Position Summary

New Visions works to make the public education system in New York City a place where students from every background can graduate high school and successfully transition into their post-secondary future. The School Systems and Data Analytics Department aims to accomplish this mission by creating a comprehensive data management ecosystem to support school and district users in making decisions that maximize their students’ likelihood of graduating and succeeding beyond high school. We currently support over 180,000 students in nearly 350 schools, working with teachers and administrators help students progress towards graduation and beyond into post-secondary success.

The School Systems and Data Analytics department is at the core of supporting New Visions staff and schools in translating data into action. Multiple times per day, we manage the processing of data from multiple internal and external source systems into New Visions databases and into live tools, providing staff with actionable, timely, and accessible information to make data-informed decisions.

We are looking for a thoughtful Data Manager to join our growing Data Analytics team and to help fundamentally shape our product. Your work will help massive numbers of students, teachers, and parents across New York and beyond.
Who You Are

You are excited about public service and the prospect of solving problems that are challenging and affect urban schools everywhere.

You are detail oriented and enjoy organizing data in a way that will facilitate the work of team members.

You care about creating a data model that is optimized for performance and quality

You enjoy working with analysts, designers and product managers to determine the best way to grow our data model to accommodate new features and tools.

You love working in teams to solve complex challenges. You thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
What You’ll Do

You will work with software developers, data analysts and product managers to maintain the New Visions Data Model and to add tables and pipeline elements when called for by new features and tools. You’ll look for ways to streamline data to decrease processing time and simplify our model. You’ll incorporate new data sources thoughtfully. You’ll create documentation to support further development of the model. Perhaps most importantly, you’ll script quality assurance procedures to ensure that the processed data reflected in our tools is an accurate reflection of the raw data sources.
Required Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Knowledge of R and SQL required
• 2+ years experience working in data management, data analytics, or a related field
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and organizational skills
• Close attention to details
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Demonstrated persistence and independence in learning technical subject matter, and in solving technical problems.

Desired Knowledge and Skills

• Python or other scripting languages
• Knowledge of Git desired
• Experience with AWS and MongoDB desired
• Knowledge of public education data in New York State

New Visions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.