Dashboard Developer and Data Coach
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- Apr 16, 2025 Post Date
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Title: Dashboard Developer and Data Coach
Department: District Performance Office
Reports To: Director, District Performance Office For forward-thinking administrators and educators, opportunities abound in the School District of Philadelphia. The School District of Philadelphia is committed to transforming the education opportunities it offers the city's more than 203,000 school-aged children. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools, principals and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision. Will you join us?
Job Summary Develops, in collaboration with District leaders, the design and requirements for internal- and external-facing dashboards to support performance management and progress monitoring while supporting the overall strategy and implementation of dashboard-related projects for the District. Oversees, coordinates, monitors, and provides effective planning and support for dashboard projects which impact both instructional and operational areas. Develops District, regional, and school-level dashboard views. Fosters efficient and effective use of the District’s dashboard software by stakeholders to support data-driven decision making. Provides related training and coaching, including data literacy for the District’s dashboard software elements to business users. Builds capacity in support of District’s dashboard software, data-driven initiatives, and data-informed interventions through co-planning and collaboration with central office personnel, District instructional leaders, and Information Technology.
Essential Functions
- Using the District’s dashboarding software, develops effective performance dashboards and reporting tools that are aligned with gathered stakeholder and business user requirements.
- Coordinates with the District’s dashboard software vendor to ensure timely and efficient delivery of dashboard views to District stakeholders.
- Develops engaging, clear, and actionable data visualizations using the District’s dashboarding to support data-driven decision-making aligned with District leadership’s priorities.
- Gathers, documents and validates requirements from stakeholders and business users as they relate to data reporting, visualizations and resultant user training and coaching.
- Surveys stakeholders’ existing reporting tools and systems to determine dashboard needs and identify gaps.
- Coordinates intake, processing, and preparation of raw data files for use by developers and departmental staff.
- Cleans, analyzes, and manipulates large data sets from source systems to conduct exploratory and predictive analyses, identify relationships, patterns, trends, and key performance indicators, and inform data modeling and visualizations.
- Guides and conducts quality assurance testing procedures in areas of assigned focus and responsibility, including testing of visualizations and analyses of large data sets.
- Maintains business rules and data dictionaries, data models, data flow diagrams, and other documentation in areas of assigned focus and responsibility.
- Tracks and prioritizes requests with input from District leadership to ensure consistent delivery of District’s dashboard software and reports across varied data views, reporting levels, and stakeholder groups.
- Participates in the design and delivery of District’s dashboard software related stakeholder and business user training and coaching, with focus on key education performance indicators (e.g. attendance, reading levels, graduation rates, post-secondary enrollment).
- Develops materials required for District’s dashboard software stakeholder and business user engagement, such as user guides and presentations.
- Evaluates effectiveness of District’s dashboard software and related reports; identifies opportunities for improvements, and modifies and/or recommends changes in response to annual evaluation of the District’s dashboard software, including user survey.
- Participates in the evaluation of the District’s dashboard software vendor’s performance.
- In collaboration with Information Technology, ensures the dashboard and reporting server processes continue to run and operate in the most efficient manner possible through monitoring of usage reports, error logs, and user feedback.
- Identifies and implements opportunities to automate processes required to maintain platform performance and availability.
- Participates in a collaborative work environment, with stakeholders, business users and Information Technology.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in economics, statistics, education policy, mathematics, quantitative analytics, engineering, computer science, management information systems, or a related field.
- Five years of full-time, paid, professional experience, at least two of which have included working with large longitudinal data sets.
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- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in economics, statistics, education policy, mathematics, quantitative analytics, engineering, computer science, management information systems, or a related field.
- Three years of full-time, paid, professional experience, at least two of which have included working with large longitudinal data sets.
OR
- Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Talent in collaboration with the District Performance Office.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Demonstrated knowledge of:
- BI software and dashboarding tools (e.g. Qlik, Tableau).
- JavaScript and Python strongly desired.
- Statistical software packages, such as Stata, R, or SPSS.
- Effective data visualizations and reporting.
- SQL and/or other related programming.
- Project management software (e.g., Asana, Microsoft Project) preferred.
- Public education (K-12, early learning, and alternative programs) and education data sources (e.g. PA Department of Education, National Student Clearinghouse, College Board).
- Needs of District and school leaders.
- Adult learning theories, technologies, and coaching/mentoring models.
Demonstrated ability to:
- Clean, merge, analyze and report on large and complex data sets.
- Develop effective data visualizations and dashboards in a professional context.
- Use of SQL in a professional context including analytic functions.
- Conduct descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Translate data across the various data systems available to district and school leaders.
- Design, conduct and manage professional development for stakeholders and business users in various aspects of data literacy and reporting.
- Assess the needs of stakeholders to effectively drive development of reports, dashboards, and data literacy training.
- Build relationships with stakeholders and business users and help them feel comfortable with and understand their data.
- Work with a sense of urgency.
- Be optimistic and entrepreneurial.
- Solve problems, anticipate issues and troubleshoot with good judgment and critical thinking.
- Be detail-oriented and hold self and others accountable to a high standard of quality assurance.
- Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with both internal and external partners, stakeholders, and business users.
Disclaimer The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Nondiscrimination The School District of Philadelphia provides to all persons equal access to all categories of employment in this District, regardless of race, color, age, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin or handicap/disability, gender identity, or genetic information. Please refer to Board Policy 104 for further information regarding the District's commitment to Nondiscrimination in Employment Practices.
