Save the Children‘s U.S. Rural Education programs help children in low-income, rural communities become kindergarten ready and achieve grade-level reading and math proficiency by third grade. We employ diverse strategies to achieve this including home visits, play groups, in-school tutoring, out-of-school time programming, summer enrichment, family engagement, community events and more. The Senior Coordinator, Monitor and Evaluation will help us collect data and analyze the data that lets us know if we’re achieving our ambitious goals for children.
The Senior Coordinator will be supporting Save the Children’s Rural Education Monitoring and Evaluation Team with a broad range of tasks including:
- Quantitative and qualitative data management and cleaning (30%)
- Responding to data requests and creating data tables and graphs (20%)
- Secondary data collection (esp. U.S. Census and standardized test score data) and management (20%)
- Data review to ensure program data is being entered into databases accurately (10%)
- Survey scanning and online survey software management (10%)
- Other data-related and administrative tasks as assigned (10%)
- 3-4 years’ experience managing, cleaning and analyzing data
- Intermediate Excel skills including facility with formulas, pivot tables and filtering tools
- Strong data visualization skills: ability to create graphs and tables that clearly communicate findings
- Attention to detail and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent relationship management skills, including upward management
Preferred Qualifications
- STATA or R programmer
- A Bachelor Degree in a field requiring significant quantitative data analysis coursework
- Qualitative research experience
- High-level of proficiency in spoken and written Spanish
- Monitoring & Evaluation experience