Career Opportunity: Community Impact Analyst with Cincinnati Development Fund in Cincinnati, OH

Are you interested in a role that bridges data analysis and community impact? Do you enjoy working with both quantitative data and qualitative insights to tell meaningful stories? Are you motivated by community development and place‑based impact work? If you said yes, we’d love to speak with you!

As the Community Impact Analyst, you will join CDF’s Strategy team to measure and communicate the impact of our lending work by combining data analysis and storytelling. You will analyze loan‑level and market data, engage borrowers through surveys and interviews, and compile impact stories that inform strategy and decision‑making.

You will work closely with the lending, strategy/compliance/programs, and finance teams to ensure data integrity and produce impact reports that support stronger outcomes in underserved communities.

Other Responsibilities Include:

• Maintain accurate and consistent data across CDF’s data collection systems.
• Collect and analyze relevant external data from public sources to inform market and strategic decisions.
• Partner with internal teams to define key performance indicators, track impact, and support strategic planning.
• Analyze loan, project, and community data to assess the reach and effectiveness of CDF’s investments.
• Support grant applications, community engagement efforts, compliance reporting, and capital deployment with data‑driven insights.
• Design and administer surveys and conduct borrower interviews to gather qualitative and quantitative data.
• Translate data into clear metrics, impact narratives, and insights for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Strategy team to develop reports, presentations, and impact communications.
• Assist with quarterly and annual compliance reporting.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, geography, GIS, economics, public policy, finance, communications, or similar.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience (including internships).
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel; experience with Power BI or Tableau preferred.
• Experience working with socioeconomic or community development datasets (Census, ACS, HUD, BLS).
• Strong analytical, organizational, and attention‑to‑detail skills.
• Ability to work effectively across cross‑functional teams.
• Demonstrated interest in equitable community and economic development.
• Experience with research projects and impact measurement or social performance metrics, preferred.
• GIS mapping and spatial analysis experience (ArcGIS, StoryMaps), preferred.
• Experience with basic design tools such as Canva, preferred.
• Familiarity with the Greater Cincinnati region and its housing, planning, and economic development landscape, preferred.

What We Offer:

• Competitive pay: $65,000-$75,000 base salary, depending on experience and qualifications
• Generous paid time off
• Comprehensive benefits options including medical, dental and vision insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan (with company contribution)
• Company-paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Technology stipend

Cincinnati Development Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit lending institution that fills a gap not covered by traditional lenders. CDF provides funding for real estate development in underserved markets in the Greater Cincinnati area as well as facilities and equipment funding for nonprofit organizations in the region. CDF’s mission is to provide innovative real estate financing for projects that strengthen low-income neighborhoods and improve lives. Our vision is to be at the forefront of redevelopment plans in Greater Cincinnati, helping low-income communities preserve their historic buildings and create vibrant, inclusive neighborhoods.

Learn More:

https://cindevfund.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cincinnati-development-fund/

Apply online today to join a great team!

A certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE), CDF is an equal opportunity employer and an equal opportunity provider.

The Role:

Reporting to the Associate Director, Partner Services The Senior Data Operations Manager serves as a strategic leader responsible for overseeing system operations, data integrity, and process excellence across all sales and marketing functions. You will lead a team that ensures seamless system functionality while establishing and maintaining comprehensive data governance standards that empower both local and regional stakeholders to make informed decisions.

As the organization's primary guardian of data integrity, you will will define, implement, and monitor rigorous standards across all interconnected systems, ensuring compliance with business expectations through meticulous attention to detail and adherence to established governance frameworks. You will drive organizational effectiveness by identifying and measuring key performance indicators that align with business objectives, while continuously evaluating and optimizing workflows to enhance operational efficiency.

At Kao, we offer amazing benefits that are available to you on your first day of employment (healthcare, 401(k) plus company match), 36 total days off (vacation + holidays + sick) and a reasonable salary range of $110,000 - $130,000. We also offer a hybrid work schedule.

