Assistant Director of Data and Analytics

Company Description

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

Job Description

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.