; participate in budget planning and tracking; collaborate with administrative staff and IT department to administer data analysis, analytics engineering, business intelligence and reporting tools and applications

Prepare and deliver written and oral reports, visualizations, and presentations to executives, technical and non-technical staff, and external audiences

Represent Audubon in professional forums, conferences, and external engagements to elevate the organization’s profile and thought leadership

Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and inclusion within the data team and across the organization

Maintain and foster culture of safety

Other job-related duties as assigned

Qualification

Data strategyData governanceProject managementTechnical leadershipData analyticsData product managementCloud technologiesSQLPythonVendor managementCuriosityCoachingLeading changeStrategic leadershipCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsDecision making

Required

Master's degree in Data Analytics/Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar discipline

10+ years of directly relevant work experience and 3+ years of leadership experience developing and managing data programs and strategies

Proven success as a data and technology leader

Strong detail-oriented execution skills, including direct experience as an individual contributor and experience leading teams to move projects from conception to completion

Demonstrated ability to manage teams of technical practitioners in a workplace environment is required

Demonstrated experience applying technical coordination and project management best practices using tools such as Asana and Jira required

Demonstrated experience working directly with data and product engineering teams and possessing a strong grasp of technical concepts such as system architecture, cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), ETL processes including use of data integrations and data services, and DevOps best practices

Demonstrated experience preparing effective written materials, presentations, and other documentation and communication materials for internal and external audiences required

Curiosity to stay on the cusp of software and product trends in non-profits and the greater tech industry

Commitment to Audubon's organizational values of care, collaboration, change, integrity, impact, and innovation

Preferred

Experience transforming how data delivers business value and impact value in large, federated non-profit, government, or other environmental or social impact organization strongly preferred

Experience in designing and deploying strategic data products or systems including knowledge management systems, impact measurement and management systems, decision support, or similar applications in conservation or other environmental or social issue spaces strongly preferred

PMP or other relevant certification strongly preferred

Experience utilizing modern data infrastructure tools such as cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc), data integration and orchestration tools (Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, etc), business intelligence tools (PowerBI, Sigma, etc), CRM systems (Salesforce, Everyaction, etc), and other enterprise data tools (such as Airtable) strongly preferred

Coding ability in SQL, Python, R, and/or other programming languages for data analytics, data science and/or data engineering preferred

Experience with geographic information systems (GIS), spatial data applications and data visualization preferred

Experience in impact design, impact measurement, and evaluation methodologies and best practices in conservation or other related environmental or social impact sector preferred

Experience with marketing and engagement technologies and approaches, including omnichannel marketing platforms, social media analytics tools, web analytics solutions, customer data platforms, voter files and other person level data acquisition and targeting tools, policy and advocacy tracking tools, or similar preferred

Experience fostering inclusive and collaborative work environments is valued

Company

National Audubon Society

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The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.

Founded in 1905

New York, New York, USA

501-1000 employees