Summary

The fundraising team at the Wikimedia Foundation conducts worldwide campaigns across nearly 40 countries and 20 languages, collecting small donations (averaging about $15) as well as larger offline donations to support the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission to empower and engage people around the world with free knowledge.

The Fundraising team is looking for a junior Fundraising Analyst to support the process of making data driven decisions to improve the effectiveness of our fundraising strategies. The Fundraising Analyst will work on supporting fundraising reporting, and ensure the Fundraising Analytics team has capacity to inform and report on fundraising strategies.

The Fundraising Analyst will work with the Senior Fundraising Analyst to generate campaign dashboards, retrieve historical data, and build visualizations to support all teams across the Fundraising organization. They will help develop and systematize the Analytics archive to improve organization and efficiency for the team.

This remote, part-time position offers flexible scheduling with a commitment of 25 hours per week.

In this role, you will:

• Extract and aggregate fundraising campaign data, including content test data, and build out various reports to monitor campaign performance, identify trends, transform data into actionable insights and communicate these insights to stakeholders across the Fundraising teams
• Work closely with the Fundraising Analytics team to monitor campaigns, synthesize data, and highlight trends for various constituencies.
• Support Fundraising Analytics team in standardizing reporting, and documenting best practices
• Maintain and organize Fundraising Analytics team folders and archives
• Assist with documentation of business processes and logic
• Support other fundraising data related data projects, as needed

Skills and Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience in data management and data analysis or Bachelors degree
• Strong eye for detail and a passion for quickly delivering results for rapid action
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Experience with project management that involves working with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience transforming data in Excel, Google products suite, Tableau, PowerBI, Superset, or similar to demonstrate meaningful insight
• Strong ability to track and synthesize data from multiple sources across different contexts

Qualities that are important to us:

• Humility, tact, compassion, high levels of integrity, and good listening skills.
• Flexible and open to change and new information
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment
• Ability to work effectively in multiple cultural contexts

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Fundraising or marketing experience
• Proven ability to adhere to deadlines and to complete projects independently, even under pressure
• Creativity, high degree of motivation and a self-starting attitude

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. 

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated hourly pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$32 per hour to US$50 per hour with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location. 

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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