Data Journalist / Audience Analyst (F/T Contract, remote)

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is hiring a Data Journalist & Audience Analyst for a full-time, one-year term. The role combines producing data-driven stories and visualizations with building dashboards, analyzing audience and subscriber data, and supporting editorial, audience, and business teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and improve Data Studio dashboards that give teams real-time visibility into key metrics
• Ensure reporting consistency and data accuracy across internal tools and platforms
• Own the ongoing health and evolution of our performance reporting infrastructure
• Perform ad-hoc queries and analysis directly from our BigQuery database to support editorial, audience, and business requests
• Perform ad-hoc queries and analysis directly from our BigQuery database to support editorial, audience, and business requests
• Support business initiatives and subscriber analysis in close collaboration with the marketing team
• Report and produce data-driven stories, with a focus on data visualizations and graphics for publication
• Pull, clean, and analyze datasets to surface newsworthy findings for the editorial team
• Collaborate with reporters and editors to support data needs on investigative and enterprise projects
• Develop repeatable processes for sourcing, vetting, and working with public and proprietary datasets

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of experience in data journalism, news analytics, or a closely related role at a news or media organization
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python or R)
• Hands-on experience querying large datasets in BigQuery or a similar cloud data warehouse
• Experience with Google Analytics and Google Looker Studio (Data Studio)
• Demonstrated ability to produce data visualizations or graphics for a news audience
• Strong storytelling instincts — you know how to find the angle and communicate it clearly
• Ability to explain data and analytical findings to non-technical colleagues and readers
• Self-starter who takes ownership of projects and drives work forward without heavy direction
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with editorial, audience, and business teams
• Strong ability to manage and balance multiple competing priorities under deadline pressure
• Experience with dedicated data visualization tools such as Tableau, Flourish, Datawrapper, or similar
• Familiarity with audience/subscriber database platforms and CRM systems
• Background in audience development, subscriber analytics, or database marketing
• Prior experience in a newsroom, media organization or nonprofit is preferred
• Experience with mapping, FOIA requests, or investigative data techniques