Senior Associate (District Performance Office)
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- 17 hours ago Post Date
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This is a full-time, Non-Represented role. The salary grade for this posting is 4028. The salary range is $86,025 to $111,454. Please note that the final salary will be determined by our Classification and Compensation team after reviewing the candidate's experience and considering our internal salary equity.
Title: Senior Associate, (District Performance)
Department: District Performance Office
Reports To: Director, District Performance
The School District of Philadelphia is the cornerstone provider of public education in Philadelphia. For forward-thinking administrators and educators, opportunities abound. The 130,000 students entrusted to the District arrive at school every day with an extraordinary range of needs and aspirations. We are committed to delivering on their right to an excellent public school education, and we are particularly focused on ensuring every student has access to exceptional educational opportunities. Equity is our mandate. Will you join us?
Job Summary:
The mission of the assigned office is to provide high quality educational services to students. True to the spirit of collective accountability and continuous improvement, the assigned office aims to establish a consistent and systematic way to assess progress against performance targets aligned to the Superintendent’s Action Plan 3.0. We achieve this mission by creating a suite of tools including but not limited to: School Progress Reports; management dashboards, web applications and tools and custom reports and analysis.
The Senior Associate supports the day-to-day operations of the assigned office, ensuring that various assignments are successfully executed. S/he will support any combination of the aforementioned workstreams and may occasionally function as a project manager as needed.
Essential Functions:
- Calculates and validates key performance indicators and provides auxiliary support in the production of annual progress reports (also referred to as “scorecards” or “report cards”).
- Calculates and validates key performance indicators and provides auxiliary support in the implementation of management dashboards for network leaders and central office chiefs.
- Provides auxiliary support in building a repository of standard or custom reports that facilitate the development, monitoring and evaluation of comprehensive plans.
- Performs ad hoc analysis and identifies key trends that assist various leaders with data-driven decisions or policy changes at improving overall performance.
- Applies data visualization principles to develop and present analysis in a clear, simplistic and impactful way.
- Disseminates longitudinal data sets via DPO homepage and Open Data Initiative.
- Provides auxiliary support in meeting federal, state and local reporting requirements.
- Fulfills internal and external data requests as needed.
- Provides auxiliary support in maintaining an efficient and effective process for the receipt, cleaning, storage and analysis of both internal and third-party data sets containing District-, school-, and student-level outcomes.
- Holds self and others accountable to high standard of quality assurance practices.
- Trains and oversees junior staff – namely interns and analysts – ensuring accurate and timely completion of deliverables that are “client-ready.”
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.
○ Six years of full-time, paid, professional experience, 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.
○ Four years of full-time, paid, professional experience, one of which has included working with large longitudinal data sets.
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○ Any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to by acceptable by the Office of Talent in collaboration with the assigned office.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Demonstrated knowledge of:
o descriptive and inferential statistics.
o statistical software packages, such as SPSS, Stata, or Excel. o utilizing and merging large data sets.
o Powerpoint, InDesign and/or other design software
Demonstrated ability to:
○ work cross-functionally to ensure that all District-held data are accurate, complete, understandable, and accessible to relevant stakeholder groups.
○ work with a sense of urgency.
○ exhibit tactfulness and respect towards all colleagues.
○ be optimistic and entrepreneurial.
○ solve problems, anticipate issues and troubleshoots 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.
○ establish and maintain effective working relationships.
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.
