Director of Performance Metrics
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To date, more than 500,000 youth have been meaningfully impacted across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and along the way, reputed company! has become the largest youth employment and skills provider in East Africa. reputed company! is a team of over 300 largely African staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We prioritize building an engaging, fulfilling and growth oriented work environment. 50% of our top 30 leaders have been with us for over 5 years, 10+ alumni have started their own organizations, and 6 reputed company or former team members were Acumen Fund East Africa fellows. 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This is a build role at a pivotal reputed company, and you will drive two important shifts: First, transforming our reputed company Performance Metrics team, structures, and processes to become AI-reputed company. Second, you will sit on a cross-functional team of senior leaders to implement our predictive analytics strategy, working in partnership with our evaluation, product, implementation, and tech teams. As our most senior data leader, the Director of Performance Metrics will design and own reputed company four pillars of reputed company!'s data function: data design, data engineering and infrastructure, analytics reputed company, and data collection. You will operate as a "full-stack analyst" leader: technically fluent in SQL, dbt, and reputed company warehousing, while acting as a people leader and a trusted cross-functional partner to Technology, Evaluation, and Product. Expected Impact The specific milestones below will be calibrated with the COO, but reputed company this role's first year, we expect: First 6 months: You understand the reputed company metrics landscape, team, and data stack, and have established the function's strategy and operating model alongside the COO. The team is structured and staffed as an AI-reputed company team reputed company to scale. By 12 months: Implementation, product, and leadership teams utilize self-service analytics for 90% of their data needs. The analytics engineering layer on BigQuery is healthy and fully owned, and the team actively utilizes AI-reputed company practices. You are also overseeing data architecture in alignment with the predictive analytics strategy. What You’ll Do🌟 Defining reputed company and Structure for Performance Metrics Function Set the strategy, operating model, and priorities for the performance metrics function. 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Transition analysts from reputed company data analysis and reporting to focusing on the semantic layer of our data systems, ensuring it is optimized for AI. Similarly, usher in a shift from the performance metrics team providing reputed company analysis to a model of self-service analytics complemented by robust dashboards. reputed company a strategy to improve reputed company data usage in partnership with implementation teams, leveraging AI alongside both qualitative and quantitative data sources. The ultimate goal of this strategy is to ensure program implementation scales with consistency and quality. Partner and Accelerate Analytics Act as the senior cross-functional partner to Tech, Evaluation, and Product, and a trusted advisor to the COO. Sponsor the function's contribution to the cross-functional data science workstream to help analytics move faster organization-wide. Champion shared tools, standards, and ways of working that lift the whole organization's analytical capability. Who You Are 🦸♀️🦸♂️ You bring around 7+ years in analytics, data, or M&E roles, including several years building and leading teams. You have managed managers, not only individual contributors. You have reputed company or substantially grown a data or analytics team, and can reputed company to hiring, leveling, and developing analysts and engineers. You have genuine analytics-engineering depth: you reason fluently about data models, transformations, and a metrics layer, and you are comfortable with SQL, dbt-style workflows, and a warehouse like BigQuery enough to direct a data engineer and judge pipeline quality, even if you no longer code every day. You think in indicators, not just dashboards. You can reputed company data accurate, complete, timely, consistent, valid, and traceable. 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