YES Prep
is hiring
Data Analyst, Culture
About Our Company
At YES Prep, we work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Our YES staff grow as authentic leaders and are part of an equity driven, team-oriented culture.
Job Description & Responsibilities
YES Prep needs a dynamic Culture Data Analyst with a diverse set of experiences, to make our mission a reality. As a YES Prep employee, you will achieve jaw-dropping results, create pathways to opportunity for our students, build transformative relationships, and eliminate educational inequities to advance social justice.
To put it simply, you will bring data insights to light to help YES Prep make key decisions about student programming.
THE ROLE
When you join the YES Prep team, some of the exciting work and responsibilities will include:
- Developing new data visualizations and analyses that drive insight, direction, and goal-setting for YES Prep Culture
- Refreshing and refining existing data visualizations that support district goals for persistence, student discipline, socio-emotional learning, and other cultural programming.
- Working with the Analytics team, the Culture team, and the Leadership Development Team to scope end-user requirements and project plan for advanced interactive and dynamic data visualizations to meet functional needs;
- Staying atop data trends, key indicators, and industry standards;
- Evaluating data sets to determine best data visualization methods to present information;
- Acting as a strategic partner by resolving end-user questions in a timely, friendly, and proactive manner;
- Developing training and end-user support for data visualizations and reports;
- Supporting team in delivering data, analyses, and insights from complex data sets that enable us to drive strategic priorities;
- Designing and providing training to organization leadership on the use, manipulation, and analysis of interactive data visualizations;
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
THE PERSON
We seek staff with diverse backgrounds, talents, interests, and ideas. Certain traits consistently shine through for our most successful employees: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, and humility. Other traits needed and desired for this role are:
THE MUST HAVES
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution
- 1-3 years of experience working with data
- Excellent data fluency and data intuition
- Proven track record of data analysis to solve problems and drive improvement
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI (preferred) or Tableau
- Proven ability to manage projects, lead teams, and learn and utilize technological skills
- Intermediate expertise with Microsoft Excel
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
- Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback
- Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
- Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment
- Creates and maintains positive working relationships on a team and/or in a highly collaborative environment
- A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional
THE MUST HAVE BELIEFS
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core values of YES Prep Public Schools
- Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education
- Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos
- Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results
- Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth
THE BONUS POINTS
- Experience as an analyst
- Experience with SQL
- Experience in K12 education
What we offer
POSITION: Culture Data Analyst
REPORTS TO: Research and Data Analyst
POSITION TYPE: 12-month
START DATE: Immediate
COMPENSATION: $54,911 - $65,894, Home Office Grade 4
THE PERKS
- Compensation – This position is an exempt, salaried position; salary offers commensurate with experience.
- Health and Supplemental Insurance – A $10 monthly medical option that includes $600 towards a Health Savings Account, in addition to a variety of supplemental benefits including Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, etc. Employees must work 20+ hours a week to be eligible for a full spectrum of benefits, and 10 hours a week minimum for medical benefits.
- Retirement Plans – Participation in Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a 457 Retirement Plan.
- Paid Time Off – Employees working 20+ hours a week receive 15 days of Paid Time Off in addition to the system closures during the Academic Calendar.
- Paid Leave Programming – In the event you need to be out due to medical needs (including maternity and paternity leave), YES Prep offers paid leave, paid out at 100%, based on eligibility and tenure.
- Professional Development - YES Prep values longevity and performance over time. We invest in developing leaders through high-quality programs, effective coaching, and ongoing professional development.
- Award Winning Culture – The strong cultures of our campuses and Home Office are just one of many reasons we were named Houston’s Best Place to work in 2018, 2019, and 2021. We won the 2012 Broad Prize for Excellence in Urban Education and were a 2016 finalist as well.