Participant Support Specialist - Ottawa, Canada - Canadian Wildlife Federation

Canadian Wildlife Federation

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Your Connection to Wildlife

As one of Canada's largest not for profit leaders in wildlife conservation, research, and advocacy, we are seeking to fill the following position.

Manager, Data Science and Web Development

Who we are

The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is a national, not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to conserving Canada's wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all.

By spreading knowledge of human impacts on wildlife and ecosystems, carrying out conservation actions to protect and restore species and habitats, developing and delivering conservation education programs, advocating for changes to government policy and programs, and co-operating with like-minded partners, CWF encourages a future in which Canadians can live in harmony with nature.

Job Summary

Experience and Education

The incumbent will need to possess a degree or an advanced degree in computer science, and a minimum of eight (8) years of experience previous combined expertise as a database administrator, business intelligence developer and web developer across various a wide array of on premise and cloud-based data/web platforms and operating systems.

Eight (8) years management experience within an environment that fosters equity, diversity, inclusivity, and wellness. Eight (8) years of technical and management experience might be considered in lieu of education.

Core Competencies

Demonstrated and referenceable record of accomplishment in developing and leading high performance data service/science and web development teams.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of a second language is an asset.
Demonstrated and referenceable leader with employee engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, and equality skills.
Demonstrated expertise in the development of high performing data. services/sciences and web development teams.

Technology Competencies

Database and Systems Administration on:

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT and Luminate Online
Pentaho Business Intelligence
Microsoft Azure Data Factory
Microsoft SSIS/SSAS/SSRS
Microsoft PowerBI
Microsoft PowerPlatform
Microsoft CRM Dynamics
Google Cloud Data Analytics
Salesforce Cloud CRM (nice to have)

Management Duties - Staff

Daily management and technical leadership for direct reports on daily data operations along with corporate data service/science and web development projects.

Assessment of staff soft and technical skills along with creation of ongoing training plans to sustain and enhance skills.
Participate in professional and technical development activities and training to improve knowledge and skills.
Approve vacation requests and monitor vacation schedules to ensure appropriate coverage.
Approve employee timecards.
Conduct employee reviews annually and when required.

Stay informed on new or emerging trends and technologies that provide clear benefits to the organization, business partners, and/or customers/clients.

Analyze complex business needs presented by the user community and/or customers/clients and recommend technical solutions.
Attendance and participation in meetings with the IT/Operations team, as well as other CWF managers and departments when required.
Other duties as assigned.

Management Duties - Technical

Data Science

Continual research of new data science technologies.
Lead and help team continually learn and sustain modern database administrator, business intelligence developer and web skills.

Lead and help team continually learn and sustain modern data architecture, entity relationship design, data model design along with data warehouse design skills.

Lead and help team continually learn and sustain data pipelines, extraction transformation and load programs, data warehouse and multi-dimensional cube and analytics skills.

Experience with data reporting development frameworks (Microsoft PowerPlatform, Data Factory SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and PowerBI).
Expert database administrator experience to guide and mentor data team.
Expert SQL query language writing proficiency.
Expert with creation of ERDs, data dictionaries and data management artefacts.
Expert technical knowledge of Customer Relationship Management database data models and programs.
Experience with management and maintenance of Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT database (Modern and Classic view) similar nonprofit donor management database solutions (an asset)

Experience with Omatic Software interfaces deployed on Blackbaud Luminate Online and Raiser's Edge NXT database, along with expertise with Appeal imports and exports.

Web Development

Continual research of new web development frameworks.
Lead and help team continually learn and sustain modern web development skills.
Lead and help team continually learn and sustain modern web site architecture, source code libraries, and development tools.
Experience with PHP, Javascript, Python, HTML, CSS, Java, SQL, noSQL, C# and Perl responsive web development
Experience with web backend frameworks