Media Cause is an award winning, mission-driven marketing and creative agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact. We take a people-first approach to developing powerful creative, scalable growth strategies, and targeted communications that connect with individuals across their entire supporter journey: from awareness and recruitment to fundraising and advocacy, and every touchpoint in-between.

As of 2023, Media Cause consists of 60+ full-time employees along with a network of talented consultants. We have offices in Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, and San Francisco, as well as a few team members who work remotely on a permanent basis. Our agency has grown in size every year since our founding, landing on the Inc. 5000 list for the fastest growing private companies in America three times. We have built a strong business, although impact will always be our North Star. In addition to winning 19 creative and effectiveness awards for our client work in 2022, Media Cause was also honored by Inc. Magazine with a Best In Business Gold Award for our positive impact on our community, our industry, and society as a whole.

Media Cause is looking for a freelance Data Analyst to help accelerate the growth and impact of organizations doing good in the world.

This role will start as a contract role with 10-20 hours per week and has the potential to move to a full time hire. The hourly rate will commensurate with experience. Media Cause is committed to hiring individuals who are traditionally underrepresented in the field of marketing. We strongly encourage all qualified people to apply.

What You’ll Do:

• Establish flawless semi-automated or automated reporting dashboards for clients, showcasing marketing KPIs and progress to goals across a variety of channels
• Design lifecycle-forward data measurement strategies and plans to drive the evaluation of fundraising, paid media, social media, website and/or, email strategies
• Conceptualize and implement scalable data structures to support multiple client reports with minimal redundancy
• Support client teams with timely campaign reporting during busy times of year, such as the EOY fundraising season
• Ensure that all data projects you work on are fully QA’d and have detailed and accessible documentation, so that any staff member can pick up where you left off
• Provide guidance on data collection, analysis, and management internally to empower all Media Cause employees to bring data-driven values into our client work

Most time in your position will be spent directly working with clients and client teams on data measurement strategies, dashboard implementation and ad-hoc data analyses. You’ll have the opportunity to apply your analytical skills to a variety of marketing channels, such as paid media, email marketing, SEO, social media, and website optimization.

Who You Are:

The ideal candidate has 2-3 years of experience in marketing analytics across non-profit and/or digital marketing industries. Bonus points for prior agency experience.

We’re looking for people with a passion for driving meaningful results for clients, a hunger to continue learning in the ever changing digital world, the ability to use critical thinking to problem solve and overcome any challenge, a passion for helping teammates succeed, and a strong desire to change the world.

Skills & Experience Required

• 2-3 years of experience producing error-free reports and providing insights on paid media campaigns, email campaigns, social media campaigns and website optimization
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
• Experience building dashboards from scratch in Google Data Studio, Tableau, PowerBI or another data visualization software
• Experience with scripting languages such as R or Python
• Experience in analyzing and drawing insights from Google Analytics, GA4 or another analytics platform
• Experience working in and extracting data sets from a variety of CRMs, advertising platforms, email platforms and social media platforms
• Excellent analytical and logical reasoning skills with a sharp attention to detail for catching errors or abnormalities in datasets
• Ability to discuss data analysis insights and processes to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working across multiple teams at once in a fast paced environment
• Ability to work in both independent and collaborative environments
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Passionate about the role that data plays in driving success and growing impact for nonprofit missions

While not required, we also invite candidates with the following skills to apply (or interest in learning):

• Experience analyzing A/B or multivariate optimization experiments
• Experience working with ETL tools or data connectors (such as Airbyte or Supermetrics)

Company Perks & Culture

• Family first work environment with flexible work from home options to accommodate personal obligations
• Robust health, dental, and vision benefit plans for you and yours
• 401k & retirement planning
• Agency-wide profit sharing
• Unlimited personal time off (with an enforced 3 week minimum every year)
• Quarterly mental health Fridays to reset and recharge
• Flexible remote work: We’re open to candidates located anywhere in the US and support work getting done wherever it works best for the employee
• $200/month health & wellness stipend to strengthen your body and/or mind
• $1,000/year individual professional development stipend to cover any education/training that you want to pursue to grow in your role (or as a human!)
• Agency commitment to building and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive agency (and we hold ourselves accountable)
• Transparent & equitable career growth opportunities: Clear path for advancement and opportunity for anyone to raise their hand for promotion every 6 months
• The ability to work with genuinely fantastic humans who care deeply about the work we do and each other
• Yearly donations made to employees nonprofit of choice to celebrate their Media Cause work anniversaries
• A culture of volunteering and giving back to the communities we work in and to the issues we care about around the world (quarterly office volunteer days will return after COVID)

This is a salaried role commensurate with experience. Media Cause is committed to hiring individuals who are traditionally underrepresented in the field of marketing. We strongly encourage all qualified people to apply.