[2024 - 2025] Manager, Academic Data & Assessment

Company Description

Every School. Every Student. Every Day.

The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) North Carolina is a network of eight tuition-free, college-preparatory public charter schools serving approximately 3,000 students in grades K-12 across Durham, Halifax, Northampton, and Mecklenburg counties. At KIPP NC, we are dedicated to improving life outcomes for North Carolina’s children through culturally relevant, research-based curricula and by clearing pathways for students to achieve their unique definitions of success.

At KIPP, we recognize the transformative power of data in driving student achievement and school performance. As the Manager of Data and Assessment, you play a pivotal role in ensuring our schools are equipped with the insights and tools necessary to make informed decisions. Your work will shape the way we measure success, support student growth, and empower educators to deliver their best every day.

At KIPP NC, we are committed to your growth and success as a leader. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and access to a collaborative KIPP Team and Family that supports innovation and professional development. Your work will directly contribute to our shared vision of a future without limits for every student.

Join KIPP NC as the Manager of Data and Assessment and help shape the systems and strategies that enable students, schools, and communities to thrive.

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will help the Chief Academic Officer, Teaching and Learning Team, the Regional Leadership Team of KIPP NC, and school leaders understand and improve the outcomes and health of the KIPP NC network and its schools. Reporting to the Managing Director of Academic Operations, the Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will steer the assessment strategy for KIPP NC and conduct critical analyses of KIPP NC’s outcomes data, generating actionable insights and recommendations for organizational leadership and KIPP NC school leaders. The Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will elevate data beyond the purely descriptive, building a compelling narrative that will drive and improve impact across the KIPP NC network. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with exceptional analytical skills and the ability to tell a solutions-oriented story with data. They are motivated to build relationships and collaborate on cross-functional teams to address mission-critical demands for data analysis that impact policy, practice, and student outcomes.

This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader to play a critical role in building and shaping a premier K-12 charter management organization committed to supporting all our students to succeed in school and life.

Key Responsibilities

Team Collaboration

• Helps to build a strong, cohesive team culture that reflects the core values of KIPP NC

• Works in collaboration with Teaching and Learning Team colleagues and school-based teams to provide exceptional guidance, reports and resources to principals and schools

• With instructional team colleagues, helps plan and implement professional development and data sessions for school principals, Assistant Principals, Directors of Operations, and teachers

• Contributes to the annual planning process for KIPP NC by prioritizing assessment and insight work, identifying buckets of continuing and new work, and identifying interdependencies

• Leads goal-setting and analytical efforts to determine metrics related to KIPP NC’s strategic plan

• Presents analytics and insights to all members of the KIPP NC community

• Partners with KIPP Foundation to develop and improve data goal-setting and analysis processes

• Engages in cross-functional collaboration across the Regional Support Team to improve and enhance all data systems

Assessment Strategy

• Develops and leads KIPP NC’s agenda around K-12 assessment

• Strives towards 100% participation in all KIPP NC assessments

• Supports school level Assessment Points (virtually and in person) to implement a seamless and consistent assessment process that fosters productive testing environments for students

• Serves as KIPP NC’s assessment accountability representative for the North Carolina Department Department of Public Instruction

• Ensure compliance with all North Carolina assessment regulations

• Understands, internalizes, and stays abreast of the state’s approach to measuring student proficiency and growth data; serves as KIPP NC’s in-house expert on accountability measures and school report card scores, including how to pre