NOLA Public Schools Vision
The vision of the NOLA Public Schools is that every student receives a high-quality education that fosters their individual capabilities, while ensuring that they thrive, achieve physical and mental wellness, and are prepared for civic, social, and economic success.
Position Summary
The Executive Director of Data Systems & Solutions leads the team responsible for the development, maintenance, and product strategy for the district’s data systems. This position ensures that stakeholders across the organization have access to accurate and timely data and analysis related to differentiated funding, portfolio design, school accountability, and enrollment. This position oversees the enrollment platform that ensures equitable access to over 50,000 students and is responsible for ensuring that the OneApp lottery process is accessible to families and the matching process is completed with fidelity.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads a team of product managers, solutions architects, and data analysts to ensure the execution of the technical aspects of the system’s unified enrollment system, production of district analysis, execution of the data components of the district’s annual renewal process, and the processing of the OneApp match results;
- Oversees the development and execution of analytic tools and ensures tools and deliverables meet the high-level needs of school and district users;
- Maintains roadmap for innovation of data products, integrations, and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of student enrollment processes and enhance stakeholder relationships;
- Responsible for developing the vision and implementing enhancements to the district’s data infrastructure to better support families, school leaders, and district staff;
- Collaborates and maintains close working relationship with other district teams, the Louisiana Department of Education, and other government and non-profit entities supporting youth in New Orleans.
- Ensures the maintenance of our district’s student information system containing historical records and active records for the > 50,000 students served by the unified enrollment system;
- Validates data systems and archived records are being maintained for in-depth historical purposes;
- Oversees development and implementation of the district’s school-finder application;
- Coordinates review and approval process for all external data and research requests;
- Writes or delegates the development of grant proposals, Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs);
- Leads strategy for the development of post-secondary progress monitoring and program capacity utilization tools;
- Assigns or completes ad-hoc analyses as requested by internal and external stakeholders; validates analyses aligns with the stakeholder’s request;
- Ensures support, trainings, resources, and enrollment engagement activities are available for public school staff tasked with managing enrollment;
- Supports portfolio strategy related to renewals, closures, transformations, phase-outs, and new school authorization;
- Communicates with researchers, vendors, and software developers regarding district data, data systems, and enrollment tools.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Serves as NOLA-PS representative on the Education Research Alliance’s advisory board and/or co-Primary Investigator (PI) on projects as needed
- Serves as NOLA-PS representative on YouthForce NOLA’s steering committee
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience or equivalent experience required;
- Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in Business Analytics, Quantitative Management, Applied Math or other related quantitative field.
Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
- Strong strategic analysis and planning, operational, and project management skills; successful managing a data team to achieve ambitious performance metrics;
- Deep expertise in data management, analysis, and project management;
- Database management experience and an understanding of object-oriented data systems is required;
- Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized, with the ability to meet frequent and changing deadlines;
- Ability to develop thoughtful and creative approaches for addressing a wide range of analytic questions and problems;
- Experience with Salesforce and SPSS, R, and/or Stata software is preferred; and
- Excellent written and oral communications;
- Performs other duties as assigned.
$65,400 - $99,735 a year
Salaries are determined by educational background and/or relevant years of experience.
Work Environment
Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and the work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) part of the workday;
- Required to exert physical effort in handling objects more than 30 pounds rarely;
- Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals) rarely;
- Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely;
- Normal setting for this job is an office/school setting.
Performance Evaluation
The employee will be evaluated based on the above position using either two methods: via COMPASS or a NOLA-PS evaluating instrument. If the employee holds an Educational Leadership certification, he/she will be evaluated via COMPASS to ensure renewal of certification.
EEOC Statement
NOLA Public Schools is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, lawful alien status, national origin, age, marital status, and non-job related physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.