Job Description

 About Springboard

Picture a child’s time as an orange. Their classroom experience is a wedge from which the education field is fixated on squeezing more juice. Springboard helps schools juice the rest of the orange, dramatically improving outcomes by harnessing the untapped potential in family engagement.

Low-income parents—often perceived as liabilities rather than as assets—have been left out of the teaching process. With limited access to learning time, their children make slow academic progress during the school year, and they experience chronic regressions over the summer.

Springboard Collaborative closes the literacy gap by closing the gap between home and school. We envision a world in which all children have the literacy skills to access life opportunities. Springboard offers summer, afterschool, and in-school programs that combine personalized instruction for Pre-K through 3rd graders, workshops training parents to teach reading at home, and professional development for teachers.

Since our founding in 2011, Springboard has scaled from 40 students to over 8,000. Our programs consistently deliver best-in-class results, showcased in these interactive infographics. Weekly parent training workshops average 90%+ attendance and were featured in the New York Times, PBS, and Forbes. We are out ahead of the field proving a simple but powerful truth: parents’ love for their children is the single greatest and most underutilized natural resource in education.

About the opportunity

Springboard Collaborative invites talented and passionate candidates to apply for the position of Data & Analytics Associate. The Data & Analytics Associate will be responsible for quantitative data collection, analysis, and reporting. A successful candidate will be analytical, communicative, persistent, team-oriented, and will have attention to detail.

The Data & Analytics Associate will report to the Senior Director of Innovation and Evaluation and work as part of the Impact Strategy team at Springboard. This is a great opportunity to support an entrepreneurial team in maximizing the impact of a rapidly growing organization.

We’re looking for candidates with:

• Analytical mindset – the ability to structure and process qualitative or quantitative data, including the specific ability to analyze both qualitative and quantitative data, and draw insightful conclusions from it. Exhibits a probing mind and achieves penetrating insights.
• Strong communication skills – speaks and writes clearly and articulately, in ways that make analytical or technical information clear to those without a technical background while remaining accurate to those who do. Maintains this standard in all forms of written communication, including e-mail.
• Team orientation – reaches out to peers and cooperates with managers to establish an overall collaborative working relationship.
• Attention to detail – does not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project
• Persistence – demonstrates tenacity and willingness to go the distance to get something done

Responsibilities:

Program data reporting

• Manage program impact report creation and review processes
• Manage external data sharing with program partners (communication, and folders in Dropbox)
• Review and approve grant application metrics to ensure accurate and timely reporting
• Report on national quantitative and/or qualitative data for each offering
  Generate custom reports for funders as needed for funding agreements

Data analysis and request fulfillment

• Manage Springboard survey design: write and revise program surveys; conduct survey monitoring, analysis, reporting and improvement as needed
• Perform standard statistical methods, as appropriate, to allow us to understand the significance of our quantitative data
• Fulfill internal data requests, including for innovation and continuous improvement projects
• Fulfill external data requests, including for current and prospective funders and program partners
• When possible, build re-usable reports & dashboards in response to data requests
• Use student assessment data, both to analyze program results and to help improve our assessment tools

Data accuracy and quality control

• Monitor and maintain the accuracy of all program summary statistics (roll ups) at the site, district, contract, city, and national level
• Identify roadblocks and opportunities to improve the quality and fidelity of data collection & analysis, communicate them, and implement changes
• Liaise between Partnerships and Systems team to improve and maintain data collection processes
• Ascertain and execute on data-related and training-related areas of need for Partnerships and Partner Success team
• Maintain and improve early warning system/process to identify and fix major data issues (missing data, inaccurate data)
• Update and create data trainings and guides to support seasonal staff as needed

While this description is meant to provide a comprehensive overview of the responsibilities of the Data & Analytics Associate, we are seeking candidates who demonstrate flexibility and can adapt to evolving needs in an entrepreneurial environment.

Skills, qualifications, and characteristics:

• Proficiency in basic computer applications (Word, Excel, Google Suite) and ability to learn new systems

• Minimum of a B.A./B.S.
• Master’s degree in education policy, social sciences, data and analytics, or research methods, or something similar is preferred
• Experience with analyzing data in education and/or social sciences required
• Experience with STATA is preferred, but not required
• Spanish language proficiency (ability to read and understand survey responses in Spanish), strongly preferred
• A passion for quantitative data and research ethics is required
• Familiarity with education, early elementary, or and/or reading assessment instruments is preferred
• Familiarity with analysis of assessment data is preferred

Compensation

This is a full-time position. Springboard Collaborative will offer benefits and a salary within the range of $65,000-$70,000, commensurate with experience.

Location

Springboard Collaborative’s headquarter office is in Philadelphia, PA. Although applications are welcome from any location for remote flexibility, preference will be given to candidates who live in or are able to commute to Philadelphia.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 60,000 - 80,000.

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