Assessment and Data Information Specialist 3 - Washington Service Center - HIllsboro

About the role

The Assessment and Data Information Specialist 3 plays a crucial role in aligning with the Northwest Regional Education Service District's mission to improve student learning by providing equitable access to high-quality services and support. This position involves advanced understanding of data models, data sets, and producing a wide variety of queries and dynamic reports tied to strategic plans and department-specific goals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with numerous departments across NWRESD and component districts to identify needs and develop reports for end users.
• Provides data literacy support for educator teams and ensures their data collection systems are user-friendly.
• Conducts advanced small-to-large scale data, statistical, and mathematical analysis, and query or database program optimization.
• Develops and delivers training that models appropriate use of technology in an instructional setting.
• Data mines from and reports development from Infinite Visions, Synergy, ECWeb, and other district and ESD data sources.
• Works with stakeholders to create new reports or modify existing reports for program evaluations, grant applications, and other related needs; provides status updates and findings throughout projects, analysis, or the reporting cycle to key stakeholders.
• Efficiently produces polished and clear data reports for end users.
• Performs comparative analysis of data sets with respect to state reporting, auditing, and district guidelines.
• Utilizes best practices to create, automate, and standardize queries and reports; prepares and presents recommendations, and implements solutions for the reduction of manual report generation or distribution.
• Initiates, develops, and implements procedures, priorities, and timelines for data cleanup to ensure data availability for reporting timelines and other annual reporting processes and requirements; maintains and distributes recurring reports, ensuring they meet requirements and are submitted in a timely manner to remain compliant with NWRESD, local, state, federal, and other reporting agencies.
• Documents requirements for current production report requests, both small and large.
• Collaborates with the Director of Research, Assessment, and Evaluation in all phases of academic data testing and reporting.
• Keeps current on research design, statistical methodologies in education; attends and participates in meetings, conferences, and seminars relevant to new developments in assessment, reporting requirements, compliance, data collection, analysis, and distribution; leads, attends, and participates in a variety of meetings, in-service trainings, workshops, conferences, and seminars relevant to data analysis and reporting.
• Documents current reporting environment and processes.
• Performs other job duties as assigned.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in a Data Science, Social Sciences, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
• Equivalent experience/training and college coursework considered.
• Experience in a similar role and/or knowledge, experience, and skills to successfully perform the responsibilities listed.
• Expertise with Student Information Systems.
• Expertise with various data dashboarding and report development tools.
• Expertise with SQL (Structured Query Language) script development.
• Experience with statistical modeling software (SPSS, R) preferred.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office Professional Suite (Word, Excel, Access).
• Valid Drivers License; available transportation and proof of auto insurance.
• Bilingual and biliteracy skills preferred.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
• Ability to exhibit professionalism and effective human relations.
• Confer regularly with immediate supervisor.
• Proficient in the use of computer and internet-based applications, including but not limited to email, internet software, Google Suite, and word processing (MS Word).
• Able to work with a very high degree of accuracy and organizational skills.
• Understand the overall and detailed functions of a student information system and the Oregon Department of Education’s data systems and processes.
• Ability to analyze problems, provide recommendations, and implement solutions with a high degree of accuracy.
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills, and ability to deal with a variety of situations.
• Education, training, and experience related to computer applications, operating systems, file systems, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in educational settings.
• Ability to lead work with minimal supervision, communicate clearly, and prioritize, manage, and delegate multiple projects.

Skills

• Knowledge of Student Information Systems.
• Expertise with various data dashboarding and report development tools.
• Expertise with SQL (Structured Query Language) script development.
• Experience with statistical modeling software (SPSS, R) preferred.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office Professional Suite (Word, Excel, Access).
• Valid Drivers License; available transportation and proof of auto insurance.
• Bilingual and biliteracy skills preferred.