Data Quality Associate

Job Description

Our Client is seeking a highly organized and detail-driven Data Quality Associate to improve and maintain the accuracy completeness and reliability of the Institutes alumni database. The role focuses on establishing data standards driving governance practices running data profiling and deduplication workflows and ensuring high-quality golden records for all alumni. You will work closely with Alumni Relations Advancement and IT teams to streamline data intake enrich incomplete profiles enhance email/phone deliverability and support targeted engagement and fundraising campaigns. The ideal candidate is hands-on with CRM systems ETL tools SQL and data validation methods with a working understanding of Indias DPDP Act. This position plays a pivotal role in enabling effective alumni engagement by ensuring access to clean accurate and campaign-ready data

Data Standards & Governance

• Define and maintain the alumni data model field standards validation rules and naming conventions.
  

• Own the data dictionary SOPs and data quality guidelines; publish monthly data quality dashboards.
  

• Ensure end-to-end compliance with the DPDP Act (2023) including consent opt-outs retention and access logs.
  

Data Quality Control & Remediation

• Implement deduplication workflows (exact fuzzy matching) and manage identity resolution.
  

• Standardize addresses (India Post format) phone numbers (E.164) and email formats.
  

• Reduce email bounces and improve deliverability using verification tools and re-permissioning workflows.
  

Data Enrichment & Sourcing

• Design workflows to fill data gaps through forms surveys events and progressive profiling.
  

• Enrich records from approved data sources APIs and manual research.
  

• Run quarterly verification campaigns to maintain data freshness SLAs.
  

Tools Integrations & Automation

• Operate and manage the alumni CRM platform (Salesforce NPSP / Zoho / Blackbaud / Almabase / Hivebrite).
  

• Build and maintain low-code ETL pipelines (Talend Pentaho Airbyte Apps Script).
  

• Use SQL Excel/Sheets and Python (pandas) for profiling cleansing and data validation.
  

• Configure tools for email validation phone lookups geocoding and record-linkage.
  

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Support Communications teams with segmentation lists and run QA checks before campaign launches.
  

• Train staff on data entry standards and data hygiene best practices.
  

• Review new forms integrations and imports to ensure data quality is protected
  

• 13 years (Associate) / 48 years (Lead) in data quality CRM operations data stewardship or database management.
  

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Advanced Excel/Google Sheets.
  

• Hands-on experience with CRM systems (Salesforce NPSP Zoho Blackbaud Slate Almabase etc.).
  

• Practical experience with:
  

  • Deduplication & fuzzy matching
    

  • Data profiling & cleansing
    

  • Address/phone/email standardization
    

  • Data validation rules
    

• Working knowledge of Indias DPDP Act privacy-by-design principles and consent management.
  

• Experience with CSV pipelines APIs imports/exports and ETL processes.
  

• Ability to build QA checks using SQL Excel/Sheets formulas and Python (pandas).
  

• Strong communication/documentation skills; ability to create SOPs and QA checklists.
  

• High attention to detail and accuracy working with large datasets
  

• Experience in higher education alumni relations or nonprofit advancement.
  

• Knowledge of email deliverability (SPF DKIM DMARC bounce categories).
  

• Exposure to data enrichment tools (Lusha Apollo RocketReach) following compliant practices.
  

• Basic BI/reporting experience (Looker Studio Power BI).
  

• Familiarity with record-linkage tools (RapidFuzz ).
  

Understanding of segmentation logic for email or donor campaigns.

Interested candidates Please respond with your updated resume and contact information to /

Best Regards

DAWAR CONSULTING INC.