Business Analyst
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🏷️ Data Science📝 Contract📈 Mid Level🇨🇦 Edmonton, Canada
2h ago
Bluestarfamilies·about 10 hours ago
Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning Analyst (Chapter & Outposts)
Department: Impact
Location: Remote/virtual office within the continental US
Reports to: Associate Director, Evaluation
Direct Reports: No
Classification: Exempt
Position type: Full-Time Employee
Anticipated Pay Range at Commencement of Employment:: $56,000 - $71,000
Blue Star Families
Blue Star Families is the largest nonprofit dedicated to making military life better for families. Each year, we support over 1.5 million military- and veteran-connected family members through a national network of 300,000+ members and local chapters in communities across the country.
Our mission is simple and bold: We make military life awesome for families.
We listen, share, partner, and act to deliver evidence-based, data-driven solutions that work for real people. We’re a lifestyle organization, a friend and neighbor, and a trusted partner. Our approach is collaborative, human-centered, and designed with the whole family in mind.
A Blue Star Family is one with an immediate family member — a spouse, parent, or child — actively serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, including the Guard and Reserves. These families face unique challenges: frequent relocations, deployments, career disruption, and isolation. We respond with research-informed programs that create connection, build resilience, and foster a true sense of belonging.
We serve with urgency but build trust over time — because change happens at the speed of trust. Whether we’re driving spouse employment, supporting caregivers, or helping communities welcome military families, we strive for upstream solutions.
Who We’re Looking For:
What You’ll Do Here:
If you're ready to work in a high-performance, mission-driven environment — and to make life better for those who serve — Blue Star Families is where you belong.
General Description
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Analyst is responsible for guiding monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities for Blue Star Families' chapters and outposts. Reporting to the Associate Director of Evaluation, this role collaborates with the chapters team to refine routine post-event surveys, an annual survey, dashboards, and reports. It also works cross-functionally with the tech, communications, and digital innovation teams to distribute surveys, build dashboards, and share findings.
The MEL Analyst helps build an organizational culture that uses data to continuously improve programs and practices, translating chapter program data into insight on impact and effectiveness.
While this role is remote, periodic out-of-town, overnight travel is an essential function. In-person time is critical to how we work — enabling deep collaboration, team alignment, creative problem-solving, and a shared sense of purpose. Team members are expected to travel several times per year for offsites, planning sessions, and company-wide gatherings. These events are essential for contributing to team outcomes, building trust across the organization, and staying aligned in a distributed environment. Participation in these in-person gatherings is a required part of the role and integral to successful performance in our remote-first organization.
Key Job Functions
Data Monitoring
Evaluation
Learning
Other Key Job Functions
Required Experience, Skills & Background
Desired Experience, Skills & Background
More About Blue Star Families
Blue Star Families empowers military and Veteran families to thrive by connecting them with their civilian neighbors — both people and organizations — to create strong communities of mutual support. We believe we're all stronger when we take care of one another.
Our groundbreaking research is raising the nation's awareness of the unique challenges of military family life. With the help of neighbors across the country, Blue Star Families is overcoming the isolation and alienation of frequent moves, deployments, and reduced support from the government. Our innovative programs are solving specific challenges for military families, including fighting economic insecurity with resources that foster spouse career development, creating family strength with rich family programming, and providing critical peer support for caregivers, whose numbers are only increasing.
Blue Star Families is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
EEO Policy
Blue Star Families is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Why Blue Star Families?