Analytics and Insights Manager - The Commit Partnership
Dallas, TX 75247
About the Job
Under the general supervision of the Director of Analytics & Insights, the Analytics & Insights Manager will be responsible for gathering data from multiple sources, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide meaningful insights to internal partners within Commit and external partners; clearly and concisely communicating findings to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership. Overall, this position will provide exploratory and research-based findings to drive the work of the Commit Partnership. This role will collaborate closely with members of the Commit team and statewide clients whose work ranges from Early Childhood Education to College Access & Success and Workforce. The Analytics & Insights Manager will manage a team of 2-3 Analytics Associates and oversee their coaching and development. This position will also support the hiring, onboarding, and training of new analytics staff.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyze a variety of data from early childhood to workforce, both collaboratively and independently, to identify and extract actionable insights (e.g. trends, patterns, root causes) aligned with the Commit Partnership goals
- Independently and in collaboration with the A&I team, will plan and execute data analysis and research leading to actionable insights for internal and external clients
- Develop and present content for partners at school districts, community organizations, public agencies, legislative offices, and investor levels to highlight needs, opportunities, and progress toward social outcome goals
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and community partners to understand their data needs and provide support and capacity building in fulfilling those requirements
- Demonstrate good client service and relationship management in serving as the point of contact between the Analytics & Insights Team and multiple partners within and beyond Commit Partnership
- Leverages visualization techniques and tools to create interactive dashboards for stakeholders and leadership. Work extensively in Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, and Alteryx, and potentially in ArcGIS, and SQL
- Identify and propose ways to automate/improve existing processes in assigned respective areas of work with the help of technology
- Provide analytics support to Commit’s leadership team as well as partner-facing teams. Develop analytical tools to support partner programs and conduct specific analyses to support strategies on key education priorities. Engage in new, complex challenges with team and community members
- Participate in the feedback loop between data intake and insights and work to improve the data collection process
- Manages the Analytics & Insights team by providing coaching, counseling, training opportunities and growth opportunities
- Performs other duties as assigned
Education and/or Experience Required (Minimum):
- Bachelor’s degree in data management or related field and/or equivalent training and work experience
- 4 years in strategy consulting, nonprofit or social impact strategic planning, and/or data analytics work in public education is a plus
- Highly detail-oriented and accuracy and a self-starter
- Strong business and analytical thinking, as well as hands-on execution skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is a must
- Experience with data processing software such as Alteryx or similar software
- Experience with data visualization software such as Tableau, PowerBI, or other platforms
- Experience developing data analysis strategies to develop insights, build improvement plans, and measure impact
- Have extensive experience working in a PK-12 years school district
Preferred:
- Graduate degree
- SQL
- Local knowledge of Dallas County or Tarrant County and/or Texas
Required Licenses (if applicable):
Language Skills:
- Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
- Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
- Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment, and matters in areas of immediate need.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to read and write in Standard English.
- Ability to articulate the levers that influence data.
- The ability to delineate problems leverages data to determine root causes and applies information to find solutions.
- Ability to balance multiple projects and be able to prioritize to meet strict deadlines.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
- Ability to interact with persons of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
- Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
- Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
- Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
- Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.
About The Commit Partnership:
Our Mission
We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.
To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Our Story
Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.
True North Traits
Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.
Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.
Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first†focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.
Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.
Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.
Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.
Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.
Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.
The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.
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