Job Number:

Posting Date

Primary Location

Overtime Status

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is one of the largest school districts in the United States, serving over 320,000 students in 600+ schools and employing nearly 40,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career, and civic life. In order to fulfill this mission, we make three commitments to our students, their families, and all Chicagoans: academic progress, financial stability, and integrity.  Six core values are embedded within these commitments – student-centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership, and continuous learning.

The Department of School Quality Measurement and Research (SQMR) works to build the capacity of schools to use information and technology, maintain network infrastructure, security standards, and support other departments to meet district goals. ITS provides innovative technology solutions that improve the quality of education for students, reduce the administrative burden on educators, facilitate parent interaction, increase community engagement, and support CPS’ mission of transparency by focusing on the ease and equity of access to information. The Enterprise Data Strategy department works to provide data, information, and insights to key stakeholders and support their use throughout the district to support students, schools and the district.

Job Summary: 

Reporting to the Manager of Data Quality, the Data Quality Management (DQM) Team Lead Support will establish and maintain processes ensuring high-quality and clean assessment data for both state and local assessment. The Data Quality Management Team Lead Support will provide supervision to the members within SQMR who clean, manage, and analyze assessment data. This role will also work closely with the Department of Student Assessment to ensure that the needs of leadership are being met. 

This part-time/temporary position will be compensated for time worked on an hourly basis. The work schedule for this role will consist of an estimated 16 hours per week for an anticipated period of 5 weeks beginning 5/6/2024 and ending 6/7/2024. Due to the part-time/temporary nature of this work, this is not a benefit-eligible position. This role will report to the Data Quality Manager.

The part-time/temporary Data Quality Management Team Lead Support will be held accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Calculation of up to three (3) end-of-year metrics and/or cleaning of assessment data as required.
• Support oversight of a small team to ensure data quality and integrity related to assessment data and assigned metrics.
• Track, organize, and manage data requests related to standardized exams.
• Build and foster cross-department relations between SQMR and the Dept. of Student Assessment.
• Identify opportunities to establish policies and procedures to improve assessment cleaning processes and analyses.
• Assist the Manager of Data Quality with tracking the capacity and assessment tasks of three (3) Senior Data Analysts.
• Adhere to a set of guiding principles for analytic practice as established by the Data Governance Council.
• Use approved enterprise analytic tool sets (SAS or SQL).
• Perform other duties as required.

In order to be successful and achieve the above responsibilities, the part-time/temporary Data Quality Management Team Lead Support must possess the following qualifications: 

Education Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required
• Master’s degree preferred

Experience Required: 

• Minimum of five (5) years of related experience, including writing code with data analytic tools (SAS, R, PYTHON, SPSS, STATA, etc.) required
• Research project design preferred 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Proficiency in Relational Databases (SQL Server 2012 preferred)
• Exceptional organizational, communication (oral and written), and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail and data quality assurance
• Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment, respond immediately to multiple constituencies and meet established deadlines
• Ability to work in a team, with technical and non-technical personnel, and across departmental boundaries
• Flexibility to meet changing departmental needs
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated success leading, coaching, mentoring and supporting teams preferred

Conditions of Employment

As a condition of employment with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), employees are required to:

• Establish/Maintain Chicago Residency -Employees are required to live within the geographic boundaries of the City of Chicago within six months of their CPS hire date and maintain residency throughout their employment with the district. The Chicago residency requirement does not apply to temporary/part-time positions, however, all CPS employees must be residents of Illinois.
• Be Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 -Unless approved for a medical or religious exemption, all employees are required to be up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccinations, including boosters, and to submit proof of vaccination to the district within 30 days of hire. “Up-to-date” on vaccination is defined as being at least two weeks past all primary vaccine doses and any applicable boosters.