The Democratic Party

Fundraising Analyst

US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience in analytics, ideally in fundraising or political campaigns
  • Proficient in SQL and building reusable data pipelines
  • Experience with large, messy datasets and data cleaning
  • Familiar with tools like dbt and Airflow for production workflows
  • Comfortable with Google Cloud Platform, especially BigQuery
  • Ability to articulate technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical team members
  • Experience working in fast-paced, dynamic environments

Responsibilities

  • Conduct strategic analysis to identify program strengths and opportunities for improvement
  • Manage and standardize fundraising data from multiple sources for accurate reporting
  • Run and validate fundraising models developed by the Data Science team
  • Design and recommend experiments to enhance fundraising efforts
  • Build and maintain automated reports showing key program performance insights
  • Develop automation products to streamline repetitive fundraising processes
  • Handle ad hoc data requests and ensure data accuracy and quality

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave
  • Comprehensive health and dental insurance with 90% coverage by DNC
  • Supplementary vision plans available for employee purchase
  • Up to a 5% employer match in DNC 401(k) plan
  • Pre-tax flexible spending account options for employees and dependents
Full Job Description

The Fundraising Analyst will report into the Analytics Lead and work with other Analysts on the Data team. In addition, they will work in close partnership with teams across the DNC, including Mobilization (grassroots fundraising), Finance (major donor), and Compliance. They will conduct strategic analysis to maximize fundraising, partner with program leads to improve operations, and serve as a fundraising technology subject matter expert for the organization.

Who you are:

We're focused on equipping our fundraising teams with the data-backed strategy and insights they need to operate intelligently and efficiently, and are looking for a Fundraising Analyst with a diverse range of backgrounds and skill sets to help us tackle numerous projects. Whether you have a for-profit background in Analytics Engineering with an analytical mindset or you've worked in political or non-profit fundraising before, we'd love to talk to you.

Good candidates are extremely detail-oriented while able to move quickly to respond to events or stakeholder needs without sacrificing quality. On a day-to-day basis, our team cares about things like designing tools and reports to enable smarter decision-making, and optimizing messaging and targeting across channels and audiences, to name a few.

Among other things, core responsibilities of this role include:

  • Strategic Analysis: Perform analysis to understand trends in engagement, areas of program strength, and opportunities for improvement; turn this analysis into actionable insights to optimize where we are focused over time.
  • Orchestrate Pipelines: Manage finance data synced from multiple platforms, create data structures that aggregate and standardize fundraising data for analysis and reporting.
  • Maintain Models: Run and validate fundraising models produced by Data Science team

In addition, this role may also include:

  • Lead Experimental Design: Recommend and design experiments to optimize fundraising efforts including, but not limited to, A/B testing on digital campaigns and to direct mail audiences.
  • Reporting: Build and maintain automated reporting to empower our team with key insights into program performance. Work with engineering teams to consult on data products that can be used to streamline reporting code.
  • Automation: Work with Tech Team stakeholders to develop products that streamline repetitive processes, such as targeting, universe development, and list movement between tools; consult on data products that can be used to streamline reporting code and other system automation.
  • Ad Hoc Work: Manage ad hoc data requests from stakeholders, ensuring quick turnaround while maintaining data accuracy and quality.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

  • You write clean, well-organized SQL and know how to structure reusable data pipelines.
  • You've worked with large, complex datasets-especially those that weren't tidy to begin with.
  • You enjoy building things with others, not just for them, and believe the best products come from thoughtful partnerships.
  • You've used tools like dbt or Airflow to build and maintain production workflows. These could include tools like Dagster, Databricks, AWS Glue, or Dataform.
  • You're comfortable with the Google Cloud Platform, especially BigQuery and GCS.
  • You can explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and non-technical collaborators.
  • You've worked in fast-paced environments where priorities shift quickly.
  • You've spent time on a campaign or you've worked with political data before.

Additional useful skills and qualifications:

  • You have experience working with political data like state voter files, election results, or data on voter, volunteer, or donor engagement.
  • You have direct experience with voter databases and outreach software such as VAN/ Votebuilder, Scale to Win, or Reach.
  • You have an understanding of how to (and how not to) use predictive modeling, such as Turnout and Support scores.


Salary:

The salary for the Data Analyst position is $84,000 on an annualized basis, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

This is a full-time, exempt position, that may require work on weekends, and is fully remote. This position is in the bargaining unit represented by SEIU Local-500.

Benefits:

The DNC offers a generous benefit package, including:

  • Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave
  • Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents; 90% paid by the DNC, 10% paid by employee
  • Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase
  • Up to a 5% employer match DNC 401(k) plan
  • Pre-tax flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents


The pay range for this role is:

84,000 - 84,000 USD per year (Remote (United States))

About The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party. Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be the Democratic-Republican Party. Before 1860, the Democratic Party supported expansive presidential power, the interests of slave states, agrarianism, and expansionism, while opposing a national bank and high tariffs. It split in 1860 over slavery and won the presidency only twice between 1860 and 1910. In the late 19th century, it continued to oppose high tariffs and had fierce internal debates on the gold standard. In the early 20th century, it supported progressive reforms and opposed imperialism, with Woodrow Wilson winning the White House in 1912 and 1916. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition after 1932, the Democratic Party has promoted a social liberal platform, including Social Security and unemployment insurance. The New Deal attracted strong support for the party from recent European immigrants but caused a decline of the party's conservative pro-business wing. Following the Great Society era of progressive legislation under Lyndon B. Johnson, including Medicare, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the core bases of the parties shifted, with the Southern states becoming more reliably Republican and the Northeastern states becoming more reliably Democratic. The party's labor union element has become smaller since the 1970s, and as the American electorate shifted in a more conservative direction following Ronald Reagan's presidency, the election of Bill Clinton marked a move for the party toward the Third Way, adopting market-oriented economic policies and culturally liberal policies.
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