Business Analyst (Contractor)

Business Analyst (Contractor)

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A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

About Amplify

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a solid foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states! For more information, visit amplify.com.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As a member of Amplify’s engineering organization, you will join a versatile team solving the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology – including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines.

It's important that the candidates can accommodate a typically EST meeting cadence. They will need to meet with stakeholders regularly and attend daily scrums.  

“Amplify’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.”

What You’ll Do

As a Business Analyst, you will become a strategic data partner to leadership, working with data analysts, learning scientists, and data engineers to deliver accurate and reliable reports, dashboards, models, metrics, and analysis for our internal business partners. You will enhance data literacy and effective data use at all levels, fostering a data sharing-and-learning culture so that every team uses data analysis to improve their own lives, and those of our students and teachers.

Data Strategy: Co-develop and build on a strategy with internal business partners that puts data at the center of decision making.

Data Analysis: Analyze data from various sources and proactively communicate insights to executives, leaders, and other key collaborators.

Project Management: Exercise strategic prioritization, manage timelines and dependencies across teams and communicate with all collaborators. Ensure accurate and timely delivery of intuitive beautiful data visualizations and business-critical analysis across multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Needs Anticipation and Requirement Gathering: Write detailed user stories, problem statements etc. that clearly articulate collaborator experience, needs and actions. Effectively anticipate future questions and challenges. Collaborate with data analysts and engineers to thoroughly identify data elements, modeling requirements, quality concerns and edge cases for all data projects.

Advance Data Literacy: Build analytic skills and capacity across Amplify, leading interactive training and writing clear, concise documentation. Answer data questions while modeling how to self-serve.

Example Projects You Might Work On

Examples:

Monitor data use to identify power users and data vacuums; partner with these stakeholders. Lead quarterly meetings with leadership to share data usage observations and recommend specific targeted strategies to improve data culture.

Participate in strategic planning meetings and provide data critical to shaping annual priorities and initiatives.

Gather technical requirements, inform design and lead the delivery of a new data dashboard for tracking performance of a team’s new external service level agreement.

Basic Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in a business analyst role; or related experience
  • Demonstrable record of effectively leading large and complex projects
  • Superb communication skills in writing and conversation, with technical and non-technical partners
  • A drive to understand data and key performance metrics and their relevance to our business and product decisions
  • Strong analytical background with experience using business intelligence and data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker)
  • Ability to influence stakeholders, including senior leadership

Preferred Requirements

  • Experience leading interactive trainings and presentations
  • Familiarity with project management software, e.g., JIRA
  • Extensive experience using business intelligence tools, e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud etc., including proficiency in SQL
  • Background in education or in edtech, or other fields with significant privacy, security, and compliance requirements
  • Experience analyzing data and reports from business software, e.g., Netsuite, Hubspot, Salesforce etc.

Compensation:

The hourly rate range for this role is $40-$60.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. 

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. 

 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.

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