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New Roots Institute is a growing nonprofit that educates people across the country on factory farming’s devastating impacts on people, animals, and the planet, and empowers them to advocate for systemic change in their communities. Our approach is designed to build significant and lasting capacity for the movement to end factory farming. 

As the Technology and Data Architect at New Roots Institute, you will be the strategic architect of our technological ecosystem, transforming our technology and data into a powerful engine for social impact. In this pivotal role, you'll design, implement, and maintain a robust technology and data infrastructure that enables our team to make mission-critical decisions with precision and confidence. You'll be the critical bridge between technology and impact, ensuring that our data becomes a strategic asset. By optimizing our technological infrastructure, you'll directly contribute to our ability to track, understand, and amplify our programmatic effectiveness.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with a passion for social impact, understanding that technology is not just about systems, but about creating pathways to meaningful change.

Technology Architecture

Technology Strategy & Optimization 

  • Develop, implement, and maintain a strategic technology roadmap to meet organizational needs and goals, balancing cost, security, and scalability.
  • Assess, recommend, and implement new technologies to improve efficiency and fill gaps, focusing on change management.
  • Ensure that our team is making the most effective use of each technology platform by continually assessing available features and related use and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Collaborate regularly with team members to gather technology usage feedback and to identify and resolve gaps in individual proficiencies.
  • Plan and conduct regular team training to optimize technology usage.
  • Focus technology optimization on enhancing team collaboration, communication, and task management in a remote work environment.

Technology Management

  • Manage each technology platform, including ensuring seamless integration of any new version or update.
  • Oversee user access and permissions on each technology platform.
  • Oversee new hire technology onboarding.
  • Manage our website, including maintenance and updates, and domains.
  • Support digital marketing needs related to CRM and analytics integration.
  • Serve as video conferencing host and expert for team meetings.
  • Provide assistance to team members to troubleshoot and resolve technology issues.
  • Manage relationships with each technology platform vendor, including compliance with service level agreements.
  • Monitor and implement applicable technology platform discounts.

Cybersecurity

  • Develop, implement, maintain, and enforce best practice cybersecurity policies and protocols tailored to a remote work environment and our technology infrastructure, including data backup.
  • Plan and conduct regular team training on cybersecurity.
  • Monitor and resolve security alerts and lead cybersecurity incident management and response.

Data Architecture

  • Database Design & Management: Maintain and improve databases and data pipelines (e.g., Airtable, HubSpot, CRM) for effective tracking of organizational performance.
  • Data Modeling: Design scalable, structured data models to ensure consistency across all reporting systems.
  • System Integrations: Build and maintain API connections between platforms such as Google Workspace, Asana, Airtable, Notion, and donor databases.
  • Workflow Automation: Develop automated workflows to reduce manual data entry, increase efficiency, and enhance data accuracy.
  • Lifecycle Management: Develop, implement, maintain, and enforce best practice policies and protocols for record and data classification, security, retention, destruction, and compliance.

Details

Full time. Remote. We will consider any U.S.-based applicant.

Skills Required (Non-Negotiables):

  • Strong understanding of:
    • Technology and its applications in remote work environments.
    • Researching, selecting, implementing, optimizing, and managing IT platforms (e.g., Google Workspace, Asana, Slack, HubSpot, Notion, video conferencing tools).
    • Database design and management, including data modeling (using tools like SQL, Airtable, HubSpot, Google BigQuery, or similar).
    • Developing and implementing workflow automations.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in:
    • API management and system integrations between IT platforms.
    • Coding, particularly in Python, to develop automation scripts, streamline data processing, and support system integration.
    • Cybersecurity best practices and protocols.
    • Training non-technical staff on technology usage and cybersecurity.
    • Translating technical solutions into practical applications for team members with varying levels of technical expertise.
    • Record/data lifecycle management, including retention, destruction, and compliance.
    • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for cleaning and structuring data.
  • Working knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Google Data Studio).
  • Familiarity with CRM and donor databases (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce, or similar).
  • Experience working in a nonprofit, advocacy, or education setting.

Other Requirements (Non-Negotiables):

  • Have a desire for honest and direct critique and interest in growing from it.
  • Be excellent at not missing details or deadlines.
  • Love working hard for a mission you deeply care about—while understanding how to differentiate between working really hard (good) and unsustainable self-sacrifice (not so good).
  • Be willing to meet people where they are and promote gradual dietary change.
  • Share vegan and anti-speciesist values (i.e., you don’t consume animals or animal products or believe that non-human animals can ethically be treated as resources for human use).
  • Be able to consistently and happily see beyond your ego to make the best decisions for the organization.
  • Have impeccable time management and prioritization abilities.
  • Have a strong grasp of English grammar and punctuation, as well as written and verbal communication that you imbue with emotional intelligence.
  • Be able and willing to work remotely/independently.
  • Attend the annual in-person team meeting. This meeting typically transpires during the last Monday through Friday that falls entirely within the month of August.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation is set at $70,000 per year.

In addition to a collaborative and innovative work environment, full-time hires will be able to take part in our benefits package, including:

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance 
  • Unlimited planned paid time off (vacation and personal time, with a mandatory two-week minimum)
  • Unlimited unplanned time off (sick, wellness, and bereavement leave)
  • Eleven paid federal holidays
  • 401k to which employees may contribute
  • Budget for professional development and workspace enhancements
  • Phone & internet and personal computer reimbursement

Application Details

We consider traditional and nontraditional qualifications and carefully review each resume and cover letter. In your cover letter, we encourage you to state how you would add to our culture; what we would gain from having you on our team; and how you align with our organizational vision, mission, and values.

We are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse, culturally competent staff at all levels of the organization. We envision a team that not only reflects the demographics of our country, but also continues to deepen their skills and competencies to serve the full range of our audiences. We strongly encourage people of the global majority, especially Black and Indigenous folks, LGBTQIA+ individuals, persons living with disabilities, women, non-binary individuals, and people of various socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for this position.

Unfortunately, we are only considering applicants based in the United States at this time.

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To Apply

Please follow the “Apply for this position” link. Submit your resume with a cover letter that highlights:

  • Why New Roots Institute?
  • How would you leverage your strengths to advance New Roots Institute’s mission?
  • Because New Roots Institute is an anti-speciesist organization and all of our team members are vegan, if you are not vegan, tell us why, as someone who consumes animal products, you want to dedicate your life to ending factory farming.

*Only applications with cover letters that address the three points above will be considered for interviews.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a priority deadline of February 15. We hope to fill this position by March 1.

You can direct questions to Jesse Tandler, the Hiring Manager, at jesse@newrootsinstitute.org.
 

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