In A Nutshell
Conduct analyses and develop strategies that move initiatives to action, facilitate conversations around moving communities and making progress forward, and build technological solutions that solve access and dissemination hurdles.
Responsibilities
Making Meaning of Data
- Plan and execute data analysis and research leading to actionable insights for Executive Team, internal departments, external partners, and national audience for more informed decision-making. For typical engagements:
- Develop and present content for internal team members, investors, network partners, national education and adjacent sector leaders to highlight needs, opportunities, and progress toward social outcome goals. Functions include extracting, cleaning, maintaining quality, aggregating, and visualizing data and then documenting processes.
- Prepare high-impact materials, PowerPoint presentations, and memos to communicate key findings
- Use analytical tools and create data visualizations to support network and national partners. Conduct analyses to advance strategies on key education priorities using large datasets, both quantitative and qualitative, to extract findings.
- Engage in new, complex challenges with team and various stakeholders such as connecting local partnership education data with national education data.
- Work extensively in analysis tools, e.g., R, Python, and/or SQL etc. Work in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and/or GIS software.
Field Learning Support
- Support the Cradle to Career Network in identifying key population variables and data sources to understand local community needs and progress over time.
- Provide consultation and strategic assistance to partners on matters of data analytics, building their capability to use data for continuous improvement.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skillset
- 4+ years developing tools and processes to streamline analyses and extracting insights from data.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and R or Python.
- High attention to detail and strong project management skills.
- Ability to incorporate feedback from a team, share feedback, and collaborate to improve work products (individual and team).
- Demonstrated history of meeting deadlines while balancing competing priorities across multiple projects.
- Strong data communication, report writing and presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information to a wide variety of audiences.
- Applicants must have gone through the PK-12 years in the U.S. education system or have extensive experience working in a school district.
- Insatiable desire to transform student achievement across the United States and the belief that education can be an equalizer.