Data Manager Job Description

Title: Data Manager

Reports To: Executive Director

Position Location: Texas

Position Type: Full-time

Compensation:  $70,000 - $85,000

Texas Youth Power Alliance

The Texas Youth Power Alliance (TYPA) is Texas’ strategic youth table. We envision a powerful, diverse, and well-resourced youth ecosystem in Texas where young people can exercise their collective agency and successfully work together to expand youth political participation, win policy change, and advance a multiracial democracy.  TYPA advances youth civic engagement across Texas by aligning strategy, coordinating collaboration and securing funding to scale base building, voter registration, and get out the vote efforts at partner organizations. 

About the Role:

The Data Manager will be responsible for supporting the Texas Youth Power Alliance’s data infrastructure and analytics needs to provide strategic guidance to stakeholders and partners, develop voter contact universes, and manage the Alliance’s internal data infrastructure and processes. Our ideal candidate is a problem solver, quick to pick up new skills, can communicate clearly about data, and is dedicated to progressive candidates and causes.


What You Will Do:

  • Support the TYPA’s data needs and infrastructure

  • Work with large datasets using SQL and other data management tools

  • Assist with the creation of universes, track program progress, and lead reporting and analysis

  • Use mapping and data visualization tools to display voter file and program data and other information and analysis

Who You Are:

To be successful in this position you will have a combination of the following experience and qualities:

  • Data Experience: You feel comfortable with SQL and have working knowledge of Google BigQuery or similar relational databases. You have familiarity with voter file data, election results, statistical models, and/or polling data. Experience with data visualization and/or mapping platforms (e.g. Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, QGIS) is a plus, but not required. 

  • Organizing Experience: At least one cycle of experience as an organizer on a campaign or for a general progressive organization

  • Organized, Deadline-Driven Operator: You are meticulous about deadlines, process, and version control. You build systems that keep work moving across multiple concurrent deadlines without dropping details.

  • Cross-Partner Collaborator: You build trusted working relationships with staff, and partners and you know how to ask the right questions to surface potential needs for data assistance. 

  • Knowledge and familiarity with REI principles: Recognizes ways that race and other identities intersect in the work, especially with communities we serve

  • Excellent research skills and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to non-technical audiences through writing and visuals

  • Coaching and Learning Mentality: You take the time to teach and offer useful, actionable feedback to colleagues whose work feeds into proposals, and you seek and engage well with constructive feedback on your own writing.

Compensation and Benefits:

The Data Manager position is based in Texas. This is a full-time role with an annual salary of $70,000 - $85,000 based on experience. Full benefits including health, vision, dental, and matching 401K. PTO and other leave benefits provided. The Texas Youth Power Alliance is an equal opportunity employer.

Application

To apply, please complete this form by submitting your resume and cover letter. Applications will be accepted through December 1, 2026.