What you will do:

• Manage and Optimize data workflows and system integrations across S4HANA, Salesforce, MSF, Tableau, and connected platforms while maintaining strategic awareness to surface critical risks, opportunities, and change impacts to senior leaders.
• Develop a high-performing team through the activation of clearly defined key performance metrics. Drive proactive team performance by setting and teaching standards while implementing process improvements that support team and organizational efficiency.
• Build cross-functional relationships and lead through transformation. Engage all teams to drive collaboration and innovation. Communicate proactively to keep all key stakeholders involved and up to date on the status of initiatives and projects.
• Oversee a comprehensive data governance framework, ensuring clean data input and output across all integrated systems; document, standardize, and modernize data management processes to maintain consistency and accuracy within current technology platforms.
• Support Regional and Global Projects as the subject matter expert and owner of Customer Master Data in the US & CA. Ensuring all of the business needs for each country are accounted for during the development phase.

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with MIS/Analytics concentration, Management Information Systems (MIS), Business Analytics or Data Analytics/science, Operations Management.
• 3+ years of team leadership experience.
• 5+ years of Master Data and operations management
• 5+ years experience in SAP/S4 Hana.
• Background in Data Governance and process documentation.
• A systems-thinking approach to manage the complex interdependencies between platforms, processes, and teams, ensuring that all data operations are clearly documented, seamlessly integrated, and positioned to support the organization's growth and strategic initiatives

What we offer: A friendly and flexible work environment with great compensation packages, benefits package, ongoing development and the opportunity to enhance your skills and deliver tangible results. At Kao your voice will be heard. Your opinion really counts. We believe that change comes from taking opportunities into your own hands, so we value and reward thinking and new ideas.

Hiring Process: Kao embraces the diversity and the individual personalities of its people because we believe it is diversity that makes us strong. This is why we welcome applications from all areas of the global community.

Want to learn more: If you feel you are as unique as our products and want to find out why 33,000 people across the globe opted for a career with us please visit our Americas website (https://www.kao.com/americas/en/).

Kao USA is an equal opportunity employer, including disability/vets.

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The Consumer Research team at 84.51° uncovers the “why” that complements the deep behavioral understanding 84.51° uniquely delivers.  Our focus is uncovering the “Why,” integrating it with the “What,” and turning these insights into human stories and business recommendations that compel actions to be taken that delight our customers in ways no other retailer can.  We strive to consistently bring this human understanding to the business and serve as a strategic partner to leaders at 84.51° and Kroger. 

A Senior Researcher on our Research Insights team is accountable for the creation and execution of research projects start to finish, applying best practices and standards to projects, and delivering actionable results to stakeholders- both internal and external. The role will execute research across a range of methodologies (Quantitative and Qualitative).  Additionally, this role is responsible for leveraging existing data for ad hoc analysis to support a holistic view that raises the collective understanding of our customers’ motivations and perceptions.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Research Execution & Delivery:

• Independently execute research projects end‑to‑end once scope and approach are aligned, including:
• Translating business questions into research objectives
• Designing or customizing questionnaires / discussion guides
• Managing vendors and internal partners through fieldwork
• Conducting analysis and synthesis across qualitative, quantitative, and secondary data
• Developing clear, decision‑oriented insights and recommendations
• Apply strong judgment in balancing speed, depth, feasibility, and cost in execution
• Ensure quality, rigor, and clarity across all deliverables

Stakeholder & Project Management:

• Serve as the day‑to‑day research owner for assigned projects
• Proactively manage timelines, dependencies, and risks
• Communicate clearly with partners on status, tradeoffs, and implications
• Show up as a confident research partner in working sessions and readouts

Ways of Working & Team Contribution:

• Operate effectively within CR request intake, scoping, and prioritization processes
• Leverage existing research, products, and tools before defaulting to custom solutions
• Contribute to shared learning by documenting work, sharing best practices, and flagging patterns across projects
• Partner closely with Lead Researchers, Consultants, CX Measurement, and Research Operations

