Destination Greater Victoria is a dynamic destination marketing organization looking to add to our talented team. With a membership of over 950 businesses, we offer a fast-paced, positive and results-oriented culture. We offer a unique opportunity to contribute to the tourism industry and work collaboratively with a variety of local businesses to drive year-round sustainable growth for Greater Victoria.

Summary of Business Research & Analytics Specialist role:

We’re looking for a Business Research and Analytics Specialist to join our team! In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the VP of Strategy, Research, and Membership Services to gather, organize, analyze, and present data that drives impactful decisions for DGV and our stakeholders. You’ll play a key role in supporting the CEO and executive team by delivering timely and accurate information that meets their needs. Your insights will help shape business development strategies, evaluate organizational performance, and empower teams across the organization with actionable research and analytics. If you thrive on turning data into meaningful strategies and solutions, this position is for you!

This position is a hybrid role, with a requirement to work in-office at least three times per week, requiring the successful candidate to be located in the Greater Victoria region. It is a full-time 35/hrs a week role with a salary between $59,000-$65,000.

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification (graduate degree preferred) in a business and/or research focused field, such as business, business administration, economics, data analytics, statistics or applied social sciences.
• Training in research methods, data analysis, and reviewing and reporting information.
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative organization.
• Ability to multi-task and manage several projects simultaneously.
• Inquiring, with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with tools and techniques for collecting, collating, analyzing, reporting and presenting data in clear, concise and engaging ways for various audiences.
• Experience drawing insights and key messages from data to inform business decisions.
• Experience and proficiency with research, analytics, statistics, database and/or data visualization platforms (such as Excel, Access, Power BI, Tableau, SPSS, R, SQL) as well as best practices for working with, organizing and presenting data.
• Ability to organize, interpret and report on complex data and use descriptive statistics.

Application Information:

If Destination Greater Victoria sounds like a team you want to be part of, we want to hear from you! Please apply with your cover letter and resume.

For a full outline of the role, please see the complete job description. Applications will be accepted for this opportunity until noon PST on Thursday, November 21, 2024.

DGV is committed to creating a diverse, multicultural environment and we welcome team members of all backgrounds and cultures including Inuit, Metis, Indigenous, status, non-status, and non-Indigenous. Employment preference will be given to persons of Indigenous ancestry (please self-identify) as per Section 41 of the BC Human Rights Code and in recognition that local indigenous knowledge is an asset. DGV's selection of employees is based on the criteria identified in the job description so that the best-qualified applicants are chosen.