Profectus is happy to announce we are working with a very exciting Senior Data Manager / Global Data Manager role with a Non-For-Profit organization involved within the sustainable development sector. Our client is looking for a hardworking and passionate data professional to use their skills in helping create a more sustainable environment for us all. If this sounds like you, apply right away!

We are looking for professionals based in one of the regional offices in: Oxford, UK; Amsterdam, NL; Accra, Ghana; Brasilia, Brazil; Cali, Colombia; Kuala Lumpur, Malysia.

Tech Stack

• Heroku/Azure

• Power BI,

• ArcGIS

• Smartsheet

• SQL

• Python (Beneficial but not mandatory)

Responsibilities

• Data and Analytics vision and strategy

• Strategic role to enable project staff to deliver efficiently and effectively

• Alignment of all data companywide across internal and external, to ensure the right investment in new technologies or skills

• Manage the demands for new data services, including third party platforms and in-house development work with regions, project teams & programmes to understand data requirements

• Agree standardised data structures that fulfil client and programme team needs

Client consultancy

• Liaise with data leads in each region to agree project outputs with teams and clients around data collection, security, analyses and visualisation
• Translate an understanding of current and future clients needs for data management and visualisation into requirements and implementation
• Engage with client leads to ensure efficient delivery of data outputs and look for opportunities to create synergies with client data systems (and future plans around data)

Team development and capacity building

• Oversee the data and visualisation global community of practice, a knowledge sharing group for anyone working with data that comes together monthly
• Line manage the database administrator
• Identify and support training requirements, including upskilling new staff to a base level in Excel and Power BI
• Support collaboration across regions, clients and programme teams

Job Requirements

• Experience of data within responsible sourcing and production environment, including risk assessments, traceability data and sustainability
• Hands-on understanding and ability to work with data, alongside the ability to take a strategic lead to future-proof our data strategy and services, work with global leadership team to gauge needs across the organisation and provide consultancy input to project or programme
• Successful track record of managing multiple data sets, establishing best practice (for people, platforms and processes) in the collection, cleaning, security, management and analysis of
• Ability to lead change, including new technology platforms or applications, working with our IT and Technical Operations teams, as well as collaboration with non-technical data users
• Fluency in English is important to work across all of our operating regions, while Indonesian Bahasa, Portuguese or Spanish, would be beneficial

Skills and Experience

• Strategic understanding of building a data practice in a global (distributed)
• Data governance, including client confidentiality and security, to ensure and promote a strong data culture.
• Data analysis and modelling, to be able to turn client briefs into documented data requirements to provide the insights and intelligence needed, using common visualization and analyses
• Database management experience, ideally SQL (Heroku) and Azure, to manage a database migration and develop requirements for database
• Strong Smartsheet, Excel, and Power BI skills. Some knowledge of programming language is advantageous (preferably Python).
• Decentralized team coordination and networking

 If interested do please apply with your latest C.V