Mastercard Foundation Calls For Job Applications
ROLE: Senior Director, Data and Analytics
The Mastercard Foundation envisions a society in which everyone has the chance to study and flourish. Through its Young Africa Works strategy and Canadian EleV initiative, the Foundation collaborates with partners to ensure that millions of young people, particularly young women, have access to quality education, financial services, and dignified employment.
The Mastercard Foundation was founded in 2006 as a result of Mastercard’s generosity after becoming a public business. The Foundation operates independently, with its own Board of Directors and CEO.
WORK AT THE FOUNDATION
We are now in an exciting era at the Mastercard Foundation as we ramp up the implementation of the Young Africa Works plan, which aims to enable 30 million young people across Africa to find dignified and fulfilling work.
To make the Foundation more accessible to our partners and program participants, we have built offices in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. These offices provide substantial in-country assistance for the Young Africa Works initiative. We work with governments, the private sector, educators, and other funders to improve the quality of education and vocational training, prepare young people for the workforce, increase access to financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and connect jobseekers with meaningful employment opportunities.
Our ideals serve as guiding principles, transcending and outweighing all other factors. We sincerely urge you to apply your innovative ideas, curiosity, and knowledge to your job.
If you are an experienced Data Analytics specialist looking to make a bigger difference, read on!
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Senior Director, Data and Analytics, who reports to the Chief Digital & Information Officer, will design and implement a data strategy that uses scalable and cost-effective solutions, including modern cloud architecture, to enable the business’s strategic priorities, such as data-driven decision-making and growth targets. The role will drive and enable the groundwork for a digitally empowered organization in accordance with the Foundation’s goals and plan. S/he will give a thorough understanding of data technologies, applications, data solutions, and tools for best utilization and benefit to the Foundation while also reducing enterprise data demand by bridging the business and technological divide.
The chosen candidate will be based in Canada or one of our African offices (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, or Uganda).
WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE
- Setting the strategic direction for the Foundation’s data and analytics functions, in line with business goals across thematic areas and delivery platforms.
- Identifying and utilizing new technologies, processes, and data sources to fuel innovation and sustain a competitive advantage.
- Working across functions to ensure that data strategy and analytics insights are seamlessly integrated throughout the foundation.
- Creating and managing a strong data governance system to assure data quality, privacy, security, and compliance with international legislation.
- Creating and directing a high-performing data and analytics team, which includes recruitment, mentorship, and professional development.
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to better understand their data requirements and co-create solutions to important business challenges.
- Facilitating the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and best practices among team members and across the company in order to improve data and analytics capabilities.
- As a strategic advisor to the EXCO, I provide insights and suggestions based on data analytics to help shape strategic decisions and business plans.
- Collaborating with senior leadership to discover development opportunities and enhance risk management using predictive analytics and data-driven forecasting.
About You
- Data analytics, advanced analytics, computer science (coding), and information systems
- Minimum of 20 years’ experience in progressively senior data or business intelligence roles within big and/or multinational enterprises, including at least 15 years in such senior finance roles.
- Strong “build” experience, including planning, building, establishing, and gaining momentum for new organizational functions.
- Experience across many sectors and geographies is preferred.
- Proven ability to interact at the executive and board levels.
- Exposure to the philanthropic and development sectors is beneficial.
- Ability to work with complicated data (both quantitative and qualitative) and comprehend how to combine disparate data to produce new features, insights, or visualizations.
- Experience planning and delivering BI and statistical studies, including understanding of most key platforms and languages such as SQL, Python/R, PowerBI, Excel, and Tableau (or equivalent).
- Resilience and flexibility in dealing with altering priorities, parameters, and rapidly changing circumstances.
- Detail orientation with a strong focus on establishing, executing, and improving processes and procedures.
- The ability to discover and hire the necessary capabilities and competencies throughout time.
- Proven ability to give analytics using a “use case” approach while also advocating for the end user.
- Aptitude for and eagerness to learn new information design and communication technologies.
- Strong self-direction combined with a collaborative and creative mindset.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to perform a variety of occupational activities in response to changing needs.
- Have outstanding verbal, written, and presentation abilities, as well as the ability to communicate information to a diverse range of constituents across cultures.
- French language skills are beneficial.
- Possessed professional maturity, cultural awareness, and flawless honesty.
- Active listening is used to learn requirements and provide/receive constructive criticism.
- Show dedication to the Mastercard Foundation’s values and goals.
How to Apply for this Mastercard Foundation Job
Closing Date: April 23, 2024
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