Position Title: Director, Data, Analytics, & Insights, Achieve Atlanta
Position Reporting Structure: Reports to the Executive Director
Overview: Achieve Atlanta’s vision is that all students educated in Atlanta Public Schools (APS) will complete post-secondary education and obtain the full benefits that a higher education provides. To reach our vision, Achieve Atlanta is working to harness a broad array of community resources to dramatically increase the number of Atlanta Public School students graduating from a post-secondary institution. Currently, Achieve Atlanta is:
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Partnering with college advising providers with proven results to serve APS students while they are in high school;
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Establishing strategic formal relationships with post-secondary institutions that can successfully serve APS graduates, especially 1st generation and low-income students;
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Developing a plan to mobilize broad community support and further collaborate with effective initiatives that further college access and persistence in Atlanta.
Through these actions, Achieve Atlanta will help address the financial and social barriers students face in accessing and persisting through post-secondary education and help to:
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Enhance individual students’ ability to realize their own potential, especially for students traditionally underrepresented in post-secondary education;
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Support APS in continuing to institutionalize a culture that raises awareness of and encourages the pursuit of post-secondary education; and
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Create an ecosystem in Atlanta and with partner institutions that ensures college access and persistence for all students.
Ultimately, Achieve Atlanta will be part of a system that transforms the lives of students, their families, and the city of Atlanta by creating a highly educated and skilled population and, as a result, address the lack of economic upward mobility and income inequality in our city. Achieve Atlanta has set a goal to double the number of APS graduates completing a post-secondary degree or credential by 2025.
Organizational Culture:
Achieve Atlanta is a values-driven organization and each team member grounds his/her work in the following core values:
Unwavering Belief: Belief in what’s possible–for our students and the school community that surrounds them– is the inspiration and fuel for everything we do.
Champion for Students: Our belief is backed by action. We never give up on students, and accept the charge to do whatever it takes to remove the barriers they face.
Expectation of Excellence: We expect excellence…from ourselves and from our community of stakeholders. This expectation shapes our ambition and sets our standard for execution day in and day out.
Intentional Collaboration: We don’t presume to have all the answers. We’re deliberate in our effort to tap the experience and knowledge of others as we work toward sustainable
change.
Continuous Innovation: We understand to get different results we have to try new things. It’s important we always remain driven, humble, and nimble enough to pursue promising ideas.
Position Overview: The Director, Data, Analytics, & Insights, will help shape both how the organization engages with data on all critical outcomes (programmatic, financial, operational) and how it engages with the detailed data used to monitor and support Achieve Atlanta partner organizations. Specifically, the Director will set the vision for how data on our most fundamental measures of success are delivered internally and to external stakeholders, and will execute on that vision by designing and producing analyses, reports, and visualizations that drive organizational and program decisions. The Director will also collaborate with the organization’s technology providers to ensure we have the right systems in place to effectively use our data. This position is a unique opportunity for an individual with exceptional analytic and technical data skills, advanced communication and visualization skills, and a track record of success leading a data analytics and insights initiative. The ideal candidate will also excel at building relationships and managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.
The Director will be charged with accelerating our organizational learning to drive strategic and tactical decisions at every level of the organization. This may be done through a wide variety of different supports and structures: working with the senior team to define and evolve our organization learning agenda; leading internal and external research efforts; ensuring that data, analytics, and reporting are driving impact at every level of the organization; organizing our knowledge management work, and designing and facilitating partner impact reviews.
Primary Responsibilities
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Set the vision and direction for organizational reporting on data on all critical outcomes and on detailed data used to track outcome and output metrics;
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Manage and execute on the collection, cleaning, organizing and maintenance of data and ensure data integrity and quality
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Manage all data systems and internal evaluation tools, including building out and managing Salesforce platform as necessary
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Manage the design and production of reports and visualizations that:
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Share data on fundamental measures of organizational success;
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Present information in a way that maximizes insight and action for end users; and
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Leverage sophisticated technical approaches to enable dramatically enhanced team and partner productivity and success. Data visualization experience should include working with databases and database coding.
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Develop and utilize feedback channels to enhance and support these reports
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Design and evolve the core data analytics tools of the team, with a particular focus on those that enhance automation
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Partner with the organization’s technology providers to structure the way we collect, organize, store and manage data in multiple key areas
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Grow the skills and expertise of Achieve Atlanta team members in data visualization and reporting
Experience & Competencies: The Director, Data, Analytics, and Insights must be a positive, energetic, and proactive strategic thinker who is thoroughly committed to Achieve Atlanta’s strategy and mission. Additionally, experience within a start-up / entrepreneurial environment will be beneficial given Achieve Atlanta’s stage in development. The ideal candidate will have the following experience and competencies:
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6-8 years of experience organizing and managing robust data, conducting analysis, and displaying information in ways that drive organizational decisions
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Advanced data analysis skills using Excel, STATA, R, or similar to aggregate and analyze data to extract meaning and insights
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Advanced proficiency and comfort using PowerPoint to take complex information and make it easy for end users to interpret
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Experience with large-scale system implementations — including data gathering requirements and database field mappings, configuration, and maintenance
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Proficiency with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)
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Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including ability to summarize findings and determine the appropriate mode of communication depending on the situation and audience
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Ability to work in partnership with other organizations/partners to achieve shared objectives
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Demonstrated cultural competence, critical consciousness, and ability to work across lines of difference
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Exceptional critical thinking and problem solving skills
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Ability to set vision and direction in dynamic environment, leveraging input from multiple stakeholders
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Exceptional attention to detail
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Deeply invested in and inspired by Achieve Atlanta’s mission and core values
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Belief and understanding that that the work that we do has an extraordinary impact on the college success of APS students and alumni.
Education
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Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (with coursework focusing on data analysis)
Salary and Benefits:
Competitive salary and health, dental, and retirement benefits.
To Apply: Please email a cover letter and resume to careers@achieveatlanta.org with the email subject line title: “AA Dir., Data, Analytics, & Insights Application”
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