Senior Specialist, Insights and Analytics
About StriveTogether
StriveTogether is a national movement with a clear purpose: helping every child succeed in school and in life from cradle to career, regardless of race, ethnicity, zip code or circumstance. Our Cradle to Career Network is made up of 70 communities across the country, together reaching 14 million youth. StriveTogether provides coaching, resources and rigorous approaches to transform the systems of opportunity in these communities. Our current strategic plan has a bold vision: to put 4 million more young people on a path to economic mobility by 2030.
The StriveTogether team is passionate, talented and dedicated to achieving our mission. We seek and value all kinds of diversity and work hard to eliminate inequities in ourselves, our organization and our communities. We support each other to try new things, have tough conversations and push for change. As we work, we share learning and progress, use data to make decisions and celebrate our wins
About you
You are a champion of race equity, committed to ensuring all children succeed regardless of race, socioeconomic status or zip code. You are dedicated to bringing voice through data and are known to prefer influencing through others and using data to inform decision makers. You enjoy collaborating but are highly successful working independently. You thrive solving complicated problems using technology and analysis. You have a strong eye for detail and are adept at setting up systems and processes to run efficient analysis.
At StriveTogether, we’re dedicated to creating equitable pathways to economic mobility. To be successful in this role, you must understand the challenges faced by marginalized communities — including but not limited to barriers of race, ethnicity, class, ability, immigration status, gender and their intersections.
About the position
Reporting to the Vice President, Insights and Analytics, the Specialist, Insights and Analytics will work with team members across departments to understand needs, independently deliver impactful solutions, and extract insights from data. The Insights and Analytics team works to conduct analyses and develop strategies that move initiatives to action, facilitate conversations around moving communities and initiatives forward, and build technological solutions that solve access and dissemination hurdles.
Responsibilities and duties
Making meaning of data
- Plan and execute data analysis and research leading to actionable insights for Executive Team, internal departments, external partners, and national audience for more informed decision-making. For typical engagements:
- Develop and present content for internal team members, investors, network partners, national education and adjacent sector leaders to highlight needs, opportunities, and progress toward social outcome goals. Functions include extracting, cleaning, maintaining quality, aggregating, and visualizing data and then documenting processes
- Prepare high-impact materials, PowerPoint presentations, and memos to communicate key findings
- Develop analytical tools and data visualizations to support network and national partners and conduct analyses to advance strategies on key education priorities
- Engage in new, complex challenges with team and various stakeholders such as connecting local partnership education data with national education data or understanding the return on investment of various initiatives
- Work extensively in analysis tools, e.g., STATA, SQL, SAS, R, Python, etc. Work in Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, AMCharts, Alteryx, and/or ArcGIS.
Field learning support
- Support the Cradle to Career Network in identifying key population variables and data sources to understand local community needs and progress over time
- Provide consultation and strategic assistance to partners on matters of data analytics, building their capability to use data for continuous improvement
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications and skills
- 4+ years developing tools and processes to streamline analyses and extracting insights from data; public education experience is a plus
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI, is required; Experience with Alteryx, ArcGIS, Tableau, Salesforce, and coding languages (Python, SQL, SAS, and/or R) is preferred
- High attention to detail and strong project management skills
- Ability to incorporate feedback from a team, share feedback with a team, and collaborate to improve a team’s work product
- Demonstrated history of meeting deadlines while balancing competing priorities across multiple projects
- Strong data communication, report writing and presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information to a wide variety of audiences
- Applicants must have gone through the PK-12 years in the U.S. education system or have extensive experience working in a school district
- Insatiable desire to transform student achievement across the United States and the belief that education can be an equalizer
- Up to 15%travel required
Position details
This is an exempt position with a salary range of $68,000 - $102,000 (min-max). StriveTogether offers competitive salary and benefits, commensurate with experience and skills. This role is preferred as a hybrid role based in Cincinnati, OH: however, open to remote within the US for the right candidate.
Benefits, perks and flexibility
Time Away
- Sick, vacation, personal, floating holiday/wellness day, bereavement, jury duty
- 11 paid company holidays and a paid winter break the last week of December
- Paid parental leave
- Paid sabbatical after seven years of employment
- Paid time off to vote
- Caregiver time off
Benefits
- Medical and dental plans
- 100% paid vision, short-term and long-term disability and basic life insurance.
- $2,500 annual HSA contribution for users of high-deductible health care plans
- Cellphone and internet stipend
- Competitive retirement plan with automatic employer contribution and match
- Professional development
- Employee Assistance Program
Perks
- Remote work opportunities available
- Birthday gift card
- DeskPass access (community desk and meeting room options for remote team members)
- Company credit card for internal expenses
- Home office stipend (up to $250 per year).
Perks at our Cincinnati headquarters
- Employer paid parking
- Hybrid work model with two work-from-home days each week
- Rooftop deck
- Snacks and beverages
- Dog-friendly office
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StriveTogether provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, domestic partnership status, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
StriveTogether provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, domestic partnership status, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.