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience executing multiple research projects simultaneously with minimal oversight
• Comfort working across data types (qual, quant, secondary) and synthesizing into clear stories
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to translate findings into implications and recommendations
• Clear, concise communicator—able to present insights to non‑research audiences
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑moving, sometimes ambiguous environment
• Tools & Platforms (experience with some preferred): Qualtrics, SPSS/R/Python/Alteryx, Tableau/PowerPoint, insights repositories, and qualitative platforms (e.g., VoxPopMe)

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, ideally in business, marketing, social sciences, psychology or analytics/statistics.
• 3-5 years of industry experience

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Senior Consultant, Investment Optimization & Performance 

Location: Cincinnati, OH; Chicago, IL 

SUMMARY 

The Senior Consultant, Investment Optimization & Performance supports Kroger and CPG partners by delivering a single source of truth for supplier investment reporting, identifying opportunities to protect and grow supplier funding, and translating insights into actions that improve performance. This role blends analytics, stakeholder partnership, and change management to drive adoption of internal tools and embed insights into day-to-day decision making. The ideal candidate has 2–4 years of experience in analytics, category/commercial planning, retail/CPG, or consulting. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Build and maintain standardized reporting and analysis related to investments, spend, and performance. 

• Deliver executive level reporting that provides a single source of truth on investment health, and performance.  

• Analyze investment trends to identify risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement across investment portfolios.  

• Develop actionable insights and recommendations to optimize investment allocation across programs, categories, and time periods.  

• Monitor performance indicators and flag emerging trends or issues. 

• Partner with Kroger teams and key CPGs to review performance, align on priorities, and track actions through to execution.  

• Monitor KPIs and performance outcomes; communicate performance narratives that connect data and insights to broader business objectives. 

• Support development of capability requirements (data, reporting, measurement, governance) to inform the roadmap of internal tools.  

• Ensure data quality and consistency by validating inputs, aligning definitions, and improving reporting workflows. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 2–4 years of experience in analytics, retail/CPG, category management, revenue growth management, finance, or consulting.  

• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel; experience with BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) and/or SQL preferred.  

• Ability to translate data into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-ready storytelling.  

• Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable working “shoulder to shoulder” with internal teams and external partners.  

• Experience building repeatable reporting processes, dashboards, or performance scorecards with consistent definitions.  

• Project management fundamentals: prioritization, tracking actions, and delivering against timelines in a cross-functional environment.  

• Change management mindset: ability to support training, adoption, and process improvements to embed new tools.  

• High attention to detail and comfort working with complex data sets and ambiguous problem statements. 

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred but not required. 

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• Build automated dashboards from scratch using Power BI and/or Tableau
• Perform statistical data analysis on large data sets, resulting in impactful insights and outcomes
• Work with a variety of clients in a variety of industries to source required data for dashboards
• Provide strategic input on data-driven decision-making and proper KPI’s
• Develop net new calculations to produce required dashboard metrics/KPI's
• Build and maintain user documentation, architecture designs, and data flow diagrams
• Solve challenging problems by utilizing analytics
• Identify opportunities to add value to the client's organization by effective use of information management
• Build relationships with key stakeholders responsible for information and performance management in client's organization
• Lead change management efforts in client’s organization

• Two (2) years of hands-on development experience with Microsoft Business Intelligence stack utilizing a variety of BI tools
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, client-facing role where delivering solid work products to exceed high expectations is a measure of success
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• (Preferred) Experience in utilizing tools such as R, SAS, Python, etc.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
• A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets
• Ability to interface with multiple other business functions (internally and externally)
• Desire to build analytical competencies in others within the business
• Curiosity to ask questions and challenge the status quo
• Creativity to devise out-of-the-box solutions
• Ability to travel as needed to meet client requirements

• Competitive pay and bonus 
• Travel incentive bonus structure
• Flexible time off
• Investment in your growth and development
• Full health, vision, dental and life benefits
• Paid parental leave
• 3:1 charity match

WHAT WE DO

Our Data and Analytics consultants work with clients at all levels of the organization, from the C-suite to the shop floor, helping them to deliver on their most strategic initiatives. We’re known for making realistic, data-driven decisions that deliver value in tangible ways to our clients. Our clients ask for us on projects that require a superior combination of technical and business capabilities, people and management skills, and a collaborative mindset. We excel in understanding complex programs and strategic initiatives and breaking them into actionable pieces.

