Assistant Director of Data and Analytics - KIPP Columbus

KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is a national network of free, open enrollment, college preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and life. There are 285 KIPP schools across the nation and the District of Columbia, serving more than 175,000 students and alumni with more than 15,000 educators. 

Founded in 2008 with 50 students in 5th grade, KIPP Columbus currently educates  2,000 students in grades Kindergarten through twelfth.  With a mission to, together with families and the community, create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose -- college, career, and beyond --  KIPP has maintained excellence in its growth, and will improve upon that standard – proving what is possible in public education.

KIPP Columbus continues to rank as one of the top schools for academic growth of any school in the state of Ohio, and is a top performing urban school in the state for academic growth. In our first three graduating classes (in spring 2020, 2021, and 2022) 100% of students were accepted to college and/or military service  with nearly $40 million in merit scholarships from colleges and universities awarded.

In addition to academic excellence, KIPP Columbus also partners with nearly 100 community organizations to provide extracurricular activities, programming, health and wellness services, meals, and more to KIPP students, families, and the broader community. KIPP is also a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association, offering more than 10 varsity sports. 

The KIPP Columbus learning campus will continue to advance student learning, expand partnerships, enable superior programming, and serve as a teaching and leadership lab for schools nationwide, reimagining education through a deeper lens of antiracism, excellence, and joy as we expand to educate nearly 4,000 students on our learning campus in the coming years. 

Interested in learning more about our school?  Please check out our website: https://www.kippcolumbus.org/

The Opportunity

At KIPP Columbus, it is critically important that we provide an excellent and equitable education to all students.  This is an ideal opportunity for a passionate individual to enhance and develop data tools, systems, and processes to help a thriving, successful organization reach its next level of growth.

The Assistant Director of Data and Analytics is responsible for casting the vision for data and analytics across the organization and managing, analyzing, and reporting on school- and region-level student and academic data.  In this role, the Assistant Director of Data and Analytics will develop deep connections with leaders and teachers to meet challenging academic goals and implement organizational data strategies around data-driven decision making and instructional practices through analyses and capacity building at the schools. The Assistant Director of Data and Analytics is a member of the School Support Team (SST), reporting to the Senior Director of Curriculum and Instruction

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Creation and management of region-wide data systems. 

• Cast a vision for the region-wide data systems, ensuring the team has access to data in order to make informed decisions. 
• Create sustainable and replicable data systems that allow for easy access and interpretation of key performance data such as academics, attendance and behavior data. 
• Assist regional leaders, school leadership teams and teachers in the use of academic data, analytical tools, and analysis to drive student growth and achievement
• Support in the creation of data infrastructure such as the warehousing of data, ensuring appropriate linking and communication of data systems and real-time updates of data systems. 

Data Analysis and Interpretation

• Support the communication of data to stakeholders by producing memorandums, presentations, and running reports to help users understand data in different ways in order to be able to drive decision making. 

• Interpret large scale data sets to be able to find patterns, trends and make statistically significant inference from data that will inform region-wide practices. 
• Be able to explain complicated data sets and interpretations to a wide-variety of stakeholders. 

High School Data Analytics

• Support regional leadership with analysis needs around the annual bottom’s up goal setting process.
• Meet with school and regional leadership to review and discuss trends, highlight potential inequities among student populations, and address future data needs regarding One KIPP initiatives.
• Build and maintain One KIPP aligned data products such as the high school academic health dashboard.
• Use the Academic Health Dashboard to consistently monitor academic health outcomes, particularly for ninth grade (in collaboration with School Leader)

Point of Contact/Lead for Network Systems & Data Collection

• Serve as a point of contact for one or more of the following:
  • Assessment systems: Illuminate, MClass DIBELS, STAR
  • Staff data collection
  • Student data collection
  • Survey administration

Data Compliance

• Assist with federal, state and local reporting. 
• Ensure accuracy and validity of all data reporting. 
• Support in the training of school leadership teams on state reporting deadlines and compliance.

• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred
• Robust quantitative and analytical skills, including experience working with large datasets to derive insights
  • Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel
  • Advanced skills with establishing and maintaining data visualization and dashboarding - Tableau highly preferred
  • Experience programming in data analysis languages, specifically SQL and Python.
  • Experience within AWS or other cloud environments
  • Experience in the education or non-profit fields preferred
  • Experience training and communicating data and analytics products to audiences of varying levels of expertise
  • Outstanding project management, organizational skills, and an extraordinary attention to detail
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to interact effectively with all levels of the organization and the school network
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work within an ambiguous, fast-moving, start-up environment, while driving toward clarity and solutions
• Exceptional strategic, analytical, and critical thinking skills

• Belief that outstanding school leaders, staff, and teachers can achieve excellent outcomes for all students
• Ability to persevere with a sense of optimism, strong problem solving skills, and desire to learn and grow in a collaborative professional learning community
• Willingness, and commitment, to go above and beyond to prove the possible with students.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Extreme flexibility, with a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit to accommodate high levels of responsibility and multiple priorities
• Model the values of KIPP Columbus (Imagine, Navigate, Seek, Persevere, Integrity, Responsibility, and Empathy)

Compensation and Benefits

KIPP Columbus offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit plan including medical and dental insurance, as well as group term life insurance, retirement plan and paid time off. 

Statement of Non-Disclosure

KIPP Columbus is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying to the school for consideration of any position (admission, employment, etc.). KIPP Columbus does not discriminate on the basis of disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 4112.02 of the Ohio Revised Code.