This is a full-time position located from a remote office anywhere in the country, with national travel expected about once a quarter in accordance with public health guidelines.

What You’ll Do:

We're looking for two data analytics and systems analysts, internally called Partnership Data Leads, to support the critical data and systems for our nationwide Partnership Team that works to ensure equitable access to great instruction for all students. These new roles will play a critical part in building and managing reports, dashboards, and systems to ensure partnership and organizational leaders have the tools they need to make effective data-driven decisions.

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you’re a curious, big-hearted individual who is excited about applying their analytical skills to support our team in working shoulder to shoulder with educators. In addition to a strong technical background, you should have experience playing a key role in large-scale projects and data storytelling and visualization. This role reports to the Director of Partnership Data and is a part of the Data Strategy & Solutions team.

Responsibilities:

Data Analysis & Reporting (60%)

• Effectively manipulate and analyze large data sets, including completing time-series, segmentation, and impact analyses 
• Design, create, and manage scalable reports, dashboards, and data visualizations for ongoing and recurring analyses to support strategic decisions; proactively seek feedback from teammates and end users to continually improve products 
• Support implementation of a central access point for most relevant data and ensure ease of use and functionality; monitor automated key metrics and proactively report significant changes or trends
• Translate data into relevant insights and implications; support stakeholders on interpreting findings including effectively communicating to audiences with various data literacy skills 
• Create summary data presentation materials to interpret, capture, and convey key trends and insights to help stakeholders leverage data in decision making
• Efficiently produce ad hoc analyses and simple data structures for various internal and external stakeholders

Data Strategy & Stakeholder Relationships (30%)

• Collaborate with broader Data Strategy & Solutions team to develop new tools/modes of data sharing and visualization and new ways to gain insight from data to best communicate needs, trends, opportunities, and impact
• Collaborate with various stakeholders on key metric identification and ensure adequate collection of data and feasibility of analysis; suggest new lines of analysis and work with colleagues to investigate them
• Engage partnership team to understand data use cases and current gaps; work with colleagues to identify opportunities to narrow those gaps 
• Provide hands-on training, support, and guidance to non-technical audiences, including how to use reports and systems
• Build and maintain positive relationships with various internal stakeholders to encourage questions and surface opportunities to provide support
• Develop a solid understanding of partnership team services and different perspectives across the partnership team to ensure data work is contextually grounded

Data Management (10%)

• Develop and maintain documentation of business rules, best practices, and operational processes needed to ensure data systems are accurate in conjunction with other Data Strategy & Solutions and Partnership Operation team members
• Enhance data quality and infrastructure, including collaborating with other Data Strategy & Solutions team members to develop and maintain data warehouse and other systems
• Maintain and troubleshoot the integrity of data linkages between data source systems and data warehouse

Candidate Qualifications and Traits:

• Curiosity about education required; background in education preferred 
• At least 2-3 years of experience in playing a key role in large-scale projects, including defining roadmaps and delivering critical work
• At least 4-6 years of experience with the following, although the right candidate can build new technical skills on the job: 
  • Microsoft Office and/or Google Workspace, especially advanced use of Excel and/or Google Sheets 
  • Analyzing large data sets to derive insights and working with relational databases 
  • Data visualization, dashboard creation, and/or business intelligence tools (ex: Tableau, Looker) 
  • Salesforce reports, dashboards, and SOQL strongly preferred
  • Programming in data analysis languages (ex: Python, R) preferred 
• Strong attention to detail and numeracy - you notice when Ns seem off and understand the implications of using a weighted average versus a straight average
• Strong data storytelling and visualization skills, including the ability to communicate technical content effectively with non-technical audiences
• Business intuition and judgment to ask the right questions, identify the most meaningful metrics, and synthesize information into tangible insights
• Self-starter with a high degree of motivation to learn and the ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities in a dynamic environment

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet about 60% of job criteria, women and other marginalized groups tend to apply only when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but you’re not sure that you check every box, we still want to hear from you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Hiring

At Instruction Partners, we know that difference enhances, transforms and strengthens our ability to serve students and schools. We invite and celebrate diversity of all perspectives, and we are deeply committed to ensuring equitable access and voice throughout our organization. Instruction Partners is proudly an equal opportunity workplace, and we value the inclusion of persons who have experienced poverty and/or for whom English is not their first language, and every race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, culture, ancestry, religion, national orientation, age, marital status or Veteran status. Join us, and let's work together to support great teaching and accelerate learning for every student.

Compensation:

The salary range for this role is $83,490 - 97,383 depending on experience. Detailed information about the organizational compensation philosophy is available upon application. Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options are available, as well as a generous vacation policy.

Our Vision

All students experience an excellent education that prepares them to contribute to their community, achieve economic security, and pursue their dreams.

Our Mission

We work shoulder to shoulder with educators to support great teaching and accelerate student learning. We focus on small systems, both districts and charters, and we work to ensure equitable access to great instruction for students in poverty, students of color, students learning English, and students with disabilities.

Our Core Values

Live Big-Hearted

We care deeply about ourselves, each other, our work, our partners, and the students we serve. We value the differences each other brings to the table because we know diversity of voice, thought, and experience makes us better. We operate joyfully and without ego, collectively focused on the broader good.

Choose Optimism

We believe that, with the right support, every student can succeed. We have the courage to lean into challenges and believe in the possibility of overcoming obstacles while holding a high bar for ourselves, partners, educators, and students. As we advance antiracist actions, our path may not be smooth, but we will walk it anyway because we have faith that the journey will make our team and our education system better.

Advance Antiracism

We create and uphold space for all team members, partners, and students so they are seen, valued, and heard. We lift the voices and experiences of Black, Latinx, Native, and Asian American and Pacific Islander people. We actively look for and confront patterns and systems that cause inequitable harm in order to create more equitable outcomes within our organization and with partners. We embrace diverse expressions of excellence that make our team more inclusive and effective.

Be Honest

We are open, authentic, and truthful with ourselves, teammates, and partners. Our trust in each other and our work gives us the courage to lean into difficult conversations, put forth new ideas, and give and receive feedback through the lens of equity of voice and experience. We understand the intense and gripping nature of our work, so we name our needs to ensure we are practicing self-care and love within our beloved community.

Get Practical

We believe support should be thoughtful by meeting people, schools, and systems where they are. We leverage the voices, strengths and stories of families, educators, partners and teammates to find answers, because we know there isn’t a “one size fits all” solution to the challenges of our education system. We always look for ways to work smart, focus on the most relevant impact, and reduce friction to make it easier to take action while grounding our progress in equity.

Keep Learning

We know and love that we don’t yet have all the answers because we are nerds for learning, even when it’s hard or ambiguous. We actively pursue new knowledge, research, and evidence so that we can leverage the latest insights and best practices in our work, then we put that knowledge to work in partnership with our team, our partners, and the students and communities we serve. We respect the learning that springs from our own anti racist journeys, and vow to activate our knowledge in pursuit of equity and excellence.

How We Work

Instruction Partners is a nonprofit organization dedicated to excellent instruction for all students, with a focus on students in poverty, students with disabilities, students learning English, and students of color. We keep one foot in practicality and the other in evidence-based best practices, because we believe that leveraging high-quality, grade-level content and providing just-in-time supports will accelerate learning for all students.

Instruction Partners spends time getting to know the needs of the educators, leaders, and systems it serves, allowing the team to custom-build service plans to support partner goals. Partnerships include on-the-ground support, and partnership team members serve as thought partners to the school systems they serve, a team educators can reach out to and feel supported by.

Instruction Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Instruction Partners complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.