We are actively looking for professionals in the following areas:

• Data Strategy
• Data Governance
• Data Modernization
• Advanced Analytics
• Data Visualization

The ideal candidate’s experience may include but is not limited to the following:

• Have experience understanding and solving real business problems
• Have experience with presenting business case and strategy to the C-Suite
• Bring industry domain knowledge for custom data and analytics strategies
• Experience in designing and implementing data driven products and services
• Experience in designing and building high performance collaborative business and technology teams that deliver high value data solutions, data products and data analytics

Ideal candidates may call themselves Data Architects, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Data Governance professionals. Experience may include but not limited to the following:  

Data Strategy and Governance

• Intimately familiar with data technologies, data architecture frameworks, cloud platforms and the emerging trends in technological advancements.
• Proven experience in transforming our clients from on-prem data platforms to the cloud.
• Lead data modernization initiatives that include platform, technology and tools implementation and adoption.
• Must have experience in architecting and implementing data architecture, data engineering, reporting and analytical solutions across multiple business functions and domains.
• Conduct data management maturity assessments and identify pain points for including data quality, governance, architecture, analytics, metadata management, master data management.
• Demonstrate a rigorous and analytical problem-solving approach, leading information-gathering sessions and preparing and delivering client presentations and work products/prototypes.
• Identify data governance gaps and assess data governance maturity in a complex data environment. Should also be able to Identify the implications for data governance that arise from the technology, current processes, and skill levels in a complex data environment.

Data Architecture and Engineering

• Extensive experience or knowledge of cloud-based data platform technologies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Computing.
• Experience designing and building data platforms that support data lakes, data stores, data ingestion and transformations and API services for consuming data
• Ability to design and build complex data pipelines that either stream data in
• Experience and knowledge of programming and scripting languages, such as but not limited to Python, Node.JS and SQL
• Experience and knowledge of data integration tools and platforms
• Experience and knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practice used in data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Ability to design and build data models using the appropriate technics to meet business objectives
• In depth knowledge of modern data technologies including Snowflake, RedShift, Azure SQL/Synaspe, Databricks or similar technologies.

Advanced Analytics and Data Visualizations

• Extensive experience or knowledge of data visualization technologies such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik and Spotfire
• Experience with statistical and mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning software and methods
• Experience and knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as, but not limited to, SQL, Python and R
• Experience with data modeling, data prep and machine learning tools like Alteryx, RapidMinder, RStudio and Tableau Prep
• Experience and knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practice used in data warehousing and analytics solutions
• Experience deploying enterprise-wide reporting solutions while leveraging data visualization best practices

A career at SEI extends well beyond providing great service and thought leadership to our clients. Everyone takes an active role in building and managing our business, in an environment that runs counter to traditional consulting firms. Our consultants have a “seat at the table” and contribute to growing our business in ways that align to their interests such as growing business development opportunities, conducting interviews to support our hiring process, managing internal initiatives that build our brand or organizing trainings to share what you know with your colleagues. There is no telling what an SEI Consultant will be asked to do on a day-to-day basis – we do what it takes to get the job done.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required-

• Alignment to our core values: Excellence, Participation, Integrity and Collaboration
• Hungry, Humble, Smart
• Demonstrated business and technology acumen
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding and experience solving real business problems
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Experience working with and/or leading a team
• Ability to work across industries, roles, functions & technologies
• Authorization for permanent employment in the United States (this position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship)

Preferred-

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years professional experience
• Experience across our service offerings