Senior Analyst

• Position: Senior Analyst
• Type: Full-time, overtime-exempt employee position
• Location: Primarily remote, but must reside in the New York City area and be able to travel to New York City occasionally for in-person company meetings and to visit schools. School visits may be in any borough.
• Hours: On-call during business hours 4 days per week, logging ~30 hours per week.
• Compensation: $95,000–$105,000 per annum
• Timeline: We’re looking to fill this role ASAP, but we will spend the necessary time to find the best fit. A practice assignment requiring up to 3 hours will be given to assess the applicant’s presentation abilities and skill level in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Current New York City Department of Education employees or those whose employment has ended within the past 12 months are not eligible.
• Initial deadline to apply May 1, 2024
  

​Seeking you... if you:

• are highly analytical and excel at analyzing data and building and streamlining analytical models in spreadsheets
• love building and streamlining processes and making analytical tools accessible
• enjoy engaging with all types of people, thrive in a collaborative environment, and communicate proactively
• have experience working in or with K-12 schools or a strong interest in working in education
• are seasoned in working remotely and have strong project/self-management and communication practices needed for remote team structures
• are resourceful, proactive, and able to think outside the box to find creative solutions to problems
• have a strong attention to detail and pride yourself on completing your work with a high degree of accuracy
• have a strong desire to grow, learn, and progress in your career
• align with our mission to improve public education and equity in schools!

We’re searching for an agile, creative problem-solver with significant analytical experience and strong communication skills to help put those skills to use supporting public K-12 schools in New York City. We have built up a range of standardized and customized offerings with tools to provide those quickly and efficiently. Our primary need with this role is to streamline and improve those tools so that other members of our team (who are also skilled in working with spreadsheets) can more efficiently and accurately run standardized analyses and customize those analyses where needed.

You must be comfortable juggling multiple projects simultaneously, and be flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances. We frequently work under tight deadlines, so you must be organized, efficient, and able to carefully prioritize your work. The job has two main parts, with the primary responsibilities of:
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‍Updating, streamlining, and applying existing analytical models in spreadsheets. Building new models where needed.

• Work with, modify, and occasionally build new analytical models used to analyze data from schools, working primarily in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
• Clean data, run reports, error check results, troubleshoot problems, and support team members in customizing analyses for their schools’ particular needs
• Document updates and processes to enable other members of the team to run analyses efficiently and accurately.‍

Collaboration:

• Work directly and closely with senior data coaches by taking their requirements taken from school leaders and building analyses to meet their needs
• Directly train, coach, and support other team members on using analytical models
• Offer suggestions and ideas to improve both the process for creating existing offerings, improving the quality of existing offerings, and suggesting new offerings.
• Occasionally meet with school leaders alongside senior data coaches to understand needs and provide coaching and supportIn most cases, you will work from the direction of a District Public partner or senior data coach.
• In some cases, you will be working directly with school teams and must be comfortable working directly with school leaders and staff.
• You will also help District Public itself continuously improve, providing input on others’ projects, helping streamline and standardize our internal operations and approaches, and lending your content knowledge and expertise to improve how we work and what we deliver to clients.
• We are a growing business and this role includes opportunities for growth and advancement.

Skills that will enable you to thrive:

• You are quick to pick up new tech and tools and have advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and VBAwith an interest in deepening skills.
• You have an internal drive and strong organization and prioritization skills so you can exceed expectations with very limited supervision.
• You excel at being thorough and efficient in a 100% remote work environment with multiple projects at various stages.
• You are attentive and detail-oriented and have your own personal organizational habits and systems.
• You love collaborating with others, while working together to find creative solutions.
• You have an interest in and passion for K-12 public education.

Extra bonus if you have one or more of these skills or experiences:

• You have worked in or around K-12 public education.
• You have directly supported schools and school teams with data analysis and management.
• You have data visualization and/or graphic design skills.
• You have skills in Airtable, MS Access, MySQL, Python, Tableau, Google App scripting, R, or other database, data visualization, or analysis programs.
• You have a knowledge of improvement science or action research.
• You have worked in or around New York City public schools.
  

We offer:

• QSEHRA health insurance premium reimbursements with maximum allowable reimbursement rates
• Home office expense reimbursements up to $500/month
• 12 paid holidays 2 weeks paid time off in first year, 3 weeks paid time off in each year following.