You decide what to investigate next, based on signals in the data, community feedback, and emerging risks, then follow the evidence through to clear conclusions and improvement options. Your work will include:

Investigate anomalies and patterns across the funding pipeline (e.g., payment differences, duplicates, mismatches, unusual timing, outliers) and document evidence clearly.

Reconcile records across systems, define “source of truth” rules, and highlight where the data pipeline breaks.

Explore relationships between funding activity and operational signals, for example, how milestone substance and complexity may correlate with time-to-review, time-to-approval, and time-to-payment.

Produce clear investigation summaries that Operations can validate and act on, while keeping the analysis understandable for stakeholders.

Help strengthen governance analytics as the program evolves, including the onboarding of other organizations and more complex funding data over time.

Identify patterns in how time is spent (productive vs communication-heavy work, tenure patterns, recurring inefficiencies, and outliers).

Detect structural weaknesses such as unclear accountability, duplicated work across circles, misaligned incentives, or spend without measurable outcomes.

Support leadership steering through checkpoint reporting (e.g., retrospectives) with clear “what changed / why / so what / next steps” summaries.

Share validated findings publicly with the community (e.g., short briefs/posts): what was found, why it matters, and what will change.

Strengthen metrics, definitions, and reporting logic over time, so DeepFunding becomes easier to measure, govern, and scale.

Coordinate reporting cadence and stakeholder alignment with the Data Analytics Circle lead, while maintaining independence in your analysis.

Experience in auditing, finance operations, governance analytics, business analysis, or investigative analytics

Experience reconciling multi-source systems where records disagree across tools/platforms

Familiarity with grants programs, milestone-based funding, or budget governance

Ability to create dashboards and write leadership-ready conclusions (not dashboards without “so what”).

Comfort collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (Operations, Review/Governance, Circle leads)