Overview

Job Location:
Orlando, Florida, USA

Job Title

Data Visualization Specialist (Intern)

Location

USA – Florida – Orlando – Wycliffe USA Headquarters

 

Job Description Summary

At Wycliffe USA, we collaborate with the global church to attract, retain, resource, and support a diverse workforce dedicated to advancing Bible translation — including staff, volunteers, interns and contractors. Central to our strategic goals is the responsible management of resources entrusted to Workforce Innovation.
The Innovation Workgroup is a dynamic part of the Global Workforce Services (GWS) team, committed to pioneering initiatives that drive innovation and optimize our workforce. In partnership with other team members, this workgroup catalyzes innovative projects, challenges traditional approaches and advances operational health resulting in transformative solutions for our organization.
By developing strategic data analytics, Workforce Innovation ensures our ability to leverage data-driven insights to guide strategic decisions, forecast future trends, and anticipate developments. Our commitment to excellence includes promoting a culture that effectively navigates the organization’s evolving environment. Workforce Innovation is part of a cohesive support system that fosters a culture of adaptability, agility, and readiness for change. Clear communication and fruitful relationships foster interdependence that fuels advances in the Bible translation movement.

Job Description

About Wycliffe Bible Translators

For over 80 years Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has been committed to ensuring that people “from every nation, tribe, people and language” (Revelation 7:9) have access to God’s Word in a language and format they can clearly understand. We believe that accurate, clear, and natural translations of the Bible in accessible formats lead to people entering into life-transforming relationships with God. 

Wycliffe is a catalyst in the global Bible translation movement, engaging with thousands of partners around the world to collaboratively carry out this work. 

Wycliffe’s vision is for people from every language to understand the Bible and be transformed. Our mission is to serve with the global body of Christ to advance Bible translation and work together so people can encounter God through his word. 

Wycliffe is a distinctly Christian community where you can flourish by using your God-given talents and abilities to serve and support the ministry of Bible translation. Your employment with Wycliffe is not merely a vocation, it is responding and making a commitment to actively participate in what He’s doing around the world. Your faith, prayers, skills and experiences are foundational to contributing and witnessing God’s Word impacting people around the world. This is a once-in-eternity opportunity!

 

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and is completely trustworthy, speaking with supreme authority in all matters of belief and practice. Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values can be found here. An exemplary standard of ethics, behavior and conduct that reflects biblical principles are lived-out by all staff. As an active partner in fulfilling the Great Commission, Wycliffe staff embrace and adhere to Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values, all of which are essential to Wycliffe fulfilling its Bible translation mission.

Prayer undergirds Bible translation and is foundational to Wycliffe’s work culture. Our work atmosphere provides numerous opportunities, individually and corporately, to actively live out your faith in Jesus Christ as you work heartily as to the Lord.

Job Description

At Wycliffe Bible Translators, your work is more than just a job. As the Data Visualization Specialist, you’ll be responsible for helping create visualizations of key data across People and Culture in order to advance Wycliffe’s mission. Your contributions will play a pivotal role in helping teams identify and clarify strategies that support Bible translation worldwide.

Together with the Data Strategist, Director and workgroup members, you’ll help provide analytical insights for the area’s strategic and operational measures through analysis, data modeling, querying of data repositories, and design and programming implementation of reports and visualizations. You’ll cultivate, nurture and strengthen relationships with other Wycliffe departments and P&C teams through effective day-to-day management of resources under your care. Additionally, you’ll contribute to ensuring systems and processes reflect our organizational/team ethos while remaining responsive to internal/external partners and attaining greater missional effectiveness.

You’ll partner with the Vice President of Global Workforce Services, Director of Workforce Innovation and other GWS and P&C leaders to:

  • Shepherd and steward GWS resources to further Wycliffe USA’s strategic priorities, principles and objectives.

  • Aid in supporting GWS team engagements to optimize team culture, cohesion, performance and outcomes.

Execute responsibilities with a high degree of confidentiality and discretion.

Responsibilities

You’ll make an impact as you:

  • Faithfully and regularly pray for the ongoing work of Bible translation and for people around the world to experience transformation.

  • Act as an organizational representative presenting the global ministry of Wycliffe and encouraging interested individuals, organizations and churches to participate in the work of Bible translation. 

  • Live-out conviction of “work flows through relationship” by passionately “loving God and loving people” through word and deed. Promote team and organizational culture standards, ensuring high customer service standards.

  • Collaborate on departmental initiatives to provide a best-in-class experience for Wycliffe USA’s future and existing staff. Assist with cross-functional GWS team responsibilities and tactical teams/departmental initiatives. 

  • Model servant leadership and aid in holding the GWS team accountable to organizational and team values.

  • Represent the GWS team in meetings, projects, workshops, and partnership efforts as assigned.

  • Work alongside the Data Strategist and other team members, to:

    • develop operating objectives and innovative business models that aid in the acceleration of the Bible translation movement.

    • drive the continual improvement of functions, processes, engagements and service delivery systems. Analyze offerings and performance. Formulate recommendations for improvements. Plan and manage adoption/implementation as deemed appropriate. 

  • Develop data visualizations that make complex data easily understandable to non-technical audiences.

  • Build and optimize interactive Tableau dashboards that clearly communicate insights and trends to stakeholders across the Global Workforce Strategies Innovation team.

