Data Analyst (Contractor)

Stride, Inc.

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Data Analyst assists in the preparation, design, and execution of analyses and deployed models to improve the academic and business outcomes of Stride schools and services. This position participates as a member of the data science team in identifying and analyzing school data, proprietary data, and third-party data to answer thoughtful and relevant research questions and provide replicable, well-documented analyses.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field, or equivalent training
• Three (3) years of relevant professional experience, including at least one (1) year of experience performing action and outcome-oriented data analysis OR Equivalent combination of education and experience
• Demonstrated success in working collaboratively with other professional staff
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint)
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• Ability to clear required background check

Nice To Haves

• Experience in K12 education as a teacher or researcher or data personnel
• Excel VBA, PowerQuery, PowerPivot
• Familiarity working within Microsoft PowerBI
• Experience writing queries in SQL
• Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases

Responsibilities

• Summarize analyses of current dashboards to drive insights, provide high-level overviews of major conclusions, constraints or cautions, specify action recommendations and mechanisms for assessing outcomes of those actions.
• Learn functionality of current data products and dashboards to fully support end user.
• Create, enhance, and conduct trainings on data products to various stakeholders.
• Prioritize replicable work, posts all code and documentation in shared repositories.
• Provide quality assurance of imported data, working with quality assurance analyst, if necessary.
• Process confidential data and information according to guidelines.
• Support initiatives for data integrity and normalization.
• Collect data routinely and independently as requested to monitor and report on implementation of specific initiatives.
• Perform data collection, organization and modeling improving academics and business at Stride.

Benefits

• Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level.
• Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections.
• Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level