Data Processing Specialist

About Wilshire Boulevard Temple

One of America’s most highly respected congregations, Wilshire Boulevard Temple has been serving the Los Angeles Jewish community since its founding in 1862 as Congregation B’nai B'rith, the city’s first synagogue. Today, Wilshire Boulevard Temple carries out the mission through a variety of ways, as a center for Jewish spirituality and celebration, a place for lifelong learning and friendship and home to an engaged congregation where every person can make a difference.

We have three locations to serve our communities: the historic Erika J. Glazer Family Campus in Wilshire Center/Koreatown, our modern Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus in West Los Angeles, and our inviting Resnick Campus in Brentwood.

About The Role:

We are seeking a talented data processing specialist to provide support for the maintenance of our various data systems. In this role, you will primarily be responsible for assisting with the migration of data between or among systems, standardizing the formatting of data, and auditing data records for accuracy and completeness.

To be successful as a data processing specialist, you should have a remarkable eye for detail, a meticulous approach to collecting and processing information, and work methodically to ensure accurate and complete data in information systems.

This position reports to the Information Systems Director and is currently 100% work-from-home.  Candidates must be legal residents of California and it is strongly preferred that candidates reside in or near the Koreatown district of Los Angeles.  Candidates will need to come onsite to pick up office equipment after hire and attend all-staff events once or twice every calendar year.

Compensation $18 – $21/hr DOE.

Benefits:

Medical, dental and vision insurance, voluntary life insurance,  voluntary 403b enrollment with salary-based (not contribution-based!) employer matching, org is registered 501c3 org.

Responsibilities:

• Manage data, including data loading/importing, validation, and routine analysis.
• Extract, aggregate, and clean/standardize data from databases or various software applications.
• Regularly transfer data from spreadsheets, web forms, or integrated third party applications to centralized databases, cloud-based storage platforms, or other software applications used in operational processes.
• Perform regular data integrity and quality audits.
• Troubleshoot issues with inconsistent data collection or entry procedures
• Design or audit data collection forms online and in hard copy to support or align with healthy data storage practices
• May be asked to help create or prepare reports for colleagues or management
• May be asked to write documentation or train staff on processes for data entry and retrieval

Non-Technical Requirements

• Ethical and Honest. Trustworthiness is paramount for this role. You must be reliable, accountable, and forthright in your professional dealings/engagements.
• Service-minded. You place high value on providing and maintaining clear/thorough communication and support to the people you work with and for.
• Responsive and self-aware. When available, you are compelled to respond thoroughly in a timely manner to communications from team members and other colleagues.  It is understood that there will be blocks of time where you must concentrate on granular data work without interruption and will not be available to respond in a timely manner.  You must be proactive in communicating this unavailability so that expectations of your response time are realistic.
• Proactive. You seek ways to improve operational processes involving data management and take initiative to ask questions or propose solutions as you uncover them.
• Adaptivce. You observe when there are changes in communication, project needs, or approaches to your work and are comfortable with modifying your engagement to best suit the scenario at hand.
• Non-defensive. You will be asked how and when you communicate with colleagues, as well as how you go about solving problems in your work.  These questions are asked to get a better understanding of your work and communication style, as well as to clearly/thoroughly document operational processes.  You must be comfortable answering questions of this nature from IS team members and be willing to consider alternative approaches proposed by others.
• Highly Inquisitive and Exploratory. You are consistently curious about tools and methodologies in data management, analysis, and visualization.  You are driven to find reliable resources for continuous learning and, when possible, seek to experiment with new tools and processes.
• 2 or more years of experience working for a nonprofit preferred
• Ability to work on multiple projects with overlapping timeframes through to completion
• Must have unrestricted access during working hours to a stable cable or fiber internet connection.
• Must reside in comfortable commuting distance of mid-Wilshire/Koreatown district of Los Angeles.

Technical Skill Requirements

• Experience auditing, cleaning, and standardizing data in Microsoft Excel, MOS Excel Expert certification preferred. This skill will be assessed during the interview process.
• Experience with data entry in Raiser’s Edge database view.
• Excellent time management skills
• 6 months or more of experience working with Importacular and Chimpegration preferred
• Familiarity with Blackbaud Education Management, Finalsite, and School Admin preferred
• Desire or experience designing and executing ETL processes in SQL or Python a plus

Please submit your resume through the Apply Online function below or email directly to isadmin@wbtla.org with subject line DPS Submission – [Preferred Name Last Name]. If you have work samples you would like to present, please send them with your resume or provide a link to your online portfolio in the email should you have one.