Development Insights and Data Manager
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Development Insights & Data Manager coordinating fundraising and impact measurement at Imagine Worldwide. Analyzing data, managing metrics, and supporting communications for effective donor engagement.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the development team’s primary liaison with research, country and programs teams to secure impact indicators, KPIs, and performance data.
- Maintain an updated repository of organizational metrics in key impact areas including learning gains, climate benefits, and livelihoods for proposals, reports, and donor materials and external communications.
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and timeliness across country programs and reporting cycles.
- Collaborate with finance team to retrieve high-level financial data (e.g., cost-per-student, efficiency metrics, budget trends).
- Support development colleagues in interpreting and presenting financial data clearly for donor audiences.
- Collect and synthesize qualitative inputs from country offices, including best practices, lessons learned, and solution development for common challenges for both internal and external use.
- Maintain systems for sharing and accessing qualitative insights across the development team.
- Work with the communications and development teams to produce coherent narrative summaries and programmatic context for proposals, donor reports, and briefings.
- Translate technical data and research findings into clear and accessible formats for external audiences.
- Create simple charts, tables, and data visualization.
- Draft supporting narrative content when needed in collaboration with grant writers.
- Maintain organized data dashboards and ensure information is easily retrievable for development staff.
- Track data needs for active proposals, reports and narrative priorities.
- Support cross-team planning related to evidence, reporting, and knowledge management.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in international development, economics, statistics, public policy, education, or another relevant field; or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in data management, MEAL support, research, knowledge management, or similar roles.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret, clean, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data.
- Strong writing and communication skills for nontechnical audiences.
- Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and basic data analysis tools.
- Experience coordinating across diverse teams and time zones.
- Familiarity with CRM or knowledge management systems (e.g., Salesforce, Airtable, SharePoint) preferred.
Benefits:
- Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.



















