Student Information Systems Analyst

2 weeks ago

Philadelphia, United States Kipp Full time
Company Description

About Us

KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools in educationally underserved communities. Over 120,000 students attend one of the 275 KIPP schools that operate in 27 regions across the United States. KIPP Philadelphia Schools Public Schools (KPPS) is a part of the national KIPP network and currently leads eight schools serving approximately 3,200 students in North and West Philadelphia.

Our Mission

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students to pursue the paths they choose-college, career, and beyond-so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Life at KPPS

We know that talented, committed, culturally competent teachers and leaders have the power to amplify our children's potential by creating a school experience that affirms, values, and challenges them each day. We seek to create a professional environment full of joy, candor, care and community where excellent educators can make a long-term home. Educators at KIPP -
  • Are committed to anti-racism, equity and inclusion
  • Are part of a close-knit, diverse community of educators
  • Show up as themselves, inspiring our children to do the same
  • Access resources and affinity spaces that support well-being and sustainability
  • Lead with care and candor and take ownership of our children's learning and growth
  • Evolve their craft via 1:1 coaching and quality professional development
  • Have access to leadership pathway programming and opportunities to grow their career
  • Enjoy a competitive, equitable, transparent approach to compensation, comprehensive health benefits for employees and their families, a 403B matching program, and free access to financial advising services
Job Description

Position Overview

Reporting to the Managing Director of Academics, the Student Information Systems Analyst (SISA) is responsible for collaborating with a variety of stakeholders to ensure that our information systems and related educational technology platforms consistently meet a high standard of quality. The SISA also ensures that users at a variety of levels have the resources, knowledge and tools to navigate these systems effectively and fluidly. The SISA will focus on functions and systems linked to grading, credits, report cards, graduation plans and transcripts in a significant way.

Key Responsibilities

Data Systems & Data Policy Management
  • Work closely with the Regional Managing Director of Operations to co-manage our student information systems (SIS, currently PowerSchool), with a focus on functions related to grade books, credits, graduation plans, report cards and transcripts.
  • Work closely with the MD of Academics to manage and maintain key student data and various educational technology systems that integrate with our student information system (including Mosaic, Clever, Illuminate, DeansList, etc.)
  • Collaborate with our contracted Tech Support team and vendors to ensure working connections between systems and to set-up/maintain automatic and ad-hoc account provisioning.
  • Audit information, correct errors, and build skill in users necessary to prevent future errors.
  • Establish and document the policies, practices, protocols, and systems developed for the SIS in order to ensure consistent and accurate practices going forward (e.g., for the treatment of grades and report cards).
Reporting
  • Coordinate with school teams and vendors to ensure that accurate, clear, and actionable report cards, data sheets, progress reports, and transcripts are produced and distributed in a timely manner.
  • Support the management, development, and/or enhancement of key staff facing reports that support effective monitoring of grades and graduation plan progress.
Analysis
  • Monitor key metrics relating to grades, GPAs, credit acquisition and graduation progress and report significant changes or trends
  • Synthesize key findings in clear language tailored to the intended audience.
  • Translate data into relevant insights and implications.
  • Supports colleagues to interpret findings.
Training & Support
  • Train school leaders, teachers, office managers, and other school staff to efficiently use SIS functions and reporting tools that relate to grade books & grading, credits, graduation plans, report cards, and transcripts
  • Observe, interview, establish periodic meetings, and/or build relationships with key constituent groups (leaders, teachers, operations staff, parents, and students) to understand their experience, gather feedback and prioritize enhancements to systems function, reports, and training.
  • Prioritize and manage relevant support requests and communicate best practices and solutions to common challenges across school sites.
  • Develop reference tools and other resources to support ongoing training and professional development.
Other Responsibilities
  • We live in unprecedented times and educational technologies are quickly expanding and have never been more central to our work as educators. For that reason, other responsibilities will become part of the role as they become necessary to meet the needs of our students, teachers and schools.
Skills & Qualifications
  • A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP Philadelphia and an unwavering belief in the potential of our students
  • A deep commitment to anti-racism, equity and inclusion
  • Demonstrated ability and desire to uphold our KPPS Core Values (Cultural Competence, Children First, Ownership, Community)
  • Flexible and able to multi-task within a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment, while also driving towards clarity, simplicity and solutions.
  • Incredibly strong attention to detail and quality
  • Required Skills/Experience:
    • Proficiency in using Excel and/or Google Sheets formulas and pivot tables to manipulate, compile and analyze data
    • Demonstrated ability to analyze trends in data and communicate them clearly and meaningfully to a variety of stakeholders
  • Preferred Skills/Experience (if candidates do not already possess these skills/experiences, they should be open to learning and growing in these areas quickly)
    • Experience using Tableau, Tableau Prep, or other Business Intelligence (BI) tools to visualize data
    • Experience managing and auditing data quality as a database administrator
    • Experience writing and running SQL queries to manipulate data
    • Experience working with educational technology platforms
    • Experience using Student Information Systems (such as Powerschool) and/or Customer Relationship Management software (such as Salesforce)
Qualifications

Who You Are:
  • You have a deep commitment and demonstrated ability and desire to uphold KIPP Philadelphia's Core Values (Cultural Competence, Children First, Ownership, Community)
  • You are someone who has experience with and enjoys wearing many hats related to data, from developing big picture data strategy, to analyzing data for a stakeholder presentation, to writing code to optimize data flow into a data warehouse or a dashboard data source.
  • You operate with cultural competence and a commitment to inclusion, anti-racism, and the eradication of anti-Blackness
  • You love data and are able to translate technical language to non-technical audiences
  • You are flexible and able to multi-task within a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment, while also driving towards clarity, simplicity and solutions.
  • You have the ability to motivate, inspire and hold others accountable
  • You are solutions-oriented and have an eagerness to adapt in order to solve problems
  • You posses an incredibly strong attention to detail and quality
Skills & Qualifications
  • Required Skills/Experience:
    • Minimum of 3 years of experience working in the education sector
    • High proficiency in using Excel and/or Google Sheets formulas and pivot tables to manipulate, compile and analyze data
    • Experience using Student Information Systems (such as Powerschool) and/or Customer Relationship Management software (such as Salesforce)
    • Demonstrated ability to analyze trends in data and communicate them clearly and meaningfully to a variety of stakeholders
    • Experience writing and running SQL queries to manipulate data
    • Experience working with educational technology platforms (ideally including PowerSchool SIS, Illuminate DnA, Clever and DeanList)
  • Strongly Preferred Skills/Experience:
    • Experience using Tableau, Tableau Prep, or other Business Intelligence (BI) tools to visualize data
    • Experience managing and auditing data quality as a database administrator
    • Experience automating processes and managing data with Python
Additional Information

Compensation
  • Salary is competitive with other Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) at a salary of $80K+ commensurate with experience.
  • All full-time team members at KPPS enjoy a comprehensive health benefits package (including vision and dental, a telehealth option, and flexible spending accounts) for themselves and their families as well as a 403B matching program for retirement savings.

Note To Applicants

KIPP Philadelphia Schools is an equal opportunity employer. Employees are selected on the basis of ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation, in accordance with federal and state law.

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