Education Data Analyst

Public Consulting Group LLC (PCG) is a leading public sector solutions implementation and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. Founded in 1986, PCG employs approximately 2,000 professionals throughout the U.S.—all committed to delivering solutions that change lives for the better. The firm is a member of a family of companies with experience in all 50 states, and clients in six Canadian provinces and Europe. PCG offers clients a multidisciplinary approach to meet challenges, pursue opportunities, and serve constituents across the public sector. To learn more, visit www.publicconsultinggroup.com.

Our Education team offers consulting services and technology solutions to help schools, school districts, and state education agencies/ministries of education promote student success, improve programs and processes, and optimize financial resources. We work with clients to ensure all students have what they need to succeed.

Services:

• Teaching
• Learning Solutions
• Data Systems
• IT Solutions
• Financial Solutions
• Equity in Education
• Equitable Education
• Recovery Services

Overall Responsibilities:
The Education Data Analyst works as part of a deadline-oriented, fast-paced team consisting of consulting and operations staff that works together to provide superior service to state education agencies and large school districts in the areas of special education management systems, data warehousing, federal claiming, and other programs. The Analyst will be responsible for reviewing, formatting, importing/exporting, transforming, validating, or modeling data with the purpose of understanding or drawing conclusions to drive strategic and operational decision-making.

Position Requirements:

• Project Management.  For smaller projects, the Analyst will manage directly, setting scope, managing schedule, issues, risks, and collaborating with internal and client stakeholders.  For larger, more complex projects, the Analyst may work with a dedicated project manager.
• Documentation.  The Analyst will be responsible for ensuring that all data projects have clearly documented scope and elaborated requirements to manage and validate data engineering.
• Data Analysis.  The Analyst will be expected to profile data sets, recognize the existence or absence of patterns in the data, map to and extend PCG’s Data Schemas, document validation and transformation rules, design and execute import, transformation, and export processes, and explore analytics and visualizations.

• Data Engineering: This role requires an understanding of programming logic, although no experience with a specific programming language is required.  The Analyst will be expected to write scripts, queries, formulas, and procedures to automate data ETL processes.
• Communication Skills: The Analyst must communicate well with clients, team members, and ancillary resources. This includes both presenting ideas or findings, as well as drawing out client or team member key concerns or other relevant information.

Specific Responsibilities

• Maintains data dictionaries, data flow diagrams, etc. for EDPlan processes and related functions
• Ensures client success by working with clients to resolve issues, provide user support, and, in certain cases, develop relationships
• Prepares data analysis and agendas for client meetings
• Travels to and presents at status update meetings to clients, as needed
• Documents client discussions, gathers requirements, and engages technical team as it relates to emerging data structure and reporting needs, in close partnership with the project leads
• Software implementation activities including data migration, data integration, site preparation, and project management
• Oversees and performs data QA, testing, and validation
• Assists school districts in uploading the data into our system

Required Skills:

• Strong analytical skills and careful attention to detail, including the ability to analyze and organize data
• Proficiency in MS Office products: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Expertise in creating/using scripts, macros, formulas, and other similar data wrangling skills and techniques
• Excellent organizational, oral presentation, and written communication skills

Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience utilizing Visio, MS Project, Zendesk, and JIRA
• Research and project management capabilities
• Previous experience utilizing Python, SQL, or other data platforms   

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or prior data analysis experience 
• 3+ years data analyst experience
• 1+ years of schools (K-12), special education and/or Medicaid claiming experience is desired

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As required by applicable law, PCG provides the following reasonable range of compensation for this role: $67,000-$73,000. In addition, PCG provides a range of benefits for this role, including medical and dental care benefits, 401k, PTO, parental leave, bereavement leave.

Compensation:

Compensation for roles at Public Consulting Group varies depending on a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.  As required by applicable law, PCG provides the following reasonable range of compensation for this role below. In addition, PCG provides a range of benefits for this role, including medical and dental care benefits, 401k, PTO, parental leave, bereavement leave.

EEO Statement:

Public Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to celebrating diversity and intentionally creating a culture of inclusion. We believe that we work best when our employees feel empowered and accepted, and that starts by honoring each of our unique life experiences. At PCG, all aspects of employment regarding recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, return from layoff, company-sponsored training, education, and social and recreational programs are based on merit, business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, gender identity and/or expression, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, citizenship status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. PCG will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. PCG believes in health, equality, and prosperity for everyone so we can succeed in changing the ways the public sector, including health, education, technology and human services industries, work.