Data and Reporting Specialist - 2024254 - World Relief
Chicago, IL 60601
About the Job
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world's greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.
In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes', to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
World Relief Chicagoland seeks a skilled data professional to compile, analyze, and support the reporting of program data to federal and state grantors. The role will be responsible for ensuring complete and accurate data is reported in grantors' systems, while maintaining data integrity within World Relief Chicagoland's client relationship management (CRM) systems. This position will also generate datasets and aggregate data to produce reports as needed by program management and office leadership, reinforce CRM updates to program staff, and support CRM training of new and current staff. This role is based in the Chicago metropolitan area and is expected to be in an office at least 3 days per week.
Role & Responsibilities
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ensure consistent practices are in place for the collection of program data across Chicagoland's three office locations (Chicago, Carol Stream, Aurora).
- Work with grant managers to research data anomalies, troubleshoot data collection methods, and provide input on system improvements.
- Ensure accuracy of data records and collaborate with program directors to troubleshoot data discrepancies and missing or incomplete data.
- Assist in training staff on best practices for data entry and using a CRM system.
- Communicate with program managers to ensure data is entered in a timely manner and in compliance with internally established deadlines.
- Pull datasets from CRMs, analyze and organize data, and assist in the uploading and/or entry of data into grantor's systems.
- Run monthly, quarterly and yearly reports from both the family services and legal services CRMs to be submitted to grantors.
- Review and track monthly outputs and outcomes against annual goals to ensure grant compliance across programs.
- Run clean-up reports to make sure all required data fields are filled in correctly.
- Assist in pulling data for grant proposals, donor meetings, and community presentations.
- Participate in meetings and strategy sessions to improve data collection practices, problem solve issues, and collaborate with team members.
- Learn and maintain knowledge of participants' grant and program eligibility
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Detail-oriented: Able to review data for accuracy, and correctly transfer this to appropriate data management systems
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, able to meet deadlines
- Self-motivated: Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team-based environment
- Strong communicator with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience training and communicating with adult learners from diverse cultural backgrounds preferred
Requirements
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years of data collection, data entry, and/or database management experience required, or demonstrated equivalent experience and expertise.
- Strong computer skills and aptitude for using data software and tech platforms (ie: Microsoft Excel, databases) is required
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and take initiative independently
- Strong data analysis skills and math skills
- Personal integrity and experience maintaining confidential information
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package (25 hours + per week):
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Offer 16 company Paid Holidays + 4 additional Personal days per year!
- Paid Sick and Vacation Time
- Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks for qualified employees)
- FSAs: Medical & Dependent Care, & Commuter Funding
- Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse, and children)
- Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident insurance policies
- Legal Shield Insurance
World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:
- Group Term Life (employee, spouse, and children)
- Long Term & Short-term Disability
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Long Distance Travel Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
World Relief - Retirement:
- 401K & Roth
- WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%
- Eligibility: Full Time (40 hours per week) is eligible after 3 months of employment. Part time is eligible after 1000 hours in a year.
World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible):
- Verizon
- Pet Insurance through Nationwide
- Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual
- Working Advantage Discount Program
- Active & Fit Gym Membership
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
·While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
·The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.
·Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.
·The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
·General office setting. World Relief also offers hybrid and remote schedules for limited positions.
·Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in virtual meetings may be required.
·Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.
·Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
·Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.
·All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Legal Background in the United States
World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. World Relief strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees on the basis of person's race, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, which does not conflict with the protections afforded World Relief as a faith-based employer.
In addition, physical or mental limitations will not be a factor in the application of World Relief's employment policies or employee practices, except for those situations in which occupational requirement make consideration of such factors necessary.
Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief's Statement of Faith.
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Source : World Relief