Job Overview
The Senior Data Manager position combines the unique challenges of preparing student assessment results in data formats required by more than twenty state level clients, ensuring the data integrity and quality control of those results, adhering to individual client delivery schedules, and preparing numerous stakeholder aggregate reports in accord with client specifications. The role provides a unique opportunity to meld technical skills (SAS and Python) with project management insight and Cambium-client collaboration through meetings, presentations, data documentation and reporting specifications. The Senior Data Manager fosters collaboration across technical, reporting, and project management teams at Cambium and shepherds clients’ understanding of our work from the time a test is administered to a student until results at the individual and aggregate level are available for student, parent, teacher and state level stakeholder review. The individual fulfilling this role has responsibility for working with internal (CAI) and external (client specific) participants in the critical work of student assessment.
Job Responsibilities
Develops specifications for data layouts, including data capture and input;
Create, manage and maintain detailed data schedules to meet client-specific deliverables
Validates and monitors input to ensure consistency, quality, and integrity of data.
Troubleshoots and runs a variety of scheduled reports.
Provides technical assistance and training to staff personnel
Supervises or oversees the work of programming and/or staff and/or student employees.
Maintains knowledge with respect to relevant programming languages, systems, data environments.
Managing proper and up-to-date documentation on client deliverables, and organizational processes
Communicates excellently, both orally and in writing.
May conduct presentations.
Job Requirements
5 years of data-relevant experience; including:
Experience in running large data sets exhibiting different scenarios and use cases
Ability to analyze, interpret and organize large amounts of data
Resolving data input, storage and/or retrieval problems and to design solutions and modifications.
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics or related
Experience with SAS and Python
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
Ability to manage assigned staff
Excellent time management skills and the ability to work towards meeting multiple deadlines simultaneously
Thorough understanding of management and data administration duties such as collection, analysis, and distribution
Why Work With Us?
When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.
Our systems are highly scaled and mission critical serving over a third of all students in grades 3-8 in the United States.
Our web applications are highly interactive and universally accessible.
Our machine scoring methods are driven by artificial intelligence allowing computers to perform such complex operations as grading essays with more accuracy than humans.
Our processes use intensive algorithmic computing allowing a customized experience for each student as the exam adapts real-time based upon answers given.
In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com
An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.