Strategic Director, Advancement Analytics & Insights

The California State University; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

San José State University seeks a Director of Advancement Analytics and Insights to design, deploy, and lead analytics functions across University Advancement. You will architect data-driven fundraising frameworks, deliver dashboards, and forecast performance to guide leadership and teams.

Leading cross-department analytics, you will champion data literacy, ensure ethical data use, and translate complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field and 5 years in data analytics.
• Experience leading large-scale analytics initiatives or acting as a primary system analyst/strategist.
• Strong communication and strategic insight for leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multi-year roadmap for advancement analytics aligning data initiatives with philanthropic and engagement pipelines, university campaigns, and divisional priorities and performance goals
• Serve as the division’s lead business intelligence analyst informing decision-making and driving strategic initiatives across departments
• Design, implement, and standardize KPIs, dashboards, and accountability frameworks for University Advancement teams and leadership
• Develop predictive algorithms and models to forecast fundraising performance and donor behavior
• Build data-driven revenue projection and multi-year forecasting models to track pipeline gaps and objective achievement
• Integrate external wealth screening and relationship data into automated internal scoring models
• Translate complex multivariate data into narrative insights for non-technical audiences and leadership

Skills

Communication

Data analysis

Data visualization

Forecasting

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, BI, Statistics, CS, Economics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Power BI

Salesforce

Job description

San José State University seeks a Director of Advancement Analytics and Insights to design, deploy, and lead analytics functions across University Advancement. You will architect data-driven fundraising frameworks, deliver dashboards, and forecast performance to guide leadership and teams.

Leading cross-department analytics, you will champion data literacy, ensure ethical data use, and translate complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership and stakeholders.