The Cradle to Career Partnership (C2C) of Pima County serves as a catalyst for working together, across sectors, and along the educational continuum to drive better results in education, for every child from cradle to career. Reporting to the C2C Data Manager, this is a full time position for a motivated individual who is eager to learn, detail oriented, an analytic thinker, and can communicate effectively.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Support C2C Data Manager in providing data support to C2C leadership, networks, and partners in order to ensure collaborative efforts are data driven and continuously improving, including developing platforms and processes to increase the accessibility and usability of data throughout the partnership.
- Help implement education data projects through the entire continuous improvement cycle, including navigating data sharing agreements and partnerships, project implementation, data collection, data entry and cleaning, and analysis to identify key insights.
- Assist with the updating of annual community impact report data and documenting data sources.
- Provide technical support to partners using a shared online data management tool, including participating in relevant training to ensure data quality, ability to customize interface, and create customized reports.
- Assist in the updating of data tools that are shared with partners, such as interactive dashboards and data reports.
- Support Data Manager and other C2C staff in work sessions and presentations
- Conduct reviews of relevant educational research and stay knowledgeable of best practices regarding academic interventions and strategies.
- Responsible for upholding high standards of data security, privacy, and ethics.
- Responsible for working with Data Manager to ensure quality of C2C data products including implementing strong review processes and transparently documenting methodology.
- Build knowledge of continuous improvement methods and tools to educate and support C2C Change Networks and partners.
- Assist in the monitoring and documentation Change Networks’ progress.
- Build relationships and work collaboratively with data staff within government agencies, education institutions and community organizations.
- Assist in other C2C Partnership activities and events as needed.
- Assist in other United Way initiatives and meetings as needed.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Skills/Experience:
- Coursework and/or experience in data analysis, research methodology, or relevant field.
- Passion for managing the quality & accuracy of data and analytics, including checking your and others’ work.
- Knowledge of analytical and evaluation methods, and procedures to research and interpret data/information.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to define problems, collect data and draw conclusions.
- Ability to communicate effectively and establish rapport with small team.
Preferred
- Experience with data management and tracking tools such as Efforts to Outcomes (ETO), or equivalent.
- Knowledge of relational databases, database design, and query writing.
- Some background in statistics.
- Understanding of the Pima County education system and publicly available education-related data.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Experience meeting deadlines for multiple projects in a fast-paced small team environment.
- Experience supporting non-profits or government agencies using data.
- Ability to present and train.
- Experience creating analytical products such as visualizations, dashboards, metrics, etc.
- Continuous quality improvement tools and techniques.
Knowledge & Technical Skills
- Excellent project management and organizational skills; ability to manage details and work independently; excellent written and oral communication skills and strong interpersonal skills required. Strong knowledge of early education and K-12 landscape and issues highly desired. Demonstrated passion for the transformative power of education will be a key qualification for any applicant.
Compensation/Benefits:
Salary Range: $42,000 to $47,000 DOE
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Feb 7 2018
Active Until:
Mar 7 2018
Hiring Organization:
United Way Worldwide
industry:
Nonprofit