2024 - 2025 Manager Academic Data Assessment

The Opportunity

The Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will help the Chief Academic Officer Teaching and Learning Team the Regional Leadership Team of KIPP NC and school leaders understand and improve the outcomes and health of the KIPP NC network and its schools. Reporting to the Managing Director of Academic Operations the Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will steer the assessment strategy for KIPP NC and conduct critical analyses of KIPP NCs outcomes data generating actionable insights and recommendations for organizational leadership and KIPP NC school leaders. The Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will elevate data beyond the purely descriptive building a compelling narrative that will drive and improve impact across the KIPP NC network. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with exceptional analytical skills and the ability to tell a solutionsoriented story with data. They are motivated to build relationships and collaborate on crossfunctional teams to address missioncritical demands for data analysis that impact policy practice and student outcomes.

This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader to play a critical role in building and shaping a premier K12 charter management organization committed to supporting all our students to succeed in school and life.

Key Responsibilities

Team Collaboration

• Helps to build a strong cohesive team culture that reflects the core values of KIPP NC

• Works in collaboration with Teaching and Learning Team colleagues and schoolbased teams to provide exceptional guidance reports and resources to principals and schools

• With instructional team colleagues helps plan and implement professional development and data sessions for school principals Assistant Principals Directors of Operations and teachers

• Contributes to the annual planning process for KIPP NC by prioritizing assessment and insight work identifying buckets of continuing and new work and identifying interdependencies

• Leads goalsetting and analytical efforts to determine metrics related to KIPP NCs strategic plan

• Presents analytics and insights to all members of the KIPP NC community

• Partners with KIPP Foundation to develop and improve data goalsetting and analysis processes

• Engages in crossfunctional collaboration across the Regional Support Team to improve and enhance all data systems

Assessment Strategy

• Develops and leads KIPP NCs agenda around K12 assessment

• Strives towards 100% participation in all KIPP NC assessments

• Supports school level Assessment Points (virtually and in person) to implement a seamless and consistent assessment process that fosters productive testing environments for students

• Serves as KIPP NCs assessment accountability representative for the North Carolina Department Department of Public Instruction

• Ensure compliance with all North Carolina assessment regulations

• Understands internalizes and stays abreast of the states approach to measuring student proficiency and growth data; serves as KIPP NCs inhouse expert on accountability measures and school report card scores including how to predict proficiency accurately; develops and drives approach to educating the region on how those scores are calculated and ways to improve them

Data Analysis

• Builds out a systematic approach to response to academic data progress monitors its effectiveness and collaborates with leaders to drive results through this approach; uses our academic achievement data to determine which grades and subjects need prioritized support; 

• Conducts analysis on all assessment data including defining high priority research questions conducting the analysis and presenting the work in visually compelling and easy to understand ways

• Prepares and delivers regular reports to keep key stakeholders informed about student achievement including regional colleagues school leaders teachers the KIPP NC Board and key external partners

• Facilitates data meetings for Teaching and Learning colleagues senior leadership and other stakeholders to support strong data analysis and action cycles

• Develops systems for conducting analyzing and reporting out on schoolbased assessments (i.e. Interim Assessments and curriculumbased assessments)

• Intensively collaborates with Teaching and Learning Team  principals and teachers to help develop reporting strategy priorities and roadmaps  

• Leads efforts to create new reports including collecting stakeholder input developing and refining requirements partnering with IT on developing a plan to ensure data structure is aligned with the vision and building new reports in whatever system is recommended for KIPP NC

Data Systems

• Builds and maintains data systems for collecting and analyzing data (i.e. Tableau Illuminate mClass EVAAS)

• Creates and maintains KIPP NC academic dashboards in Tableau

• Collaborates with KIPP NC colleagues to determine dashboard strategy and metrics

KIPP North Carolina Leadership

• Participates in KIPP NC academic leadership team that oversees the strategy for all KIPP North Carolina programming

• Works with KIPP NC academic leadership to develop a vision and comprehensive longterm plan for the design of integrated scaffolded K12 schools

• Recommends to the KIPP NC Chief Academic Officer systemwide goals; monitors and reports back to the Chief Academic Officer on the progress toward achieving those goals

Qualifications :

Qualifications

KIPP NCs Manager of Academic Data & Assessment candidates will have the following:

• A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP NC and an unwavering belief in the potential of all our students

• An unwavering commitment to antiracism equity and inclusion

• A strong desire to collaborate with school leaders and Central Office teammates in service to a new KIPP region growing out of two exceptionally strong ones

• A love of data a B.A. in a related field and 5 years of related work experience

• Strong experience in quantitative analysis and quantitative data processing and management

• Expertise in writing SQL queries and other statistical software; proficiency in Tableau required

• Knowledge of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction assessment and accountability preferred

• Excellent attention to detail and constant focus on data quality; excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate research and analysis findings to a range of nonresearch audiences

• Outstanding leadership and management skills particularly as it relates to building teams working through others promoting collaboration managing conflict goal setting and holding people accountable

• An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program department or organization

• Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs

• Possess a deep commitment to both racial equity and improving the lives of kids from lowincome communities; experience working within predominantly Black Brown and/or lowincome communities

• Understanding and willingness to work in both rural and urban communities including exhibiting resourcefulness and willingness to travel up to five hours within North Carolina multiple days per week based on need

• Must live in North Carolina and be willing to travel up to four hours to support schools

Additional Information :

Additional Information

• This is a 12 month role fulltime ongoing role
• Willing to travel to our schools in Charlotte Durham and Gaston regularly
• Role primarily works from home so reliable internet is required
• KIPP laptop and other resources are provided

Total Rewards Compensation Benefits

Salary for this role is $81400 $91400 based on competency years of relevant experience and education.

• Healthcare (medical vision and dental) at no cost to individuals and deep discounts for dependents
• Enrollment in a retirement program with employer match
• Ongoing professional development opportunities
• Generous time off:
  • Paid Time Off  (17 days PTO & 6 days sick leave annually)
  • Time off for all major national holidays (including Fall Break Winter Break and Spring Break)

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime