Senior Manager, Data Strategy & Analytics

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 32,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose —college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. KIPP Texas is a team and family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy.

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

The KIPP Texas Finance Team is a high performing department within our School Support Partners
(SSP). Our department consists of three teams - Accounting, Business Intelligence, and Financial
Planning & Analysis. This role sits on the Business Intelligence Team. Business Intelligence is a highly agile team within KIPP Texas Public Schools with the purpose to rapidly increase the availability of usable, relevant data to all campus and department stakeholders. Our team’s focus is to equip leaders with the needed data to drive mission-aligned action and best support our students.

THE OPPORTUNITY
KIPP Texas is currently seeking a smart, motivated and experienced Manager to bring strong problem-solving and analytical skills to a leading charter management organization. KIPP Texas is committed to using data to drive academic, financial, instructional, operational and talent improvement and decision-making. The Senior Manager, Data Strategy & Analytics is critical to KIPP Texas achieving this work. This individual must be as much a people person as a numbers person—collaboration and building strong cross-functional partnerships are necessary to be successful in this role. This position reports to the Managing Director of Business Intelligence and follows a hybrid schedule (coming to our SSP office in Houston 3 days a week; and work from home 2 days a week). This role is expected to travel to other regions and/or sites 5%-10% of the year.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Data Strategy
● With the Managing Director of Business Intelligence, sets vision for analytics, research and evaluation for short- and long-term work using Power BI
● With input from key stakeholders supports in transitioning our reporting from Tableau to Power BI
● Collaborates and supports our data customers especially Academics, Operations, and Talent Teams
● Ensures work between the Data Systems team and the Analytics team is collaborative
● Regularly assesses and improves systems to reflect best practices, and proactively communicates improvements to relevant stakeholders
● Monitors organization-wide data usage and anticipates future data needs based on organizational priorities and initiatives
● Translates data strategy into plans to achieve goals, including through system performance
management

Data Reporting
● Lead accountability reporting to major stakeholders including our Academics Department, Team Texas Chiefs (T2), and School Management Team (Regional Superintendents, Heads of Schools, etc.)
● Provide projections and predictions to inform our leadership teams

● Execute ad-hoc analysis requests and serve as a strategic partner by resolving end-user questions in a timely, friendly, and proactive manner via our data tickets
● Develop, and provide training to leadership and key stakeholders on the use, manipulation, and analysis of interactive data visualizations in Power BI
● Support in delivering data, analysis, and insights from complex data sets that enable us to drive strategic priorities

Advancement of a Data-Driven Culture
● Supports management team to make data analysis part of all decision-making and continuous improvement
● Leads department to provide timely, actionable data
● With report owners, develop plan to increase end users’ ability to use data to inform decisions
● Provides thought-partnership and strategy with key stakeholders around data with a heavy focus on academic readiness, operational excellence, and talent
● Manages documentation of agreements with external organizations regarding student data
● Experience planning and executing data-driven projects across multiple departments and/or teams, demonstrating:
○ Resourcefulness and strong problem-solving skills
○ Strong organization skills and attention to detail
○ Flexibility, including the ability to adjust to requirements in a dynamic work environment
○ Ability to gather information to interpret and articulate the needs of staff and team members

Data Analysis & Visualization
● Design, build, and iterate tools and processes that help our organization to make equitable decisions (Note: In general, these tools and processes are created in Power BI)
● Work directly with school administration and organizational leadership across all of our regions (Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio) to ensure tools and processes meet the needs of our end-users
● Test, validate, and evaluate data visualizations for accuracy, performance, and alignment with organization priorities and determine the best data visualization methods to present information
● Collaborate with the Analytics Team to scope end-user requirements and project plan for advanced interactive and dynamic data visualizations to meet functional needs
● Contribute to our internal team’s knowledge management systems, documentation practices, and code review process to ensure that we build and maintain infrastructure sustainably

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

●A passion for being part of a team-oriented, mission-driven culture and a commitment for the students we educate

● Experience managing a team and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders

● Analytics experience, preferably at a school system or non-profit for 4+ years

● Superior quantitative and technical skills

• Experience with data reporting tools including Tableau Desktop (preferably version 2020.4.13) and Power BI (We are looking for a candidate with familiarity in both Tableau and Power BI, with a stronger emphasis on proficiency in Power BI)
• Mastery of Microsoft Excel
• Some experience with programming languages, specifically SQL required
• Some experience with statistical software with a strong preference towards R though others are acceptable (e.g. Stata, SPSS, SAS)
• Experience cleaning, validating and manipulating large datasets

● Strong written and oral communication skills
● Minimum Bachelor's degree

TEAM & CULTURE
● Mission Alignment: Strong integrity and deep belief in KIPP’s mission, values, and our vision; commitment for the students we educate.
● Ownership of Team Culture: A passion for being part of a team-oriented, mission-driven culture
where we are a Team & Family and see people first
● Creating Clarity in Gray Situations: Determines a path forward for stakeholders when their
needs are not clearly defined
● Growth Mindset / Learning Process: Continuous learner, team player, and self-starter; values
a culture of giving and receiving feedback
● Influence / Communication: Invests in building relationships and leads with both head and
heart; engages with stakeholders in a thoughtful and deliberate manner
● Management of Projects: Comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and leading
multiple high stakes projects at a time

Additional Information

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.