Senior Data & MERL Specialist

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Human Trafficking Institute

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Healthcare • Legal

Human Trafficking Institute is a nonprofit organization that fights international human trafficking by targeting traffickers through law-enforcement capacity building, prosecution support, embedded experts, and data-driven tools. HTI partners with prosecutors, police, and justice systems to arrest, charge, and convict traffickers, freeing current victims and preventing future exploitation. The organization raises funds, publishes research, and provides training and technical assistance to scale enforcement-based solutions and strengthen criminal justice responses.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain structured databases and data dictionaries, including standard indicator and KPI definitions • Ensure Texas KPIs and performance indicators are supported by verifiable, regularly collected data sources • Collect, clean, and consolidate data from external partners, external sources, and internal program activities • Coordinate data submissions and quality assurance with external partners and internal teams • Build and maintain relationships with county leads and external stakeholders to support reliable data sharing • Manage public information requests, standardize responses, and document sources • Identify opportunities to automate workflows and improve data processes • Conduct data quality reviews and produce analytical summaries for leadership and donors • Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards for sensitive information • Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends and support program decisions • Develop and maintain interactive dashboards and visualizations in Power BI or similar tools • Conduct descriptive, exploratory, and appropriate statistical analyses, including pre/post and cross-county comparisons • Assess Texas operations and data practices against program needs • Align the Texas data program with organizational data and MERL strategy • Manage MERL systems and tools and recommend new systems as needs evolve • Manage consultants and vendors developing systems and tools • Design and maintain monitoring tools for trainings and capacity-building activities • Coordinate learning cycles, after-action reviews, and quarterly reflection sessions • Produce visual and narrative summaries for internal learning, donor reporting, and planning • Translate findings into actionable recommendations and respond to reporting, grant, and partner data requirements • Present data and findings to partners, county stakeholders, funders, and leadership • Contribute Texas data to organization-wide reporting and the Global KPI Sheet • Assist applied research initiatives through data preparation, descriptive analyses, documentation, evaluations, and partner coordination • Identify new data sources, including public court data and academic partners, to strengthen the Texas evidence base

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, computer science, economics, social sciences, or a related field • 5-7 years’ experience in data management or analysis • Demonstrated hands-on experience cleaning, matching, and managing messy data from multiple sources, with clear documentation of methods • Working proficiency in at least one of SQL, R, or Python for repeatable data cleaning and analysis • Experience handling confidential or sensitive data in line with privacy and security requirements • Legally authorized to work in the United States and do not require sponsorship • Ability to work prolonged periods at a desk and on a computer • Ability to lift up to 10 pounds at times • Preferred: Experience integrating data across multiple systems or sources • Preferred: Experience working with criminal justice-sector, county/municipal, or social-impact data • Preferred: Familiarity with monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) • Preferred: Experience with PowerBi, Tableau, or similar data analytics platforms • Preferred: Experience with SalesForce or similar CRM • Preferred: Experience with inferential or multivariate statistical methods, or evaluation design • Preferred: Experience with qualitative methods such as key informant interviews or focus groups

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Flexible spending accounts • 401k with up to 5% match • Generous PTO program • Life and accident coverage • Voluntary income protection benefits • Employee Assistance Program