Associate, Analytics

This is a full-time, non-represented position. The salary grade is 4026. The salary range is: $65,314 - $84,679

Job Summary

The Associate role manages and analyzes data from varied sources to produce District and school-level performance metrics and better understand trends in District, school, and student performance to support the production of performance frameworks that facilitate system-wide decision-making. Assists with the development and dissemination of oral, written, and visual summaries of key findings and the provision of analytic support to promote the understanding and appropriate use of data. Produces federal, state, and locally-mandated reports and creating data sets for internal and external partners and audiences.

Essential Functions

Performance Framework Specialty

• Develops business rules for and calculates performance metrics, including decisions regarding sample determination, school/subgroup attribution, and calculation methodology.
• Manages the documentation of business rules for District-held data.
• Assembles, cleans, manages, and analyzes large longitudinal data sets containing District, school, and student-level data (e.g., PSSA, Keystone Exams, DRA, ACCESS, NOCTI, SAT, ACT, AP, IB).
• Manages the receipt of data sets from external agencies (e.g., Data Recognition Corporation, College Board, National Student Clearinghouse).
• Assists with the development and implementation of performance dashboards
• Assists with the production of federal, state, and locally-mandated reports.
• Creates data sets for internal and external partners and audiences as necessary.
• Fulfills internal and external data requests as necessary.
• Develops oral, written, and visual summaries of data analysis.
• Provides analytic support to various audiences to promote understanding and appropriate use, interpretation, and application of data.
• Supports and assists interns and Enterprise Data Analysts with aforementioned functions as needed.
• Assigns tasks to interns and Enterprise Data Analysts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions

Strategic Analytics Specialty

• Assembles, cleans, manages, and analyzes large longitudinal data sets containing District, school, and student-level data (e.g., PSSA, Keystone Exams, DIBELS, DRA, Gates-MacGinitie, ACCESS, NOCTI, SAT, ACT, AP, IB).
• Develops business rules for calculation of performance metrics, including decisions regarding sample determination, school/subgroup attribution, and calculation methodology.
• Manages the documentation of business rules for all District-held data.
• Manages the receipt of data sets from external agencies (e.g., Data Recognition Corporation, College Board, National Student Clearinghouse).
• Manages the identity resolution of data sets from external agencies, including deduplification, identity resolution and management of unresolved individual records.
• Leads the production of federal, state, and locally-mandated reports.
• Creates data sets for internal and external partners and audiences as necessary.
• Fulfills internal and external data requests.
• Develops oral, written, and visual summaries of data analysis.
• Provides analytic support to various audiences to promote understanding and appropriate use, interpretation, and application of data.
• Supports and assists interns and Enterprise Data Analysts with aforementioned functions as needed.
• Assigns tasks to interns and Enterprise Data Analysts.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, mathematics, statistics, public policy, information systems or a related field.
• Three years of full-time, paid, professional experience, two of which have included working with large longitudinal data sets.

OR

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, mathematics, statistics, public policy, information systems or a related field.
• One year of full-time, paid, professional experience which has included working with large longitudinal data sets.

OR

• Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to by acceptable by the Office of Talent in collaboration with the District Performance Office.

Demonstrated knowledge of:

• descriptive and inferential statistics.
• statistical software packages, such as SPSPP, Stata, and/or SAS.
• management of large data sets in relational database applications using SQL.
• merging disparate data sources to create new data sets.
• the ability to identify and resolve data anomalies or discrepancies, particularly across multiple data sets.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• best practices in data management, including extraction, storage, documentation and database design.
• data warehouse practices
• national, state, and/or local K-12 education data and calculation methodology,

Demonstrated ability to:

• manage and analyze large longitudinal data sets.
• work cross-functionally to ensure that all District-held data are accurate, complete, understandable, and accessible to relevant stakeholder groups.
• research, evaluate, and recommend changes to systems and processes related to the collection, reporting, and dissemination of data.
• communicate key analytical findings to multiple audiences (including non-technical audiences) in oral, written, and visual form.
• train District staff and external audiences on the appropriate use, interpretation, and application of data systems and tools.
• communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• establish and maintain effective working relationships.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.