Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leading Educators is a national nonprofit dedicated to improving educational outcomes through excellent teaching. They are seeking an Associate Director, Data Generalist to ensure high-quality data informs strategic decisions and supports the organization’s mission. The role involves managing data operations, conducting analyses, and translating findings into actionable insights to enhance educational practices.
Responsibilities
- Ensure high-quality data informs every strategic decision
- Help shape how Research, Data Strategy, and Data Systems teams operate
- Create project plans, meeting agendas, documentation, and tracking tools
- Coordinate work across multiple teams, ensuring priorities remain visible and stakeholders stay connected
- Take ownership of analytical projects, including cleaning, validating, and organizing data
- Conduct quantitative analyses, build dashboards and reports, and translate findings into clear insights
- Contribute to larger cross-functional initiatives and lead smaller projects that inform organizational strategy
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Education Research, Social Sciences, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in data analysis, research, analytics, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience managing projects or coordinating multiple priorities simultaneously
- Proven experience supporting research projects or working with research methodologies
- Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings to varied audiences
- Ability to travel 1–3 times per year for organizational retreats, programming, and professional development
- Authorization to work for any employer in the United States
- Quantitative data analysis and statistical methods, with the ability to clean, organize, and validate datasets from multiple sources
- Project coordination and management, with proven success juggling multiple concurrent priorities and keeping teams aligned
- Data visualization and communication, translating technical analyses into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences
- Research methodologies and processes, including survey development, literature synthesis, and research logistics
- Demonstrated proficiency with data management, analysis, and reporting tools, including: SurveyMonkey (or similar survey platforms), Excel, SQL, R, Power BI, Tableau, Other comparable business intelligence tools for developing dashboards and actionable reports
Benefits
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees. Additional premium costs are covered 60% by Leading Educators for partners and dependents on medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 4% matching 401k plan, Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare and commuter expenses, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Benefits are valued at or above $9,000 for employees.
- First three years of employment, full time staff accrue twenty two days a year.
- Five additional days are accrued after the third and sixth year of employment.
- Leading Educators also offer sixteen additional paid days off for various holidays, including three floating holidays staff may use at their discretion.
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