Join the team at Australian Communities Foundation and help us work towards a fairer and more sustainable Australia.

About us

We’re an independent, charitable foundation working with hundreds of everyday philanthropists to address social issues and create positive, community-led change.

We connect those who can give with those driving positive change. We are currently home to more than 380 sub-funds, led by families, individuals, groups and organisations from across Australia.

Founded in 1997, we have since grown into one of Australia’s largest community foundations with a unique national focus. Each year, we disburse more than 1,000 grants totalling roughly $13 million.

At ACF, we foster a supportive, collaborative, and flexible team environment. You will have the opportunity to be involved in projects that make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. We are an organisation built on strong values: inclusion, agency, courage and fairness. We believe in a fairer Australia – one where social, environmental and cultural justice is the norm, and you should, too.

About the role

The Data & Business Insights Manager role reports to the Head of Impact and works closely with the ACF Leadership Team. The objective of the role is to maintain the integrity of ACF’s data analysis and management systems, and iteratively develop data insight processes across the organisation. The role will focus on non-finance-based business functions, including donor recruitment and experience, grant-making activity and impact.

The role encompasses managing and maintaining data quality; providing analytical and data visualisation support to ACF staff; preparing data and information sets and frameworks, and maintaining and iterating dashboards to support the analysis and communication of impact.

About you

You are fired by curiosity and excited by the prospect of being able to help build data systems that can help organisations perform. You are willing to roll up your sleeves to build and improve data-related systems and processes, and to support other staff members adopt and master them.

You are a confident exponent of data integrity who will take the lead in designing processes that protect and maintain data quality and insights with an eye to ethics and privacy where applicable.

You are a steady hand who will make sure that week in week out, the data is reliable and high quality.

You love numbers because of what they can tell you. Data analysis and visualisation is second nature to you, and you get a kick out of helping others see the story in the numbers they work with. You particularly love harnessing data and the insights they provide in the progressive social change context.

Your careful attention to detail and quality assurance, combined with your incisive analytical skills, will help ACF continue to develop, grow, and demonstrate its impact. Your work will help ACF make the case to donors and doers that ACF is on the path to activating a nation of givers to tackle social, environmental and cultural injustice.

You have strong values and bring a positive and supportive attitude to your work.

Relevant professional experience and demonstrated proficiency in data manipulation, analysis and visualisation is essential.

For enquiries related to this position, please contact Louise Kuramoto, Head of Philanthropic Services, on (03) 9412 0412 or email [email protected], using the subject line: Data & Business Insights Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.

More details in the attached position description.