Attendance and PEIMS Regional Manager - (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 Regional Manager, Attendance and PEIMS will lead the collection and auditing of school level data for state and federal reporting for their respective region. The Regional Manager serves as a policy expert on the Texas Education Code (TEC) as it relates to student data and Texas Education Data Standards (TEDS) to assess potential risk and ensure compliance. Additionally, this role is responsible for participating in regional activities that require compliance review such as academic calendaring, course cataloging, attendance monitoring, master scheduling, and special populations coding.  The Regional Manager, Attendance and PEIMS will report to the Sr. Director, Attendance and PEIMS.

Key Responsibilities:

Auditing/Compliance

• Coordinate auditing of District PEIMS data against campus records and generate reports on findings.
• 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.
• Verify data submitted to TEA and submit corrections in a timely manner.
• Receive PEIMS-related information from ESC and TEA and disseminate to other staff in a timely manner, including updates to PEIMS Data Standards.
• Comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and local board policy.

Reporting

• Ensure timely collection and submission of required federal and state reports including: PEIMS, ECDS, CRDC, FSP, Fitnessgram.
• Develop deadlines and work cooperatively with campus, Finance, and Human Resources office staff to collect, organize, and format data required to submit district PEIMS data in a timely manner.
• Compile, maintain, and file physical and computerized reports, records, and documents required.

Training

• Develop, manage, and present professional development curriculum for student and SSP PEIMS data standards and procedures. Provide training and support to campus/central office staff responsible for processing PEIMS data.
• Deliver training and workflow documentation to school-based staff responsible for supporting data collection with a strong focus on high quality customer service and satisfaction.

Other

• Assist special population programs to assure the maximization of school funds generated via PEIMS.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor or other administrator that are consistent with the general requirements and qualifications for the position.
• Support KTX Finance, Operations and Student Support Services leaders by providing requested regional student demographic data for federal ESSA grant submissions and other operational reports such as SPI, Transportation, and Child Nutrition.

Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to engage key stakeholders and present critical information.
• Strong orga