Manager, Data and Analytics

Company Description

About the Organization 

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free 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, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 190,000 students and alumni. 

Our mission: Together with families and communities, we 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 just world. 

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities. 

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations. 

About Our Values: 

Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive. We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students. We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions—especially for those at the margins. 

Collective Impact: We are one team. We win together. We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates. We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work. We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes. 

Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge. We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students' potential and a commitment to addressing systemic inequities. We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability. We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged. We leverage data to reflect on progress, own setbacks, celebrate successes, and continuously improve to maximize impact. 

Job Description

About The Position 

KIPP Foundation’s Analytics team supports the use, analysis, presentation, and application of high-quality data and research regarding KIPP schools, teachers, students, and families. These data enable KIPP to drive improvement in results, monitor progress toward outcomes and leading indicators, and inform learning and storytelling. The Analytics team supports a network of high-performing schools by providing key stakeholders with data needed for constant learning, decision-making, marketing, and development. The ideal Manager, Data & Analytics is a storyteller, highly detailed and process-oriented, and is always trying to find ways to improve existing processes, analyses, and products. In addition, this team member is a strong communicator, relationship-builder, and proactive self-starter who centers equity in their work and relationships.  

The Analytics team is hiring 3 Manager to focus primarily on one of these areas: (1) K-8 academic initiatives, (2) High school and postsecondary education, or (3) Talent and leadership development. 

This position reports directly to the Director, Data & Analytics, and collaborates with teammates within the Data & Technology team, and other program teams in the KIPP Foundation and KIPP Network. 

Responsibilities 

The Manager, Data & Analytics responsibilities include, but not limited to, the following: 

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

Qualifications

Skills and Mindsets 

• 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 

Experience and Qualifications 

• 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

Preferred: 

• 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

Additional Information

Work Conditions 

• Travel requirements: Less than 10%

• Full-time, Exempt role 

Location 

It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago. 

Compensation and Benefits 

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $95,500. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:  

• 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 

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.