K12 believes in Education for Any One.  We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better.

Summary: The Data Science Analyst assists in the preparation, design and execution of analyses and deployed models improving the academic and business outcomes of K12 schools and services.  The position participates as a member of the data science team in identifying and analyzing school data, proprietary data, and third-party data to answer thoughtful and relevant research questions and provide replicable, well-documented analyses with clear confidence intervals and/or automated, deployed models and visualizations.

 Essential Functions:   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Performs data collection, organization and modeling improving academic and business at K12;
• Drafts reports summarizing analyses conducted and presentations that provide high-level overviews of methodology (design and analysis) and major conclusions, constraints or cautions, specific action recommendations, and mechanism for assessing outcomes of those actions.
• Prioritizes replicable work, posts all code and documentation in shared repositories;
• Collects data routinely and independently as requested to monitor and report on implementation of specific initiatives;
• Provides quality assurance of imported data, working with quality assurance analyst if necessary;
• Processes confidential data and information according to guidelines;
• Supports initiatives for data integrity and normalization;
• Generates reports from single or multiple systems;
• Trains end users on new reports and dashboards.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Required Qualifications:   

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field, or equivalent training
• Five (5) years of relevant professional experience, including at least three (3) years of experience performing action and outcome-oriented data analysis.OR
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required. Data Science degree or certification preferred.

Other Required Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases
• Demonstrated success in working collaboratively with other professional staff
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience coding statistical and/or machine learning models in R or Python
• Experience writing queries in SQL
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
• Ability to clear required background check

Desired Qualifications:  

• Experience in K12 education as a teacher or researcher
• Coursework specific to research design, evaluation, and statistical analysis
• Experience and training in data science
• Master’s degree in relevant field
• Excel VBA

Work Environment:

• This is a home-based position

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.  All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works.  It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. 

K12 is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age,, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.