Position Type:
Central Office Administration

Date Posted:
8/25/2021

Location:
Superintendents Office

School/Location
Superintendent's Office
Executive Director of Accountability and Innovation
12-month Non-union Position

Job ID: 4431

Job Description
Contingent upon funding

Designs, implements, maintains and serves as the primary contact for reporting functions for the Deputy Superintendent of Academics. Leads all reporting activities for the department and works closely with senior management to provide a comprehensive view system analytics at Providence Public School District. The Executive Director of Accountability and innovation identifies and develops strategic measures of factors leading to positive outcomes in school achievement and family engagement, completes operational and analytic efforts to expand, and enhances data-informed decision making around achievement goals and resource deployment. As well, the role is responsible for designing and implementing systems reporting and data visualizations to better understand, communicate and predict district achievement; volunteer recruitment and retention; and donor acquisition, retention, and upgrade patterns.

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Roles & Responsibilities

Reporting to the Deputy Superintendent of Academics, this position will also work closely with the Network team, including the Network Superintendents; Executive Directors; and Data Managers and School Principals to understand existing data structures and recommend strategies for enhanced reporting and analysis.
Essential Functions

• Creates a best practice reporting environment that communicates shared report definitions, observes consistency of report formatting/branding, and regularly distributes reports to defined audiences at established frequencies.Develops longitudinal reporting around Turnaround Action Plan cross-cutting academic initiatives to measure PPSD's current achievement and aspirant goals against established historical performance. Completes analysis of growth, engagement, and achievement data. Shares research to inform decision making, including compilations and analyses of market research data, and information about aspirational peer public institutions. Synthesizes results for use by the Superintendent, and District Leaders to support strategic and tactical decision-making, providing notations of performance deviations and anomalies.Provides research and analytical expertise to inform marketing efforts in developing not only effective communication and publication strategies, but also timing and messages to optimize interactions with PPSD families and community. Serves as point person for outside marketing firms and vendor analytical teams on behalf of the Academics division to supply and receive databases, and to analyze data.Serves as a project manager for School Redesign and Extended Learning projects. Actively engages with the offices of the School Leadership Network, Family and Community Engagement, Rhode Island Department of Education and Philanthropic Partners to understand informational needs and deliver timely reports focusing on strategic outcomes. Lends expertise to internal teams and task forces.Completes the Redesign and Comprehensive Schools Initiative reports and works with RIDE's offices and others to prepare institutional survey responses and reports, including, but not limited to, RICAS, STAR, ACCESS, SurveyWorks etc. Responds to ad-hoc requests from internal and external customers.Provides predictive modeling and statistical analysis to a wide range of data sets to enable the Academics Department to better understand the stakeholder's data and improve outreach. Coordinates research efforts from the various departments within PPSD to best understand learning trends and provide consistent and accurate information to the Executive Cabinet, Rhode Island Department of Education and internal stakeholders.Leverages existing systems and processes to maximize data mining and analysis and to allow for proactive strategic planning. Uses Tableau, Google Analytics, and any other data analysis tools to enhance PPSD's understanding of behavioral data associated with online platforms, including achievement, attendance, and discipline. Provides data strategy, analysis, and reporting to management based on trends and forecast models.

Salary Rate Range
$121,485 - $136,360

Qualifications

• Master's degree is required, preferably in education administration, plus advanced coursework in data analytics.Five to eight years of relevant reporting management experience preferably in a public education turnaround district or complex non-profit setting.Demonstrable planning, administrative, teamwork, and organizational skills.Proven decision-making, writing, research, and analytical skills.Ability to stay abreast of trends, new systems, tools and features and to evaluate for potential use in PPSD's Academics division.

A strong candidate ought to exhibit these experiences and competencies:

• Solid understanding of computerized data management programs and their application to the achievement of fundraising and constituent engagement goals. Expertise using fundraising metrics for projections, leveraging, modeling, and other analyses. Experience with visualization/analysis software as well as MS Office, Word, Excel, and Google required.Extensive research background including database design, manipulation, and statistical analysis. Broad knowledge of community engagement strategies and predictive modeling methods. Familiarity with content management systems, email applications, enterprise systems, such as Tableau, computer applications for data analysis, preferably in public education. Ability to integrate multiple systems, data sets, query databases, and perform statistical analysis; linking multiple/distinctive data sets to discover new insights within PPSDs central database.Excellent organization skills, with a demonstrated ability to prioritize, manage multiple demands, work under pressure, and meet deadlines with accuracy, speed, independent judgment, and minimal supervision.Superlative diplomatic and communication skills, including an ability to work and communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of divisional and institutional colleagues, within an environment that values diversity as defined by, race, color, religion, age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.You must complete the new hire compliance training prior to your first day of employmentBilingual PreferredSelected candidate will be required to pass a pre-employment criminal history background check. Selected candidates cannot begin work until passing their background check.