What are the responsibilities and job description for the Educational Data Analyst position at South Washington County Schools?
Position Educational Data Analyst FTE 1.0 Location District Service Center Compensation $82,995.84/year - $92,141.70/year Anticipated Start Date As soon as possible Additional Information 12 month Independent position
261 duty days
Benefits:
SoWashCo Schools offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as life insurance, supplemental life insurance, dependent life insurance, and long-term disability coverage. We also offer voluntary plans such as accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and identity protection, along with flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and retirement plans. These benefits reflect our commitment to supporting your health and well-being.
Visit our benefits page for more detailed information.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position is part of a team that manages and interfaces with multiple databases to support the departments of: Student Information, Program Evaluation, Research, and Assessment, as well as all operations departments including: Human Resources, Finance, Transportation, Nutrition Services, Communications, and Technology. The Education Data Analyst partners with all other district departments to make informed data-based decisions. This position organizes, maintains and creates methods to display, report, and provide greater access to student information for administration, teachers, families and the community.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Required:
261 duty days
Benefits:
SoWashCo Schools offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support our employees. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as life insurance, supplemental life insurance, dependent life insurance, and long-term disability coverage. We also offer voluntary plans such as accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and identity protection, along with flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and retirement plans. These benefits reflect our commitment to supporting your health and well-being.
Visit our benefits page for more detailed information.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position is part of a team that manages and interfaces with multiple databases to support the departments of: Student Information, Program Evaluation, Research, and Assessment, as well as all operations departments including: Human Resources, Finance, Transportation, Nutrition Services, Communications, and Technology. The Education Data Analyst partners with all other district departments to make informed data-based decisions. This position organizes, maintains and creates methods to display, report, and provide greater access to student information for administration, teachers, families and the community.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Extract, manipulate, and display electronic data elements into tables, data visualizations and other automated reports. Link multiple databases to query, derive, and generate custom reports.
- Maintain and update databases to evaluate investments in district programs.
- Maintain, develop, and document district data warehouse reports. Create usable data visualizations and reports for varied audiences including School Board, Administrators, and the public in general. Represent multiple facets of educational outcome data into understandable reports that lead to specific action steps.
- Exchange student information in a bi-directional method to update various systems on an ongoing basis.
- Maintain consistent data management. Understand and recognize the importance of research and evaluation ethics, data integrity, data privacy laws, audits, and techniques to ensure efficiencies and accuracy of data storage.
- Development of complex data extraction. Write queries and code to pull educational data into manageable units to answer research and evaluation questions and complete data requests.
- Provide organizational oversight including plan and schedule work so that resources are used appropriately, and goals are met; schedule the flow of activities; establish procedures; regulate activities; and monitor projects to meet deadlines.
- Support student information in compliance with state and federal reporting requirements.
- Provide formal and informal training in the use of both standardized software (i.e. Excel, Google Sheets, Access, SQL Management studio) and customized applications to staff members for data collection, analysis and review.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required:
- Two-year degree in computer science, information systems or equivalent area and/or experience.
- Exceptional skills with software and database languages related to: SQL Server, TSQL, SSRS, SSIS, ASP.NET, SPSS, R, Word, Excel, & Google applications.
- Ability to understand and maintain views, stored procedures and SSIS packages.
- Ability to generate rosters and populate applications with CSV and Excel data sheets.
- ETL background.
- Demonstrated ability to use SQL to aggregate and summarize data in specific ways.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct statistical analyses.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory guidelines related to the protection of student data.
- Ability to create customized reports and data automations.
- Demonstrated ability to create engaging and easy to interpret data visualizations.
- Demonstrated work with data-warehouse programs.
- Possessing exemplary professional ethics and personal integrity.
- Prompt, regular and reliable attendance.
- Communicates with students, parents, co-workers, supervisors, and the community in a positive and responsive way that is consistently welcoming and enhances effective work relationships.
- Demonstrates an appreciation of diversity in all interactions and job functions.
- Four-year degree in computer science, information systems or equivalent area and/or experience.
- Worked in an educational system or organization.
- Experience extracting from Student Information Systems.
- Understanding of educational processes related to state and/or local testing.
- Knowledge of educational assessments and measurement.
- Proven expertise and commitment to best practices and continuous improvement.
- Skills in communication, problem solving, public and interpersonal relations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage long-term projects with final products/documents.
- Application development experience.
Salary : $82,996 - $92,142
