Manager, Data and Analytics

Summary

Join KIPP Foundation's Analytics team as a Manager, Data & Analytics, focusing on K-8 academic initiatives, high school/postsecondary education, or talent/leadership development. Support reporting and analysis, data collection, and team activities. Collaborate with program teams and stakeholders. Leverage data to inform decisions and communicate findings effectively. The ideal candidate is a storyteller, detail-oriented, and committed to equity. This full-time, exempt role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible PTO, parental leave, comprehensive health insurance, wellness benefits, and retirement plan.

Requirements

• Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
• Achievement & Outcomes Orientation: Demonstrated record of co-creating ambitious goals with their managers – and driving toward desired outcomes; Effectively monitors progress toward goals for multiple workstreams; Leverages understanding of an organization’s operating model, structure, and core operational process to effectively drive work to achieve goals; effectively works through direct reports and peers to follow through on commitments, ensuring others do the same
• Effective Work Management - Effectively drives work they own through clear action planning. Manages time effectively around competing priorities. Skilled in creating and executing project plans through partnership with stakeholders and effective delegation to achieve intended results on time. Skilled in knowledge management
• Strategic Decision Making and Problem Solving : Effectively uses data to inform work streams; accurately synthesizes key findings from data analyses and can effectively communicate the data synthesis to inform actions, decisions, and solutions
• Effective Teaming and Stakeholder Management: Leads successful stakeholder management, accounting for varied perspectives when gathering feedback; builds coalition by prioritizing end-user experiences, building trusting relationships, and effective communications; able to identify and remove barriers to working across teams
• Continuous Learning: Uses data to accurately assess areas for improvement and teaches others to do the same; values and encourages creative and innovative ideas
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a role focused on quantitative reporting and analysis, data management, and quality assurance
• Experience with SQL or other programming languages/statistical software (e.g., Python, R, SAS, Stata)
• Experience developing dashboards and data visualizations using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to present data and findings in various accessible formats for non-technical audiences
• A customer service mindset with a goal to assist program teams with their data needs
• Familiarity with data quality assurance processes
• Bachelor's degree in data science, Statistics, Information Technology, Social Sciences, or a similar discipline; advanced degree is a plus but not required
• Deep commitment to both racial and educational equity: supports building an organization that reflects the community that KIPP serves and holds self and others on team accountable for centering equity

Responsibilities

• Support the design and execution of reporting and analysis (40%)
• Cleaning, compile, and analyze data across content areas to support reporting and analysis
• Support the design, implementation, and maintenance of reports, dashboards, and other products to make data accessible and understandable to KIPP Foundation and network stakeholders
• Generate actionable insights for key stakeholders and communicate results in a variety of formats, including memos and written, visual, and verbal presentations
• Serve as a thought partner to the KF program teams to identify Support data collection, quality assurance, verification, and systems initiatives (40%)
• Support annual data collection, quality assurance, and verification processes to ensure on-time collection, processing, and delivery of high-quality data to KIPP Foundation and network stakeholders
• Support the development of business, functional, and technical requirements to support data collection, quality assurance, and verification processes and data warehousing
• Support day-to-day activities of the Data & Analytics team (20%)
• Support KIPP Foundation, regions, schools, and community members with data needs, including grant submissions, secondary research, and ad-hoc data requests
• Support with planning and execution for annual, network-facing events, including network retreats
• Support with planning, facilitating, and contributing to D&A team culture and equity development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a K-12 and/or higher education setting
• Experience with statistical methods
• Experience with the following (or similar) technologies: Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk

Benefits

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+)
• 100% paid parental leave
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts