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January 21, 2012

Salesforce Platform Data Quality Manager, Saturday 21st, January 2012


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About Ashoka: Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship since 1980 by investing in more than 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs in over 70 countries; known as Ashoka Fellows, they are practical visionaries with systems-changing ideas. Rather than building one school or clinic in one community, Ashoka Fellows work at the systemic level by transforming the way children learn or by creating completely new healthcare delivery systems. Ashoka distills action principles that cut across the work of these social entrepreneurs and creates frameworks for collaborative entrepreneurship to more widely author global change. In addition, Ashoka fellows are role-models and active recruiters of other innovators, in part because they apply sector-tipping principles through collaborative architecture that attract innovators wherever they are. It is these key principles and behaviors that represent Ashoka’s core strategy for realizing its “Everyone a Changemaker”™ vision.
Position Summary: Ashoka is seeking a Salesforce Platform Data Quality Manager to drive the cleanup of our database and set in place long-term practices that will maintain data integrity. The selected candidate will work with Ashoka staff and others around the world to identify business process improvements, define functional requirements, propose potential solutions, and interface with technical teams to implement the selected solution. The Salesforce Platform Data Quality Manager will also oversee and provide support functions for Strategic Resources, Global Marketing, ITI and Executive Office teams by playing a central role in executing major marketing campaigns through the usage of advanced database marketing tools, direct mail, and e-mail lists. Also, this position will entail the application of models and selection criteria to create new campaigns within the database, extraction of lists and utilization of the system to update records with contact history data. This is an excellent opportunity for an entrepreneurial, creative, and tech-savvy individual to assist in the transformation of Ashoka.
Specific Responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Work with internal clients to map business process, develop functional requirements, identify gaps and analyze approaches to meet requirements of quality data • Oversee projects to implement approved solutions and resolve data quality issues in a timely manner • Identify areas for improved integration with other systems across the organization, provide recommendations, and work with team members to implement changes. • Participate in team planning effort for specific marketing projects • Design and implement test cell, A-B testing and other methods of advancing our knowledge of current and potential donors • Create queries by applying statistical models and other list selection criteria • Extract and validate lists for multi-channel campaigns • Coordinate with outside data processing vendors for data cleansing, NCOA changes and other updates to information. • Ensure that processes are in place to monitor and report on performance of acquired data. • Monitor and report on data content and coverage in the marketing database, to identify key gaps and analyze headline trends within the customer base • Participate in cross-functional projects that impact marketing data as directed by the team manager • Fully responsible for back-end analysis of campaign results and reporting to senior leadership of organization Requirements • Bachelor's degree in the technical field, such as computer science/statistics, engineering or mathematics • Good understanding of Sales and Marketing commercial drivers. • Knowledge and experience of direct marketing/campaign management processes, including email marketing • Understanding of data handling principles • Enquiring, investigative mindset • Consultative, collaborative approach • Supplier management and negotiation • Strong database skills and ease with data analysis, including regression analysis; comfortable working with large data sets • 1-4 yrs or work experience, including working in a team environment • Ability to meet deadlines, while managing several project • Working knowledge of SAS/Stata and SQL
Other Helpful Skills and Experience: • Direct marketing experience • MS Office suite (esp. Access & Excel) • Reporting and analysis experience • Willingness to learn statistical modeling and statistical software • Experience working with Salesforce.com • Experience working with a major e-mail service provider • BtoB marketing experience • Association experience
How to apply: 
To apply, visit www.ashoka.org/staff-app and tell us more about you. The application asks you to 'list a few words that will help us match interests.' Indicate interest in this position by listing 'data' or 'database management.'
Depending on a candidate's qualifications, experience level, and talent profile, this position could be a full-time hire, or an Affinity Year position. If you're are interested in Affinity Year, make sure to list 'OP-204' in the field that asks for 'Affinity Year/Opening ID.'
We look forward to getting to know you!

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