Only 33% of U.S. fourth graders and 31% of eighth graders are reading at grade level (according to National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment scores).

Ignite Reading is on a mission to fix this.

Ignite Reading delivers one-to-one virtual tutoring that teaches K–8th graders the foundational skills they need to become confident, fluent readers. We pair developing readers with expert reading tutors who provide daily, 15-minute, Science of Reading-based instruction that rapidly closes decoding gaps.

Students across all demographics achieve the same outstanding results, including students with IEPs, multilingual learners, students of color and those receiving free or reduced-price lunch. After 14 weeks of tutoring with Ignite Reading, students whose composite score was at or above benchmark on the DIBELS assessment grew from 11% to 45%.*

By ensuring all students master the foundational skills to fluently read any word, Ignite Reading empowers them to move forward and unlock everything school and life have to offer.

"Ignite Reading is one of the most, if not the most, successful interventions we have implemented in our district. The student results and program design are indisputable."

• Claudia Salvestrin, Assistant Superintendent, Red Bluff Union Elementary School District, CA

*Source: Study conducted by American Institutes for Research of K–3rd graders in six school districts in Massachusetts

The Data Analyst reports to the Director of Operations for the Ignite! Reading program, and is responsible for compiling, cleaning, analyzing and creating reports from all of the data generated by the reading program.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage program data collection, including student achievement data and survey data
• Perform quality assurance on all data for accuracy
• Create report templates to share information with internal and external stakeholders, and develop and execute the processes required to produce those reports on a timely basis
• Conduct a variety of statistical, exploratory, and descriptive analyses to improve the management and effectiveness of the program
• Use your knowledge of Ignite!’s strategic initiatives to improve the data collection and analysis processes, identifying new opportunities to use data to improve results
• In collaboration with the Director of Operations and leadership, support with data compilation/reporting/insights/recommendations connected to Ignite! Reading’s KPIs
• Support platform configuration, licensing, maintenance, integration and reporting efforts to ensure third party systems meet Ignite! Reading data needs
• Support ad hoc projects at the direction of the Director of Operations

Core Competencies And Job Qualifications

• Strong quantitative skills as demonstrated by either prior work experience as a data analyst or college coursework
• Experience using Excel or Google Sheets to merge, clean, aggregate and analyze data
• Hyper-organized, attentive to detail, and process-oriented
• A self-starter comfortable working independently who persists until the job is done
• Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable in a high-growth startup-like environment: you’re resourceful, calm under pressure, and welcome with ambiguity and change
• Passionate about our mission to teach kids to read
• Preferred Experience or have taken coursework in computer programming languages and/or data visualization platforms such as SQL, Python, R, or Tableau
• Preferred experience working with student data and knowledge of handling Personally Identifiable Information (PII)