Every School. Every Student. Every Day.

The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) North Carolina is a network of eight tuition-free, college-preparatory public charter schools serving approximately 3,000 students in grades K-12 across Durham, Halifax, Northampton, and Mecklenburg counties. At KIPP NC, we are dedicated to improving life outcomes for North Carolina’s children through culturally relevant, research-based curricula and by clearing pathways for students to achieve their unique definitions of success.

At KIPP, we recognize the transformative power of data in driving student achievement and school performance. As the Manager of Data and Assessment, you play a pivotal role in ensuring our schools are equipped with the insights and tools necessary to make informed decisions. Your work will shape the way we measure success, support student growth, and empower educators to deliver their best every day.

At KIPP NC, we are committed to your growth and success as a leader. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and access to a collaborative KIPP Team and Family that supports innovation and professional development. Your work will directly contribute to our shared vision of a future without limits for every student.

Join KIPP NC as the Manager of Data and Assessment and help shape the systems and strategies that enable students, schools, and communities to thrive.

The Opportunity

The Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will help the Chief Academic Officer, Teaching and Learning Team, the Regional Leadership Team of KIPP NC, and school leaders understand and improve the outcomes and health of the KIPP NC network and its schools. Reporting to the Managing Director of Academic Operations, the Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will steer the assessment strategy for KIPP NC and conduct critical analyses of KIPP NC’s outcomes data, generating actionable insights and recommendations for organizational leadership and KIPP NC school leaders. The Manager of Academic Data & Assessment will elevate data beyond the purely descriptive, building a compelling narrative that will drive and improve impact across the KIPP NC network. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with exceptional analytical skills and the ability to tell a solutions-oriented story with data. They are motivated to build relationships and collaborate on cross-functional teams to address mission-critical demands for data analysis that impact policy, practice, and student outcomes.

This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader to play a critical role in building and shaping a premier K-12 charter management organization committed to supporting all our students to succeed in school and life.

Key Responsibilities

Team Collaboration

• Helps to build a strong, cohesive team culture that reflects the core values of KIPP NC

• Works in collaboration with Teaching and Learning Team colleagues and school-based teams to provide exceptional guidance, reports and resources to principals and schools

• With instructional team colleagues, helps plan and implement professional development and data sessions for school principals, Assistant Principals, Directors of Operations, and teachers

• Contributes to the annual planning process for KIPP NC by prioritizing assessment and insight work, identifying buckets of continuing and new work, and identifying interdependencies

• Leads goal-setting and analytical efforts to determine metrics related to KIPP NC’s strategic plan

• Presents analytics and insights to all members of the KIPP NC community

• Partners with KIPP Foundation to develop and improve data goal-setting and analysis processes

• Engages in cross-functional collaboration across the Regional Support Team to improve and enhance all data systems

Assessment Strategy

• Develops and leads KIPP NC’s agenda around K-12 assessment

• Strives towards 100% participation in all KIPP NC assessments

• Supports school level Assessment Points (virtually and in person) to implement a seamless and consistent assessment process that fosters productive testing environments for students

• Serves as KIPP NC’s assessment accountability representative for the North Carolina Department Department of Public Instruction

• Ensure compliance with all North Carolina assessment regulations

• Understands, internalizes, and stays abreast of the state’s approach to measuring student proficiency and growth data; serves as KIPP NC’s in-house expert on accountability measures and school report card scores, including how to predict proficiency accurately; develops and drives approach to educating the region on how those scores are calculated and ways to improve them

Data Analysis

• Builds out a systematic approach to response to academic data, progress monitors its effectiveness, and collaborates with leaders to drive results through this approach; uses our academic achievement data to determine which grades and subjects need prioritized support; 

• Conducts analysis on all assessment data, including defining high priority research questions, conducting the analysis, and presenting the work in visually compelling and easy to understand ways

• Prepares and delivers regular reports to keep key stakeholders informed about student achievement, including regional colleagues, school leaders, teachers, the KIPP NC Board, and key external partners

• Facilitates data meetings for Teaching and Learning colleagues, senior leadership, and other stakeholders to support strong data analysis and action cycles

• Develops systems for conducting, analyzing, and reporting out on school-based assessments (i.e., Interim Assessments and curriculum-based assessments)

• Intensively collaborates with Teaching and Learning Team,  principals, and teachers to help develop reporting strategy, priorities, and roadmaps  

• Leads efforts to create new reports, including collecting stakeholder input, developing and refining requirements, partnering with IT on developing a plan to ensure data structure is aligned with the vision, and building new reports in whatever system is recommended for KIPP NC

Data Systems

• Builds and maintains data systems for collecting and analyzing data (i.e., Tableau, Illuminate, mClass, EVAAS)

• Creates and maintains KIPP NC academic dashboards in Tableau

• Collaborates with KIPP NC colleagues to determine dashboard strategy and metrics

KIPP North Carolina Leadership

• Participates in KIPP NC academic leadership team that oversees the strategy for all KIPP North Carolina programming

• Works with KIPP NC academic leadership to develop a vision and comprehensive long-term plan for the design of integrated, scaffolded K-12 schools

• Recommends to the KIPP NC Chief Academic Officer system-wide goals; monitors and reports back to the Chief Academic Officer on the progress toward achieving those goals

Qualifications

KIPP NC’s Manager of Academic Data & Assessment candidates will have the following:

• A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP NC and an unwavering belief in the potential of all our students

• An unwavering commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion

• A strong desire to collaborate with school leaders and Central Office teammates in service to a new KIPP region growing out of two exceptionally strong ones

• A love of data, a B.A. in a related field, and 5+ years of related work experience

• Strong experience in quantitative analysis and quantitative data processing and management

• Expertise in writing SQL queries and other statistical software; proficiency in Tableau required

• Knowledge of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction assessment and accountability preferred

• Excellent attention to detail and constant focus on data quality; excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate research and analysis findings to a range of non-research audiences

• Outstanding leadership and management skills, particularly as it relates to building teams, working through others, promoting collaboration, managing conflict, goal setting, and holding people accountable

• An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program, department or organization

• Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs

• Possess a deep commitment to both racial equity and improving the lives of kids from low-income communities; experience working within predominantly Black, Brown, and/or low-income communities

• Understanding and willingness to work in both rural and urban communities, including exhibiting resourcefulness and willingness to travel up to five hours within North Carolina multiple days per week based on need

• Must live in North Carolina and be willing to travel up to four hours to support schools

Additional Information

• This is a 12 month role, full-time, ongoing role
• Willing to travel to our schools in Charlotte, Durham, and Gaston regularly
• Role primarily works from home, so reliable internet is required
• KIPP laptop and other resources are provided

Total Rewards - Compensation + Benefits

Salary for this role is $81,400 - $91,400 based on competency, years of relevant experience, and education.

• Healthcare (medical, vision, and dental) at no cost to individuals and deep discounts for dependents
• Enrollment in a retirement program with employer match
• On-going professional development opportunities
• Generous time off:
  • Paid Time Off  (17 days PTO & 6 days sick leave annually)
  • Time off for all major national holidays (including Fall Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break)