Teach For America

Junior Data Analyst

Position Summary

The Junior Data Analyst will play a critical role on Teach For America’s Human Assets team by managing the organization’s position management system, which is a core element of our Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) and is a critical input to Teach For America’s annual budget and planning process, compensation processes, entering and transferring processes, as well as various important analysis and reporting solutions. This person will also manage other vital HRIS systems, including time & attendance. The Junior Data Analyst will proactively provide analysis and insights using data from the systems s/he manages and will collaborate with other team members to develop and implement the next generation of these systems. S/he will act as the primary gatekeeper for position approval, position changes, and headcount management requests from key stakeholders, thereby gaining exposure to key members of the Human Assets team and leaders from across the organization. In addition, the Junior Data Analyst will establish, maintain, and promote effective relationships with all staff members who use the time & attendance system by providing excellent customer service by providing user support. The Junior Data Analyst will report directly to the Director of Administration Operations on the Benefits and Administration team. This is a great opportunity for someone motivated by data systems, problem solving, and working with a variety of people across the organization.

The Human Assets team drives Teach For America’s growth and success by supporting all teams in attracting, engaging, retaining, and developing staff members. This team ensures that Teach For America is a high-performance organization that provides unparalleled leadership development opportunities and fosters extraordinary, diverse talent.

Responsibilities

• Working with Business Partners and Team Leaders to coordinate the planning, development, and implementation of consistent position management processes to release positions for hire, in alignment with established position management norms and budget guidelines
• Working with Human Assets team members to develop, implement, and maintain streamlined position approval processes for designated classifications and maintain documentation of standards for approvals
• Administering position management, HRIS and time & attendance systems by tracking positions and headcount, running reports, and ensuring data integrity through various data audits
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining training programs for team members who interact with position management, time & attendance, and other HR systems in addition to sharing out best practices as needed
• Working with key stake holders to facilitate and align on all organizational structure changes
• Monitoring position changes for budget impact to ensure adherence to financial goals and objectives
• Supporting Teach For America’s budget modeling processes by providing accurate position management information, tracking positions, and performing budget/position management reconciliations
• Serving as a resource by providing position-related reports to cross functional team members such as HRIS and Finance Planning and Analysis
• Partnering with the technology team to determine and implement data analysis solutions and to proactively identify long-term improvements
• Assisting in the design and implementation of new systems and processes to help inform longer term decisions around Teach For America’s strategy for achieving the 2010 growth plan by performing data analyses, and recommending solutions as needed
• Entering employee information into the time & attendance system, updating changes, and providing user-support
• Managing all time & attendance incoming inquiries and troubleshooting errors
• Monitoring the transfer of data between systems to ensure data integrity

Candidate Profile and Experience Prerequisites

Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience creating and managing informational systems
• 0-2 years minimum of professional work experience
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of relational database systems; a working knowledge of HR operations, administration, and HRIS platforms a plus
• Previous data analysis and reporting experience required
• Excellent attention to detail, self-audit, project management skills, and demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication and customer relation skills required
• Previous data analysis and reporting experience required

Computer/Software Skills
• Excellent Excel/Access/MS Office skills/Outlook
• Reporting experience preferred (e.g. Crystal Reports, Access, ADP ReportSmith and other reporting writing tool) a plus

Benefits and Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.

Anti-Discrimination Policy and Commitment to Diversity

Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort.

Additional Requirments / Information

Job Capacity:	Employee (full-time)
Minimum Education Level:	See Job Description
Visa Sponsorship:	No
Related Industries:	Human Resources

Become part of a force for change.

Teach For America is the national corps that calls upon outstanding and diverse recent college graduates to commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in ensuring that all our nation’s children have an equal chance in life. Since 1989, 7000 corps members in 16 geographic areas have positively impacted students and communities while gaining the insight, network, skills and credibility to effect change after their two-year commitment.

THE CHALLENGE
Children growing up in urban areas and remote rural regions often face tremendous socio-economic challenges. Public schools are generally not set up to compensate for these challenges. The result is that children growing up in low-income communities are seven times less likely to graduate from college than children in high-income areas.

With fewer educational prospects come fewer life prospects.

IMMEDIATE IMPACT
Teach For America selects a committed, outstanding corps of diverse college graduates who will set ambitious goals for their students and work proactively and relentlessly to meet these goals. Corps members are trained to develop the leadership skills they have demonstrated and to apply them in the classroom, resulting in better educational and life prospects for the students they teach.

The 2001 corps has an average GPA of 3.5 and 35% of the corps are people of color. 86% of corps members held at least one leadership position as undergraduates.

Corps members receive intensive training in the approaches used by successful teachers in under-resourced communities and are supported at the regional and national levels throughout their commitment

96% of principals surveyed rated corps members as "advantageous" to their schools, with the majority rating them "strongly advantageous" (Kane, Parsons, and Associates, 1999).

LONG TERM CHANGE
Teach For America alumni form a network of successful, informed leaders who have insight into the changes needed to improve life prospects in under-resourced areas, and who work towards these changes through all sectors of society.

Approximately 60 % of alumni remain in the field of education, as teachers, school and district administrators, or founders of innovative new schools and programs.

Another 40% of alumni work in fields such as medicine, business, politics, journalism, and law, using their status as leaders and the insight and credibility they gained in the corps to effect change.

All alumni come out of their Teach For America experience positioned for success. Graduate schools and employers value the concrete, transferable skills gained by corps members.

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