Director of Data Analytics

Diocese of Lansing; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Job summary

Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist seeks a Director of Data and Analytics for the Office of Evangelization and Mission (OEM). This role leads data strategy, surfaces insights, and builds dashboards to support mission-focused decision making across initiatives.

You will partner with Communications and Apostolic Initiatives to surface evidence-based recommendations, ensure data integrity, and guide the data team in a fast-evolving nonprofit context.

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn about and serve the mission.
• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources into a coherent view.
• Proficiency in SQL and data tools including Virtuous CRM.
• Strong data visualization and dashboard-building skills.
• Able to translate complex data into plain-language insights.

Responsibilities

• Audit data systems across OEM initiatives and build a unified data framework.
• Create dashboards for leadership with real-time performance visibility.
• Own quarterly reporting: trends, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities.
• Translate data findings into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Establish shared data definitions and standards across initiatives.
• Develop the data and analytics team structure as the OEM matures.

Skills

SQL

Data tools

Virtuous CRM

Data visualization

Dashboard building

Data storytelling

Project management

Leadership

Microsoft Office

Discretion & professionalism

Education

Bachelor's degree strongly preferred

Tools

Virtuous CRM

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

About the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist:

The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist was formed in 1997 by four religious Sisters for the salvation of souls, the building up of the Church throughout the world, and the witness of religious life. Through God’s providence, the community has experienced tremendous growth in both numbers and apostolic works. More than 90 Sisters currently serve as Catholic school teachers and administrators in 17 missions across the country and in Rome. Broadening the scope and extending the reach of the apostolate globally, the Sisters are involved in the development of a growing array of professionally developed print and digital resources, with a key focus on virtue education and Catholic social emotional learning.

About the Position:

The Director of Data and Analytics foundational role in the newly-established Office of Evangelization and Mission (OEM). The OEM exists to serves as relational infrastructure across all of the initiatives of the Dominican Sisters. OEM connects the lived religious life of the Dominican Sisters with the world they are called to serve. The various missions and initiatives across the community, the particular call to evangelization in our culture today, along with the layers of relationships the Sisters have developed among friends, stakeholders, and mission partners, have called forth a new structure to support sustainability and organizational strength. Critical to this new structure is a team member tasked with surfacing the data about our mission and where future opportunities may be.

The Director of Data and Analytics reports to the Executive Director of the OEM and works collaboratively with the Director of Communications and the Director of Apostolic Initiatives by providing evidence-based recommendations. The Director of Data and Analytics also leads and organizes the data team. The Director of Data and Analytics serves with an adaptive, flexible, self-starter mindset, and co-creates the data and analytics strategy and roadmap with with evidence-based recommendations.

Key Role Functions and Responsibilities - Includes but is not limited to:

• Data Infrastructure and Integration: Conduct an audit of existing data systems across OEM initiatives and identify gaps, redundancies, and disconnects; establish a unified data framework that connects mission impact, donor data, digital analytics, event data, social media, and email performance into a coherent view; build and maintain dashboards that give leadership real-time visibility into organizational performance.
• Reporting and Analytics: Own the quarterly reporting cycle by producing structured reports that surface trends, strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities across OEM initiatives; work with all director levels to set signs of growth and quarterly targets to track against (targets vs. actuals); track and report on priority metrics including mission impact, donor retention and giving trends, social reach and engagement, email open and click rates, event attendance, and overall evangelization effort; translate raw data into plain language insights that non-technical leadership can respond to; maintain historical data integrity so that trend analysis is reliable over time.
• Data Storytelling and Recommendations: Present quarterly findings to OEM Executive Director with clear, evidence-based recommendations; Identify patterns that indicate strategic opportunity or risk, and surface them proactively rather than reactively.
• Cross-Initiative Collaboration: Establish shared definitions and standards for how data is collected and categorized across initiatives to ensure consistency.
• Team Development (Emerging): As OEM matures, work with Executive Director to define the structure of the data and analytics team.

Required qualifications, skills, knowledge:

• Willingness to learn about and serve the mission of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multiple data sources and synthesize them into a coherent interpretable view.
• Proficiency in SQL and various data tools, including the current CRM used, Virtuous.
• Strong data visualization and dashboard-building skills.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, plain language insights for non-technical audiences.
• Strong project management, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Discretion and professionalism in working collaboratively with religious Sisters, donors, and staff.
• Self-starter, adaptive and flexible mindset.
• Can work with minimal direction if needed.
• Experience with Microsoft products (e.g. Outlook, Excel, Teams, SharePoint).

Preferred qualifications, skills, knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred
• 2+ years of relevant experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field.

As a non-profit, we offer a competitive salary and great benefits. Benefits include but are not limited to: