Senior Data Analyst - DickersonBakker

Job Title: Senior Data Analyst
Reports To: SVP of Operations

Role Overview

DickersonBakker is a leading fundraising solutions provider for non-profit organizations. The Senior Data Analyst plays a critical role in optimizing direct mail and digital fundraising programs for nonprofit clients. This position is responsible for analyzing donor and campaign data, developing actionable insights, and supporting strategic decision-making across multi-channel fundraising initiatives. The ideal candidate has deep experience in direct response fundraising analytics and advanced proficiency in Microsoft-based data tools, including SQL and Power BI.

This role also requires an understanding of how AI-enabled tools and techniques can be applied to data analysis, forecasting, and reporting to improve efficiency, insight generation, and decision support.

Key Responsibilities

Direct Mail & Digital Fundraising Analytics

• Analyze performance of direct mail, email, and digital fundraising campaigns, including acquisition, renewal, reactivation, and upgrade efforts.
• Evaluate donor behavior across channels, identifying patterns in response, giving frequency, average gift, and lifetime value.
• Support list strategy, segmentation, circulation planning, and channel integration through data-driven insights.
• Assess digital-to-mail and mail-to-digital interactions to inform coordinated fundraising strategies.

Data Analysis & Insight Development

• Use SQL to query, extract, and manipulate large donor and campaign datasets from client databases and internal systems.
• Leverage AI-assisted analytical techniques (e.g., automated pattern detection, forecasting support, anomaly detection, and natural language summarization) to enhance analytical efficiency and insight quality.
• Perform segmentation, cohort analysis, and trend analysis to support targeting, personalization, and testing strategies.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for strategists, account teams, and clients.

Reporting & Power BI Development

• Design, build, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports that track key fundraising KPIs, including response rate, cost per dollar raised, ROI, and donor lifetime value.
• Ensure dashboards are intuitive, accurate, and tailored to both internal stakeholders and nonprofit clients.
• Standardize reporting frameworks and definitions across campaigns and clients where appropriate.
• Incorporate AI-enabled features and workflows within Power BI and related Microsoft tools to improve automated insights, narrative reporting, and performance monitoring.

Data Quality & Governance

• Partner with internal teams and clients to ensure donor data cleanliness, consistency, and proper structure.
• Identify data quality issues and proactively recommend solutions to improve reporting accuracy and analytical reliability.
• Document data sources, assumptions, and methodologies to support transparency and repeatability.

Strategic Partnership & Client Support

• Collaborate with strategy, account management, creative, and production teams to inform campaign planning and optimization.
• Participate in client meetings as a data subject-matter expert, presenting insights and explaining analytical approaches.
• Support test design, evaluation, and post-campaign analysis for direct mail and digital initiatives.

Leadership & Process Improvement

• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to the development of agency-wide analytics best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve analytical workflows through better use of Microsoft tools and automation.
• Identify and recommend responsible uses of AI to streamline reporting, automate repetitive analytical tasks, and improve scalability while maintaining data accuracy and governance standards.
• Evaluate and recommend enhancements to data models, dashboards, and reporting processes.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Marketing, Economics, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience in data analysis, with significant exposure to direct mail and digital fundraising or direct response marketing.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft SQL (writing complex queries, joins, and aggregations).
• Strong experience developing dashboards and reports in Power BI.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, advanced formulas, and data modeling.
• Proven ability to translate analytical results into practical, fundraising-focused recommendations.

Preferred

• Experience working with nonprofit donor databases, CRMs, or fundraising platforms.
• Familiarity with list management, circulation planning, and campaign testing in a direct mail environment.
• Experience with statistical modeling, forecasting, or scripting (e.g., Python or R).
• Prior agency or multi-client experience supporting nonprofit organizations.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled analytics, reporting, or data preparation tools within the Microsoft ecosystem or comparable platforms.

Core Competencies

• Direct response and fundraising acumen
• Strong SQL and Power BI expertise
• Analytical rigor with practical application
• Clear communication with non-technical audiences
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Attention to detail and data integrity

Work Environment & Expectations

• Agency environment supporting multiple nonprofit clients and concurrent campaigns.
• Requires balanced analytical depth with speed, accuracy, and business priorities.

• Remote position.