Data Analyst

• PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
• You will turn ChildFund Australia’s supporter and program data into trusted information that teams rely on to raise funds, understand performance and make informed decisions. Working in the Data Insights team, you will also deliver recurring reporting and campaign data, while owning key data quality, validation and reconciliation processes.

KEY DUTIES

Reporting and campaign data

Delivery, validation and monitoring of recurring reporting

Prepare campaign data selections and produce forecasts to support next-year planning

Build, maintain and improve Power BI reports and dashboards and action change requests from teams

Validate reporting outputs and investigate discrepancies before information is distributed to stakeholders.

Data quality and reconciliation

Own repeatable data quality rules and reconciliation processes

Investigate exceptions and work with data owners to resolve them

Match and reconcile supporter records across systems and support data cleanup

Identify data anomalies such as invalid or automated sign-ups

Working with teams

Gather requirements directly with stakeholders and turn them into clear, well-scoped data products

Explain data, trends and limitations in plain language so teams can make informed decisions

Write user guides and technical documentation so what you build can be used, supported and handed over

Ways of working

Keep all code, report logic and definitions in source control and documented, so no data product depends on one person's knowledge

Handle supporter and personal information securely and in line with ChildFund's privacy obligations

Manage your work with the team, raising risks and blockers early

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Strong SQL skills, including writing and debugging multi-step transformation queries

Experience building Power BI reports, including data modelling and DAX

Demonstrated accuracy: reconciling figures, validating outputs and tracing discrepancies back to source

Experience gathering requirements from non-technical stakeholders and delivering against them

Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent practical experience

DESIRABLE

Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Spark or another lakehouse platform

Experience working with Salesforce data (objects, relationships, reporting)

Experience using Git or another version control system

Experience with not-for-profit fundraising data

Experience with international development program or MEL data

ChildFund Australia believes in a global community where children are safe and can reach their full potential. We take extensive steps to safeguard children in any work done by our people, i.e., our staff, volunteers and interns, supporters, partners, board members, ambassadors and suppliers. We strive to keep children safe through child safe practices, and rigorously ensure we prevent, oppose, and combat all exploitation and abuse of children and vulnerable people.

As part of this commitment, all people working with us will undergo relevant background checks before joining ChildFund Australia. Staff will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to understand our Child Safeguarding and PSEAH policies & procedures, promote strong safeguarding practices, and conduct themselves consistent with these policies