  • Partner with managers and stakeholders as needed to understand data needs and deliver strategic, visually compelling reports and dashboards that support organizational goals.

  • May assist in data modeling tasks, including preparing and structuring data for use in data models.

  • Identify key trends and data insights through visualization techniques, helping leaders make informed, data-driven decisions.

  • Provide guidance and training to end-users on best practices for data interpretation.

  • Cross-train the team on creating and maintaining visual reports.

  • Other duties as assigned by the Data Strategist, Director of Workforce Innovation and Vice President of Global Workforce Services.

  • Supervisory Responsibilities: If needed, coordinates supervisory responsibilities for 1-2 staff in accordance with the ministry’s policies and applicable laws, including spiritual leadership, interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining staff, addressing complaints, and resolving problems. 

Minimum Skill Sets

The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability necessary to perform each duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

  • Spiritual Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ): Demonstrates desire and ability to support corporate Biblical and religious goals and participate in regular work-related spiritual activities without reservation as evidenced by your active participation and willingness to pray with and for others; be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in all verbal and written, internal and external professional communications.

  • Humility: Work well within your team by demonstrating Christ-like maturity and humility that gives appropriate credit to others where it is due. Be willing to take ownership of shortcomings and faults, admit and own mistakes, receive correction or exhortation and remain teachable with a willingness to learn and grow.

  • Creativity and Innovation: Willing to adapt to changing policies and procedures and recommend better ways of accomplishing the task when appropriate. Shows initiative to complete tasks and creatively problem-solve with a second-mile attitude.

  • Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment (including diverse individuals or groups), changes approach or method to best fit the situation, able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.

  • Serving Others: Works well with people, focusing on solving conflict using biblical principles, listening well to others, using emotional intelligence, and developing God-honoring relationships. Accepts feedback and responsibility for own actions and follows through on commitments. Promotes positive people skills and service focus among staff by establishing customer service standards, training staff, monitoring customer satisfaction, and maintaining healthy working relationships.

  • Job Knowledge: Solid knowledge base in database concepts, data extraction and advanced analytics. Interest in solving management and strategic problems with numbers. Have an analytical mindset and framework thinking, can accurately define problems, propose hypotheses and provide solutions.

  • Customer Focus: Enthusiastic about providing high-quality customer service. Committed to high-quality work and prompt attention to the delivery of results.

  • Confidentiality: Understands the importance of confidentiality and works in a manner that maintains the highest level of trust with customers, staff and colleagues.

  • Relationship Building: Effective at relationship-building with the ability to partner effectively within the department and with other directors and global teams. Works comfortably in both mono- or cross-cultural situations, winning cooperation through awareness and sensitivity to people's needs.

  • Interpersonal Communication: Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate ideas and win favor. Strong interpersonal skills in relating to people at all levels of positions and diverse backgrounds. Ability to relate well to others personally and professionally, easily building and maintaining relationships within the GWS team and other departments.

  • Project Management: Ability to manage complex projects and staff responsibilities between multiple teams/departments while prioritizing and meeting deadlines to produce quality results under pressure. Executes projects with acute attention to detail and follow-through.

  • Physical Demands: Ability to spend significant amounts of time using a computer, video conferencing software and/or phone.

  • Technical Skills: Working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office suite and proficiency with Google applications. Familiar with web-conferencing systems, Zoom experience preferred. Strong knowledge of human capital management (HCM). Ability to conduct internet research and learn new software as needed.

  • Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with accuracy and attention to detail. Demonstrates good judgment with strong decision-making skills.

  • Results-Driven: Able to work autonomously and make independent decisions. High-energy self-starter, driven to achieve results. Seizes opportunities to enhance organizational performance.

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in business analytics, data analytics, information systems, mathematics, or a related field is preferred.

  • At least 1-2 years of experience in data visualization, dashboard development, and data modeling assistance; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

  • Proficiency in Tableau and other data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Google Data Studio), with an emphasis on creating clear and engaging visualizations.

  • Strong design sense and ability to translate complex data into easy-to-understand visuals.

  • Experience with HRIS systems (Workday HCM), HCM (Salesforce) and reporting tools (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets) is a plus.

  • Familiarity with data warehousing and data manipulation concepts and tools (SQL) and familiarity with data modeling concepts and software (R or Python) are preferred.

  • Analytical mindset with a commitment to data accuracy and integrity.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present data visually in a way that is compelling and easy for non-technical stakeholders to understand.

Spiritual and Personal Commitments:

As a religious organization and employer, Wycliffe is permitted to and does make employment decisions on the basis of religion, biblical standards and our religious beliefs. You’ll be asked to:

  • Demonstrate a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, as evidenced by your personal testimony.

  • Identify with and participate in a church and proactively seek to grow your faith in Christ.

  • Establish and maintain a team of prayer partners who will support you in your season of ministry at Wycliffe (minimum 3-5 partners).

  • Actively participate in corporate prayer and devotional times.

  • Maintain an exemplary standard of biblical ethics, behavior and conduct within Wycliffe and in your public and private life outside of Wycliffe. 

  • Agree to abide by Wycliffe’s ethics, behavior and conduct standards at all times.

  • Demonstrate Christ-like maturity in all interactions as displayed by good judgment based on biblical values and principles.

  • Actively incorporate your faith in Christ, as well as Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values in all aspects of your daily work.