About Basta

First-generation college students have what it takes to bring immense value to the workforce, but often face systemic barriers in professional knowledge, networks, and opportunity. More than half of recent grads are underemployed, with most projected to remain underemployed 10+ years after graduation. Basta is closing the employment gap for first-generation students, enabling them to secure great jobs, launch careers, and change the face of leadership in the workforce.

Since 2016, we have built innovative, data-driven solutions ensuring students convert their hard-earned degrees into a great first job. Through AI-enabled, personalized career preparation and partnerships with top employers, we are accelerating the professional journey of thousands of first-gen students at 300 campuses…and counting! Basta participants are now thriving in their first jobs at Bloomberg, Snap Inc., Citi, DonorsChoose, and over 100 other companies.

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Job Purpose & Impact

The Data & Analytics Manager will serve as a strategic partner to Basta’s teams by transforming complex data into actionable insights that advance our mission. In this role, you’ll bridge the gap between non-technical stakeholders and data-driven solutions, ensuring that every analysis, visualization, and data system you build directly informs program design, performance monitoring, and organizational decision-making. Your work will empower staff at all levels to ask the right questions, understand “why” behind the numbers, and ultimately drive better outcomes for our students and partners.

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Key Responsibilities

You will do this by:

• Leading Data Analysis & Interpretation: Partner with program and operations teams to define critical questions and metrics, then design and execute analyses (SQL, Python, Excel/Sheets) that uncover trends and inform strategic decisions, serving as the cornerstone for data-driven program quality and organizational growth.
• Developing Interactive Dashboards & Reports: Build and maintain self-service dashboards and automated reports (Metabase) tailored for diverse audiences, ensuring near real-time visibility into progress against goals and empowering stakeholders to act on insights.
• Ensuring Data Hygiene & Governance: Collaborate with program and operations teams to establish and enforce data governance standards and hygiene practices - defining naming conventions, validation rules, and access controls - while also supporting the development of data models and assisting with ETL workflows to maintain accuracy and reliability.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Monitor analytics tool usage and feedback to iterate on processes, develop reusable templates and training, and foster a culture of data curiosity, ensuring our practices evolve with stakeholder needs and emerging best practices.
• Report on Impact & Outcomes: Track, monitor, and share meaningful impact metrics regularly; translate complex data and stakeholder feedback into clear, actionable recommendations; and work closely with the Development team to translate our impact and outcomes into compelling data for grant writing and reporting, ensuring funders clearly see the value and results of our work.

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Core Competencies in Role

• Drives Results: the Data & Analytics manager sets aggressive, measurable analytics goals (e.g. delivering 90% of requests on or before the requested deadline), re-prioritizes tasks under tight deadlines, and rallies the team to automate reporting wherever possible.

Example: When leadership requested an unplanned funder deep-dive, you reprioritized the backlog and delivered a polished report within the new timeline.

• Collaborates: Builds strong partnerships across teams, fosters shared ownership, and works together to meet common objectives.

Example: To launch a new data-driven initiative, you partnered with cross-functional teams to align on goals and logic, facilitated feedback sessions to refine the prototype, and successfully executed the first live test.

Example: To launch a new data-driven initiative, you partnered with cross-functional teams to align on goals and logic, facilitated feedback sessions to refine the prototype, and successfully executed the first live test.

• Data & Analytics: Expertly collects, analyzes, and interprets large, real-time datasets to generate meaningful insights that inform strategy and practice.

Example:You consolidated attendance logs and intake responses into a unified dashboard that revealed important user trends and guided program design.

• Communicates Effectively: Crafts and delivers multi-modal communications—reports, presentations, dashboards—that address the unique needs of varied audiences.

Example: After a routine analysis, you produced a one-pager for Marketing, a bullet point summary for Development, and a detailed methodology write-up for the Program Operations and Data Strategy teams.

• Customer Focused: Prioritizes the needs of internal and external stakeholders, building trust through responsive, user-centric data solutions.

Example: You created a library of self-service dashboards to enable teams to generate on-demand insights, significantly cutting ad-hoc data requests.

• Evaluating Impact: Designs and implements systematic, multi-level methods for gathering and analyzing data on program effectiveness, reporting findings that guide continuous learning and improvement.

Example: You analyzed results and delivered concise findings from the Program Impact Study that strengthened our grant proposals and funder communications.

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You could be our data analytics manager if:

• You believe deeply in the inherent value and potential first-generation grads bring to the workplace and are excited to build an organization that supports them in achieving their career goals.
• You have 5+ years of professional experience in a fast-paced work environment.
• You have formal coursework or, ideally, have 3+ years of work experience using data analysis & visualization tools like Metabase, PowerBI, Looker, Tableau, Airtable Interfaces, or similar business intelligence platforms.
• You have experience designing, building, and maintaining data systems, databases and reporting processes.
• You are proficient in data cleaning and transformation techniques, including experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes.
• You have strong SQL skills and experience querying and managing relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, Oracle).Experience with Python is preferred but not required.
• You possess excellent organizational skills and a keen attention to detail. This is balanced with flexibility, demonstrated resourcefulness, and an ability to multitask in setting priorities.
• You work collaboratively and build effective relationships with internal staff and external partners to meet shared objectives.
• You take initiative and are self-directed, but also know when to ask for help. You are willing to jump in wherever you are needed.
• You’re comfortable working in a virtual environment using virtual communication/collaboration tools, including Google docs, Zoom, and Slack.
• Lived experience of our fellows (Preferred).

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The Tangible Good

Basta is a remote-first hybrid organization. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package* which includes medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, retirement matching, paid parental leave, and more. We also offer a generous paid time off policy, including 15 paid vacation days (20 paid vacation days after your first year), all federal holidays, summer Friday half-days and an end of year shutdown annually.

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Location

NYC strongly preferred; remote eligible, ability to travel to NYC 4-6 times/year, required.

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*Basta reserves the right to change benefits at any time according to business need.

**Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Basta is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

**Basta does not currently cover the cost of relocation.