Enterprise Data Analyst, School District of Philadelphia

Posted by on October 28, 2013

TITLE:    2307 –  ENTERPRISE DATA ANALYST

JOB SUMMARY
The Office of Strategic Analytics is responsible for driving continuous improvement in District, school, and student performance through the use of high-quality data, aligned accountability systems, strategic analytics, tactical data application, and cross-system data sharing.  The Enterprise Data Analyst manages and analyzes data from varied sources to better understand trends in District, school, and student performance as part of a strategic analytic agenda that ensures continuous improvement; assists with the development and dissemination of oral, written, and visual summaries of key findings and the provision of analytic support to promote the understanding and appropriate use of data; and plays a lead role in producing federal, state, and locally-mandated reports and creating data sets for internal and external partners and audiences.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
•     Assembles, cleans, manages, and analyzes large longitudinal data sets containing District, school, and student-level data (e.g., PSSA, Keystone Exams, DIBELS, DRA, Gates-MacGinitie, ACCESS, NOCTI, SAT, ACT, AP, IB).
•    Assists with the development of business rules for calculation of performance metrics, including decisions regarding sample determination, school/subgroup attribution, and calculation methodology.
•    Manages the documentation of business rules for all District-held data.
•    Manages the receipt of data sets from external agencies (e.g., Data Recognition Corporation, College Board, National Student Clearinghouse.)
•    Manages the identity resolution of data sets from external agencies, including deduplification, identity resolution and management of unresolved individual records.
•    Leads the production of federal, state, and locally-mandated reports.
•    Creates data sets for internal and external partners and audiences as necessary.
•    Manages the process for completing internal and external data requests.
•    Assists with the development and presentation of oral, written, and visual summaries of data analysis.
•    Assists with providing analytic support to various audiences to promote understanding and appropriate use, interpretation, and application of data.
•    Performs related duties as required

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Qualified applicants must have:
1a.    a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or a related field;
AND
1b. three years of full-time, paid, professional experience using SQL, two of which have included working with large longitudinal data sets.
OR
2a.    a master’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or a related field;
AND
2b.    two years of full-time, paid, professional experience using SQL, one which has included working with large longitudinal data sets.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Qualified applicants should email a current resume and cover letter detailing the extent to which they meet the above criteria to:    Office of Human Resources
Email: employment@philasd.org

Documents must be received by close of business Tuesday, October 29, 2013.

SELECTION PROCESS
Selected candidates will participate in an interview process.  Please note that not all qualified candidates may be selected for an interview.  The selected candidate must have no anecdotal record on file and have not been subject to any disciplinary action within the past eighteen (18) months, and have an excellent record of attendance and punctuality during the last three (3) years (defined as no more than eighteen (18) occasions of lateness or absence for personal illness in the last three years (3) years with the exception of one extended long-term absence).

10/1/13
Repost 10/21/13