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.