Senior Data Quality Assurance Specialist

Senior Data Quality Assurance Specialist
College Possible - National

About College Possible:

As one of the largest and most successful college access and success organizations in the country, since 2000 College Possible has empowered more than 85,700 students on their path to earning a college degree. Its pioneering model matches eligible students with a near-peer coach and an evidence-based curriculum designed to help them overcome the most common barriers to getting into college and completing their degree - all at no cost to students or their families. Compared with their peers from similar backgrounds, College Possible students are 30% more likely to enroll in college the year after high school graduation, and three times more likely to earn a bachelor's degree.

College Possible is a proud AmeriCorps program. AmeriCorps is a federal agency that brings people together to tackle the country's most pressing challenges through national service. Our AmeriCorps members commit to a year of service as College Possible coaches in communities throughout the country. Many represent the identities of the students they serve, and each brings a commitment to social justice and closing the college equity divide.

Our near-peer coaching model has earned national recognition: the inaugural Evergreen National Education Award recognized our leadership in increasing access to and success in college for students from low-income backgrounds. It also earns top-of-field results: a Harvard study found that the program more than doubles a student's chance of enrolling in a four-year college, and our students are four times more likely to become college graduates than their low-income peers. College Possible has an annual operating budget of ~$33.5 million, more than 190 full-time employees and more than 245 AmeriCorps and VISTA service members. During the 2021-2022 school year, we reached an estimated 25,700 students nationwide.

Headquartered in Saint Paul, MN, College Possible operates regional sites in Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Omaha, NE; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; Saint Paul, MN; and Seattle, WA; as well as Catalyze partnerships in California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

College Possible is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and seeks to build a diverse workforce to create impact in partnership with the communities we serve. We welcome a diverse pool of qualified applicants. For each of its positions, College Possible is mindful about what best serves our students, and seeks to hire staff with relevant experience, skills and aptitude, and a commitment to the power of education.

Equal Opportunity Employer

College Possible is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or status with regard to public assistance. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals and conduct all possible activities in fully accessible settings. Alternative application formats are available upon request by contacting hr@collegepossible.org.

Your Role as Data Quality Assurance Specialist

The Data Quality Assurance Specialist works within the Research, Design & Innovation (RDI) group and supports other organizational functions to facilitate the creation, maintenance, and validation of our strategic data assets. This role leads the deployment of program reporting, established data quality practices, works with RDI leadership to implement business rules needed to verify and validate RDI enterprise data.

The Data Quality Assurance Specialist uses best practices and tools to analyze and measure data quality and develop action plans to ensure data reliability, completeness, and consistency. The Data Quality Specialist role will support the Data Governance framework in driving governance policies across all data within organizational functions and support compliance with required data standards.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop project plans, assign tasks, monitor progress, and report on project status to stakeholders.
• Partner closely with data creators, data stewards, data consumers, and IT to ensure our data is usable, timely, robust, trustworthy, and compliant. This role looks at the end-to-end data flow and lifecycle, from generation/acquisition to deployment and value, to establish enterprise and local data quality dimensions, rules, and indicators.
• Support enterprise and local data owners, data stewards and SME's for data standardization, cleansing, and data migration activities.
• Align Data Quality rules and policies to evolving data landscape and domains.
• Leverage data quality best practices to design and maintain policies, methodologies, guidelines around data quality, data profiling, data cleansing, including KPI/metrics definitions.
• Collaborate and support stakeholders responsible to implement relevant data quality rules and policies and ensure those rules and policies are implemented.
• Evaluate, implement, and manage governance tool(s) to track and manage data quality and compliance, support reconciliation and validation processes.
• Collaborate with organizational users to identify attributes that require data quality and corresponding organizational rules. Profile data, analyze user requirements, and translate & apply organizational rules to data quality rules.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives
• Manage and ensure the quality of data within Salesforce.
• Develop and implement data quality rules specific to Salesforce data.
• Collaborate with Salesforce administrators and users to maintain data integrity.
• Develop and implement frameworks for reporting on program outcomes.
• Analyze program data to assess the effectiveness and impact of initiatives.
• Prepare comprehensive outcome reports for stakeholders, highlighting key findings, trends, and areas for improvement.
• Provide strategic recommendations based on outcome analysis to enhance program performance and achieve organizational goals.

What You Bring

Education/Certifications/Licenses:

• Bachelor's degree required.

Related Work Experience:

• At least fours years of full-time relevant work experience required.

Computer/Software Skills:

• Experience with tools such as Informatica, Colibra, DeeQu, etc.
• Experience with SQL, Python, Spark, AWS
• Experience with Salesforce required.

Other Skills, Abilities and Requirements:

• Experience applying data quality principles to deliver high-quality data assets.
• Experience in data quality and management platforms, query and scripting languages.
• Experience in identifying and resolving data quality issues.
• Experience in performing root cause analysis on data quality issues.
• Experience with data integration and data profiling tools, automation of processes.
• Experience with data standards and ontologies is a plus

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to lift up to 15 pounds when needed.
• Office environment with limited travel
• Ability to stand and/or sit for a minimum of 7 hours a day

What We Offer

• In addition to joining a committed, diverse, values-based organization, we offer.
• An opportunity for you to have a tremendous impact both internally and in the broader country.
• A competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Excellent benefits including complete health, dental, life, short-term and long-term insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Encouraged sustainability through a generous paid time off program.
• Personalized professional development and growth opportunities.

To Join Our Growing College Possible Team

Please apply at: www.CollegePossible.org/careers Include a resume and cover letter.