Data Strategist, Senior Program Manager

Position Title: Data Strategist, Senior Program Manager

Reports To: Learning and Impact Director

About Us:

The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is a new entity that will deepen and expand the capacity, impact, and sustainability of California's grassroots movements for racial justice and social transformation. The Movement Innovation Collaborative will support changemakers and organizations to catalyze innovations in movement strategy and power building, intergenerational leadership development, and our collective long-term sustainability and resiliency. Through a network of physical and virtual "centers," the Movement Innovation Collaborative will also contribute a key piece of infrastructure needed to fuel transformative structural change across California. This network will consist of new and existing centers serving hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of grassroots leaders in California. We aspire to raise the necessary resources to fuel the mission, vision, and programs of the Movement Innovation Collaborative.

The Movement Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is focused on six core strategies to deepen the power, coordination, and impact of California’s power-building sector. In all areas, MIC advances transformative organizing, strategic alignment and creates program, evaluation, and infrastructure supports that are additive and synergistic with existing movement efforts.

• Organizing Strategy and Innovation (OS&I)
• Healing, Sustainability and Culture (HSC)
• Network of Centers (NoC)
• Regional Ecosystems (RE)
• Movement Strategy & Innovation (MS&I)
• Learning & Impact (L&I)

Position Overview: 

Data Strategist, Senior Program Manager will develop, manage and support evaluation, research, and impact efforts for the Movement Innovation Collaborative’s programs and experiments. Reporting to the Learning & Impact Director, this role will work cross-functionally with program teams to collect, analyze, synthesize, translate and communicate data drawn from programs and experiments to help scale powerbuilding in California. The Data Strategist will also work with the Tech & Security Director and the Database Manager to coordinate software requests, data protection, and other security protocols. This work will strengthen the MIC’s capability to advance its Theory of Change, inform strategy, and ensure that credible, evidence-based data inform decision-making. Working synergistically with other Program Managers and staff, the Data Strategist will be principally responsible for developing and executing Learning & Impact’s technical systems and processes, and will support the MIC’s broader measurement, evaluation, and research functions.

What You’ll Be Doing: 

The Data Strategist, Senior Program Manager will maintain an unwavering commitment to racial justice, economic and gender equity, disability and lgbtqi+ inclusion, and democratic power – with a focus on the following responsibilities in the MIC’s startup phase: 

• Design, implement and manage data analysis and synthesis systems.
  • Perform quantitative and statistical analysis and contribute to data synthesis 
  • Ensure accurate interpretation, meaningful insights, and alignment with the MIC’s Theory of Change and L&I frameworks.
  • Build and manage sustainable, scalable systems and processes that help gather and analyze program data, monitor progress, and measure change across programs and experiments, across the broader CA powerbuilding sector, and toward the MIC’s ten-year outcomes.
  • Ensure that ethical research practices, participant safeguarding, and data privacy and security protocols are implemented and consistently upheld.
  • Provide technical leadership and support on strategy-level reporting for MIC’s program objectives and program evaluation outcomes, including developing measurement approaches and tools.
  • Contribute to the strategic planning, design, standardization and integration of the MIC’s L&I  systems and processes for evaluation, research, and knowledge management.
• Translate findings into actionable recommendations that inform the strategy necessary to meet the moment for shifting conditions in powerbuilding.
  • Lead the development of dashboards, visualizations, and reporting mechanisms to track progress and communicate insights and findings for the powerbuilding field.
  • Collaborate closely with the L&I Director to prepare reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Build internal capacity for organizational evaluation and research integration.
  • Design program survey instruments, conduct developmental evaluation, and write summary reports.
  • Support project management for the L&I Team.
  • Apply powerbuilding frameworks to inform L&I data and knowledge management, analysis, synthesis, and storytelling.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, project managers, and external partners to integrate L&I activities into program planning and implementation.
  • Develop and provide training and capacity-building opportunities for internal staff and external audiences to enhance their L&I skills in movement-oriented evaluation and learning practices.
  • Promote innovative and strategic approaches for achieving quality data collection, analysis and learning across the MIC and MIC’s ecosystem.

We envision that as we move beyond the startup phase, the responsibilities for this position will shift to address the expanding and strategic and operational needs of the growing organization.

Who You Are: 

This individual will be a key architect in designing, managing, and evaluating our core strategies—including movement strategy and innovation, intergenerational leadership development, and healing justice. The ideal candidate will be a visionary thinker with a deep commitment to movement-building, an analytical mind, and a talent for translating bold ideas into effective, coordinated action across diverse networks.

While no one person will embody all of the qualities described below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:

• A strong alignment with the MIC's mission, values and culture.
• Values cross-functional collaboration and building strong and trusted relationships across diverse individuals and groups of stakeholders.
• High-level of cultural awareness and experience working with different demographic and cultural groups.
• A flexible and resilient approach, with the ability to handle strong opinions/feedback well, and adapt to the dynamic nature of a startup environment.
• Experience in leading and conducting applied and other research and analysis and equitable evaluation frameworks

What You Bring: 

Minimum qualifications for this position include:

• Master’s degree in social sciences, education, data science, public policy, or a related field preferred. Equivalent experience or education in research, learning, and evaluation may be substituted for formal education.
• Excellent knowledge of and experience using Excel/Google Sheets, one or more statistical software packages (e.g., SPSS, STATA, R, etc.), data and information management solutions (especially Qualtrics and Salesforce), and data visualization applications (e.g., Tableau).  
• Expertise in impact outcomes measurement, social science research, evaluation, and learning in community-based or powerbuilding fields. 
• Minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible experience designing and managing evaluation, research and learning systems, including data collection instruments, analysis methods, and learning plans, or comparable frameworks for measurement and assessing performance, evaluating efficacy and efficiency, and broader research initiatives.  
• 5+ years of experience in data analysis using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience with organizing, power-building or movement-building frameworks, methodologies, and principles.

Salary and Benefits

As for benefits with MIC, below is a summary of current benefits: 

• Paid Time Off: As a full-time employee, you will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days per year, and a generous paid family leave policy. 
• Paid Holidays: 21 days total including a 10-day Winter Break overlapping with Christmas and New Year’s Day. Additionally, 4 Floating Holidays will be made available. 
• Retirement Plan: MIC offers a 403b retirement plan. MIC contributes an employer-paid amount equal to 5% of your salary. Vesting for this contribution is immediate. Employees have a default 3% personal contribution and may adjust that amount at any time.

MIC provides 100% organization-funded medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and their children. Coverage begins on the first day of employment. We offer benefits that reflect our commitment to collective care and long-term sustainability. These offerings may evolve as the organization grows and strengthens, and employees will be updated as changes occur. Additional details will be provided upon hiring

This is a full-time, exempt position starting February 2026. This role is remote; however, the candidate must be in California. The starting salary for this position is $100,000-135,000.

Movement Innovation Collaborative is an equal-opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage those who see alignment with our mission and believe they have the relevant skills and experience to apply. We commit to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect.