Data Analyst

About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) & CED Law

Our mission

We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.

Our Organization

The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a “one-stop-shop” approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.

Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, Data Analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. In the previous two years, we have distributed more than $100 million in aid and served more than 40,000 Coloradans. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDP’s model has been cited as a best practice by the White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.

Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDP’s work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

More about the Data Analyst Role:

The Data Analyst is a member of CEDP’s Strategy Team and plays an essential role in ensuring that our services, operations, and outcomes align with CEDP’s mission and strategy. This role will focus on reviewing, understanding, and processing data from multiple data sources to develop reports, data requests, and data transformations. An ideal candidate will have strong data analysis and problem-solving skills for delivering high quality solutions on time.

In this role you will:

• Improve visibility and integration of client service data across all CEDP programs, from intake to program exit
• Act as primary resource for all data sources, the relationships among them, and correct usage of each
• Develop analyses to support policy and advocacy goals, e.g.:
  • Analyze internal, local, and nationwide data on the impact of rental assistance
  • Develop analysis to support advocacy for homelessness prevention and anti-poverty initiatives (e.g., presentations for state legislators, press releases)
• Conduct data analysis to support funding proposals and ongoing reports to funders
• Analyze data sources to design and maintain data infrastructure that is pertinent and correct for the functions and requests it must serve, and perform vetting and QA on the data to ensure its accuracy
• Analyze current operations and identify areas for improvement
• Create data sources, tables, spreadsheets, programs, processes, and data flows to support custom reporting and data extract requests
• Assist teams with data reporting (set-up, tracking) on key program metrics and outcomes
• Analyze and implement methodologies for matching data from multiple sources
• Develop and maintain data dashboards
• Work closely with internal users and project leads to understand reporting challenges and offer solutions
• Communicate effectively with non-technical staff, effectively gathering their functional issues and requirements
• Participate and, in some cases, lead data related meetings with internal teams.
• Other duties as assigned

Position Requirements:

• 2-3 years professional experience in data analysis & modeling, data management, and/or decision support analytics.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills and facility with numbers and data
• Exceptional analytical ability in Excel and other analytics tools
• Passion for mission-oriented work serving tenants, low-income folks, and working people, from diverse backgrounds and experience
• Deep commitment to racial, social, & economic justice and equity
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, all-hands-on-deck environment
• Proficiency and/or experience with CRMs such as HubSpot or Salesforce is preferred

Additional Details:

• The position includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), and 401k.
• A competitive salary of $60,000 a year
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis but must be received by February 29, 2024
• The estimated time to complete the recruitment process will be by February March 15, 2024
• As in-person work is sometimes required, all employees at CEDP & CED Law are expected to maintain current vaccination status in keeping with CDC recommendations.
• CEDP is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.