Director Of Data & Assessment

Job Description
Position Overview
Reporting to the Chief Schools Officer, the Director of Data &
Assessment (DDA) is responsible for managing a direct report and supporting an effective data-driven culture at KIPP Philadelphia schools through the management of multiple components of the assessment and data programming. Among the responsibilities of the role are:
coordinating local and external assessment, ensuring sound data collection and storage, producing reports and visualizations aligned to stakeholder needs, and implementing systems to produce data-driven resources. To do this, the DDA will work closely with the Academic Leadership Team to understand the needs of stakeholders across the network and select, build, and continually improve a suite of data tools that empower students, parents, staff, and community members to support our mission. The DDA will also train, coach, and create models for stakeholders to enhance their capacity for evidence-based decision-making across functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
Management
Manage the Student Information Data Analyst
Serve as a member of the academic team to support strategic planning and collaboration in the support of schools
Assessment Management
Manage region-wide support and monitoring of state and other high-stakes assessments
Support schools in implementing required KPPS assessment suite
Support academic team in ensuring assessments are integrated into the data platforms so that data can be easily accessed.
Data Infrastructure &
Data Policy Management
Develop, maintain, and improve data infrastructure over time including tools for data collection, ingestion, storage, visualization, and dissemination.
Work closely with the Regional Managing Director of Operations to co-manage our student information systems (SIS, currently PowerSchool), with a focus on functions related to grade books, credits, graduation plans, report cards, and transcripts.
Manage the Student Information Systems Analyst to maintain key student data and various educational technology systems that integrate with our student information system (including Mosaic, Clever, Illuminate, DeansList, etc.)
Collaborate with our contracted Tech Support team and vendors to ensure working connections between systems and to set up/maintain automatic and ad-hoc account provisioning.
Audit information, correct errors, and build skills in users necessary to prevent future errors.
Establish and document the policies, practices, protocols, and systems to ensure consistent and accurate data practices
Reporting
Create Tableau data visualizations and regular reports that answer questions for key stakeholders to provide insight on student, school and regional performance
Facilitate data analysis by regional and school leaders and staff
Coordinate with school teams and vendors to produce and distribute accurate report cards, data sheets, progress reports, and transcripts in a timely manner.
Translating our mission into goals &
targets that focus our work
Consults with the academics, talent, and operations teams to create data-tracking tools &
select metrics that arereliable proxies for mission progress (goals).
Research &
proposes annual targetsfor school-facing metrics. The resulting goals (metric + target) are ultimately approved by the Site Leadership Team &
Board.
Consult, research and/or propose key/leading performance indicators (KPI’s) that can be used to monitor progress towards goals during the school year. This includes developing models that can be used to predict future performance/progress to goal.
Training &
Support
Train school leaders, assistant principals, operations leaders, and other school staff to efficiently use data tools
Observe, interview, establish periodic meetings, and/or build relationships with key constituent groups (leaders, teachers, operations staff, parents, and students) to understand their experience, gather feedback and prioritize enhancements to systems function, reports, and training.
Prioritize and manage relevant support requests and communicate best practices and solutions to common challenges across school sites.
Develop reference tools and other resources to support ongoing training and professional development.
Other Responsibilities
Educational technologies are quickly expanding and have never been more central to our work as educators.For that reason, other responsibilities will become part of the role as they become necessary to meet the needs of our students, teachers and schools.