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About Digital Promise Global
Digital Promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner. We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners. Our vision is that every person engages in powerful learning experiences that lead to a life of well-being, fulfillment, and economic mobility. For more information, visit the Digital Promise website and follow Digital Promise for updates.
About the Position
To sustain the organization's scaling efforts, the Powerful Learning Team is building a talent pipeline as we strive to engage 30 million learners in powerful learning experiences. We are recruiting mid-level to senior-level specialized experts to fill part-time and/or term-limited positions. This opportunity is ideal for independent contractors who wish to gain experience and exposure within Digital Promise. Candidates must be available during standard business hours.
About Digital Promise Global
Digital Promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner. We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners. Our vision is that every person engages in powerful learning experiences that lead to a life of well-being, fulfillment, and economic mobility. For more information, visit the Digital Promise website and follow Digital Promise for updates.
About Powerful Learning
The Powerful Learning team works to ensure learners have consistent and sustained experiences of powerful learning so they can thrive in an increasingly complex and technological world. Our work advances evidence-based teaching and learning, supports the design and implementation of innovative learning models, engages partners in co-design, and helps shape the conditions under which powerful learning can flourish across schools, districts, and states.
Responsibilities and Qualifications
Contract Data Analyst: We seek candidates with a strong analytical mindset, excellent R programming skills, and expertise in data visualization platforms like R Shiny, Tableau, or Qualtrics. The ideal candidate has 7 years of experience and a passion for transforming complex data into actionable insights to drive decision-making within the organization. Engages with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver timely insights.

• Data analysis & visualization: Conducts exploratory data analysis, wrangles data using R, and develops visually impactful interactive dashboards using Posit, Tableau, or Grafana.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Translates analytical findings into clear, concise insights for non-technical stakeholders, provides data-driven recommendations to leadership teams, and collaborates with technical and non-technical stakeholders to define dashboard requirements and ensure visualizations accurately reflect strategic priorities.
• Quality assurance & documentation: Ensures the accuracy of visualizations through rigorous testing, documents data methodologies, and creates user guides for interactive reports.
• Survey integration: Leverages Qualtrics for survey design and integrates this data with other datasets to enhance overall analytical capabilities.
• Data ingestion & transformation: Designs and implements data ingestion pipelines to collect and consolidate data from multiple sources including APIs, databases, and flat files; cleans and preprocesses raw datasets by handling missing values, removing duplicates, and resolving inconsistencies; and applies transformation techniques to normalize, aggregate, and reshape data into formats suitable for analysis and reporting.
• Grafana dashboard development: Builds, maintains, and iterates on Grafana dashboards to provide real-time and historical visibility into key organizational metrics; configures data source connections; and writes performant queries to support dynamic, interactive visualizations.
• Pipeline & dashboard monitoring: Monitors pipeline health and dashboard performance, troubleshooting data quality or latency issues as they arise.

Portfolio submissions may be provided as a single PDF document, links to online materials (Google Drive, website, video platform), or a combination of both. Please note that reviewers will spend approximately 10 minutes reviewing your full portfolio, so ensure your examples are easy to comprehend within that timeframe.
Applications will be reviewed to build our talent pool. While we cannot guarantee immediate project placement, qualified candidates will be added to our pipeline and contacted as relevant opportunities become available.
At Digital Promise, we also seek candidates with:

• A strong commitment to working toward Digital Promise's mission and impact goals
• An interest in redesigning learning systems to better serve those who are historically and systemically excluded
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional team members to ensure information is shared, projects are completed on time, and goals are reached.

Working Conditions
Digital Promise Global is a hybrid organization. The position is primarily working in a remote environment. Employees are expected to travel at least 4 times a year for in-person meetings and the annual staff retreat. Additional travel may be required based on role and responsibilities.
Physical/Sensory Demands: Fast-paced working environment. Extensive computer usage and online engagement & communication. Must be willing to build inclusive relationships and collaborate with employees at all levels within the organization and external partners.
Compensation
In order to ensure that contractors are paid fairly, the Powerful Learning Team leverages standard rates to pay contractors based on the seniority level required for the role. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience and project scope. Specific rates will be discussed during the interview process.
Hourly Rate: Approximately $50-$75/Hour depending on experience and project
To Apply
Portfolio submissions may be provided as a single PDF document, links to online materials (Google Drive, website, video platform), or a combination of both. Please note that reviewers will spend approximately 10 minutes reviewing your full portfolio, so ensure your examples are easy to comprehend within that timeframe.
Applications will be reviewed to build our talent pool. While we cannot guarantee immediate project placement, qualified candidates will be added to our pipeline and contacted as relevant opportunities become available.
These are project-based contractor positions. We are building a bench of talented professionals who can be deployed as projects arise. Completing our selection process qualifies you for our contractor network, with assignments made based on project requirements and contractor availability. Please note that passing the interview stage does not guarantee immediate or ongoing work.
Digital Promise is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applications without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex/gender, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status.