[2024 - 2025] Manager, Academic Data & Assessment
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 predict proficiency accurately; develops and drives approach to educating the region on how those scores are calculated and ways to improve them
Data Analysis
Builds out a systematic approach to response to academic data, progress monitors its effectiveness, and collaborates with leaders to drive results through this approach; uses our academic achievement data to determine which grades and subjects need prioritized support;
Conducts analysis on all assessment data, including defining high priority research questions, conducting the analysis, and presenting the work in visually compelling and easy to understand ways
Prepares and delivers regular reports to keep key stakeholders informed about student achievement, including regional colleagues, school leaders, teachers, the KIPP NC Board, and key external partners
Facilitates data meetings for Teaching and Learning colleagues, senior leadership, and other stakeholders to support strong data analysis and action cycles
Develops systems for conducting, analyzing, and reporting out on school-based assessments (i.e., Interim Assessments and curriculum-based assessments)
Intensively collaborates with Teaching and Learning Team, principals, and teachers to help develop reporting strategy, priorities, and roadmaps
Leads efforts to create new reports, including collecting stakeholder input, developing and refining requirements, partnering with IT on developing a plan to ensure data structure is aligned with the vision, and building new reports in whatever system is recommended for KIPP NC
Data Systems
Builds and maintains data systems for collecting and analyzing data (i.e., Tableau, Illuminate, mClass, EVAAS)
Creates and maintains KIPP NC academic dashboards in Tableau
Collaborates with KIPP NC colleagues to determine dashboard strategy and metrics
KIPP North Carolina Leadership
Participates in KIPP NC academic leadership team that oversees the strategy for all KIPP North Carolina programming
Works with KIPP NC academic leadership to develop a vision and comprehensive long-term plan for the design of integrated, scaffolded K-12 schools
Recommends to the KIPP NC Chief Academic Officer system-wide goals; monitors and reports back to the Chief Academic Officer on the progress toward achieving those goals
Qualifications
Qualifications
KIPP NC’s Manager of Academic Data & Assessment candidates will have the following:
A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP NC and an unwavering belief in the potential of all our students
An unwavering commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion
A strong desire to collaborate with school leaders and Central Office teammates in service to a new KIPP region growing out of two exceptionally strong ones
A love of data, a B.A. in a related field, and 5+ years of related work experience
Strong experience in quantitative analysis and quantitative data processing and management
Expertise in writing SQL queries and other statistical software; proficiency in Tableau required
Knowledge of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction assessment and accountability preferred
Excellent attention to detail and constant focus on data quality; excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate research and analysis findings to a range of non-research audiences
Outstanding leadership and management skills, particularly as it relates to building teams, working through others, promoting collaboration, managing conflict, goal setting, and holding people accountable
An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program, department or organization
Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
Possess a deep commitment to both racial equity and improving the lives of kids from low-income communities; experience working within predominantly Black, Brown, and/or low-income communities
Understanding and willingness to work in both rural and urban communities, including exhibiting resourcefulness and willingness to travel up to five hours within North Carolina multiple days per week based on need
Must live in North Carolina and be willing to travel up to four hours to support schools
Additional Information
Additional Information
Total Rewards - Compensation + Benefits
Salary for this role is $81,400 - $91,400 based on competency, years of relevant experience, and education.