Education Data Administrator

at State of Vermont in Montpelier, Vermont, United States

Job Description

The Data Management and Analysis Division (DMAD) of the Agency of Education (AOE) seeks an Education Data Administrator to join the Division's leadership team. Managing a three-to-four-person team known as the Data Management and Administration Team (DMAT), the Education Data Administrator oversees major collections of student, educator, and education organization data. This position collaborates with a varied group of stakeholders to ensure the AOE has high-quality and timely data available to contribute to its mission of leadership, support, and oversight of Vermont's public education system. DMAD's leadership team regularly collaborates on matters such as advancing data governance with an emphasis on data quality, strategic planning, and supporting positive work culture. 

Responsibilities:

• Manage critical data collections from 52 Supervisory Unions and Supervisory Districts encompassing approximately 80,000 students and 10,000 staff statewide with a focus on quality, completeness, and timeliness 
• Lead cross-team efforts to enhance the quality and consistency of collected data
• Collaborate with stakeholders in AOE and VT school districts to certify collected data for many uses, including key drivers of approximately $2.3 billion dollars in education grants
• Ensure strategic alignment of data collection and management with data needs
• Maintain and enhance the data collection system 
• Foster effective collaboration with data professionals in VT school districts as well as the vendors supporting AOE's Ed-Fi data collection system and districts' Student Information Systems
• Oversee both day-to-day and periodic formalized support and guidance for those who report data to AOE
• Collaborate in guiding enhancement efforts for DMAD's data storage and creation of a Reporting Data Store
• Coordinate with Vermont's Agency of Digital Services to define and enhance system and application architecture

As the team leader for DMAT, this position also oversees other work carried out by the team such as data matching and maintenance of state ID systems for students and educators, direct certification of students eligible for free and reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program, and management of data on Vermont's education organizations.

Successful candidates will possess strategic problem-solving skills, strong organization, communication, and relationship-building skills, supervisory experience, understanding of education data collection and data usage, demonstrated customer service skills and a genuine desire to serve the public education system in Vermont. Also necessary are advanced skills in the tools used by the Division, such as Databricks, Python, SQL, R, Cognito, and the Microsoft suite including SharePoint and Azure DevOps. Knowledge and understanding of Student Information Systems and/or the Ed-Fi Data Standard are strongly preferred.

Work is performed in a standard office setting, but travel may be required for which private means of transportation should be available.