Attendance and PEIMS Sr. Director - (24-25)

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

You can see all our job opportunities at https://kipptexas.org/join-our-team/.

Job Description

The ideal candidate for this role is a PEIMS and attendance subject matter expert who has demonstrated the ability to lead teams through large scale, transformative change, build a positive, student oriented culture and implement sustainable, quality controlled systems.  This leader must be able to drive results at scale, effectively manage a geographically dispersed team and impact outcomes through a matrixed structure.  This leader must also have demonstrated effectiveness in the key areas of routine auditing, on-time, error-free State, Federal and other required reporting and differentiated training at all levels of the organization in alignment with department priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Reports and Submissions

• Coordinate the collection, integration, and formatting of all data required for PEIMS submission according to PEIMS Data Standards.

• Establish timelines and distribute a calendar of PEIMS related deadlines for PEIMS Submissions, capturing, processing, verifying, and reporting data to TEA.
• Develop procedures to collect student data as required by the rules and regulations stated in the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook and the PEIMS Data Standards in order to produce accurate and timely Texas Education Agency reports.
• Provide edit reports for district verification to provide security, privacy, and compliance with all applicable state and federal laws and sound principles of student accounting.
• Provide appropriate district and campus-level reports as requested by district/campus personnel.
• Utilize research and diagnostic problem solving techniques to resolve problems.
• Coordinate the collection, integration, and formatting of all data required for PEIMS submission according to PEIMS Data Standards.
• Responsible for the submission of fall, mid-year, summer and extended year programs reports to the state.
• Run edits, reports and verification checks on data to ensure accuracy of information.
• Distribute edits and reports to appropriate staff for analysis, verification, and correction.
• Comply with the following District standards for Texas and Federal attendance accounting laws and procedures in the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook.
• Responsible for assigning Texas State Service ID's for all state approved courses as described in the PEIMS Data Standards.
• Responsible for PID reporting: (Personal Identification Database) error percentage standards as described in the PEIMS Data Standards.
• Responsible for PET reporting (PID enrollment tracking) as required by TEA PEIMS.
• Responsible for facilitation of KIPP Foundation, grant and other third party reporting derived from PEIMS data or related student data activities
• Produce PEIMS-related (attendance, discipline, special populations, etc.) reports and data analysis as requested.
• Facilitate and submit Early Childhood Data Collection.

Auditing

• Develop sustainable, effective auditing systems for all areas