Statistician, Washington, DC

By Evan Herring-Nathan posted 08-25-2014 11:38

  

Employ your data skills for great causes!  

The Avalon Consulting Group is seeking a statistician to build and validate models and conduct data mining for direct marketing campaigns and program strategy.  Collaborate with our dynamic teams on award-winning campaigns for museums, theaters, and an exciting variety of progressive nonprofits and political campaigns.   


What You Will Do

·         Provide actionable strategic analysis for progressive nonprofits

·         Build and validate fundraising models for progressive non-profits

·         Data mine donor files for trends

·         Produce charts and data visuals for presentations

·         Segment mail files and provide output to mail shops

 

What We Need

·         Strong candidates with 1-3 years of experience

·         Proficiency in regression modeling

·         Expert data mining skills

·         Experience with SQL

·         Programming/scripting skills

·         SPSS or R and Tableau are desirable

In addition, our most successful team members exhibit the following:

·         Enjoyment of collaborative, fast-paced environments

·         Execution of responsibilities with minimal oversight

·         Management of multiple projects and deadlines

·         Critical thinking and troubleshooting

·         Consideration of strategic objectives alongside immediate concerns

·         Collaboration with clients, partners and Avalon team members

·         Outstanding communications, including both listening and persuasion

·         Consistent professionalism and respectful communication

·         Eagerness for learning and professional development

 


Why You Will Love Us

Avalon – one of Washington, DC’s most well-regarded, cutting-edge, fundraising consulting agencies – is a terrific place to work. We have created award-winning, successful multi-channel marketing and fundraising campaigns for nonprofit and political clients since 1997.  We love our work, and it shows in our high staff retention rate, our industry accolades, and our happy clients.

We have created a culture unlike any other agency. We’re strategic, analytical, creative, innovative, collaborative, and most of all: passionate about our work. Because every single day, we get to make the world a better place by helping our clients raise millions of dollars to fulfill their inspiring missions – cultural, environmental, social, political, charitable.

We work hard, but we also strive for a healthy work/home balance for our entire team – collaborating with each staff member to outline reasonable expectations and responsibilities, with a work plan for getting them done.

Besides being a great place to work, Avalon offers a rich benefit plan, including employer-paid health and dental insurance, paid vacation and sick leave, employer-paid life and disability insurance, access to flexible spending plans and a 401k plan.

If you have the qualifications above, we would love to meet you.  For consideration, please send your resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to 
careers@avalonconsulting.net.  

NOTE:  Phone calls and emails to staff regarding this job posting are not accepted.

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