Job Description

Who We Are

Since its founding in 2010, Challenge Preparatory Charter School (Challenge Prep) has provided students and families with a successful academic program in Far Rockaway, Queens. We currently serve over 1200 scholars from Kindergarten to 12th grade across 3 sites. Our school’s mission is to prepare students from the greater Far Rockaway community to excel academically, to demonstrate mastery of the NY State Learning Standards, and to achieve their career aspirations. Challenge cultivates and supports the intellectual, aesthetic, social, emotional, and ethical development of its students and prepares them to be responsible 21st century citizens. To accomplish its mission, Challenge offers a rigorous instructional program in a safe, supportive, technology-infused and data-enriched and social-emotional learning sequence, authentic field experiences, career counseling, and college coursework. It is understood that we are one organization with multiple sites, and it is expected that all members of the team collaborate to support all of our scholars.

Understanding the Role

The Data, Information, and Assessment Systems Specialist will report to the Secondary School Principal and to the Senior Director of Secondary Teaching and Learning for school-wide and network-wide data and systems needs. The Data, Information, and Assessment Systems Specialist is responsible for the production, organization, and analysis of the many types of data required to support our student's achievement. The goal is to have systems that seamlessly connect our educational data to generate powerful analytics to educators at Challenge Charter School.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following

• Serve as a member of the school’s leadership team
• Actively collaborate with the school-wide Data and Information Systems Specialist
• Actively manage our Student Information System (PowerSchool), and expand schoolwide usage of and fluency with this tool
• Serve as liaison between the school and our identity management consulting company
• Serve as the primary point of contact and resident “expert” to support school teams with implementing and using our SIS, LMS, and other educational platforms/programs
• Collaborate with instructional leadership team members to design, create, and implement internally-created assessments
• Collect, sort, analyze, and present scholar academic data in a variety of formats for student action planning, monthly board reports, etc.
• Plan, facilitate data days and other professional learning opportunities where needed
• Review and present the K-5 data in various ways- NYCDOE, NYSED, BOCES, and compliance reports to the elementary administrative team
• Assist with GradeBook, Progress Reports, Report Cards, ongoing student achievement data collection, and reporting and analysis
• Develop & maintain user roles & permissions (including onboarding and offboarding) within our education technology platforms
• Collaborate with school-based Ops team to ensure proper setup, cleanup, and protocols for data entry
• Support and coordinate troubleshooting for school leaders, teachers and staff across data systems, applications and reporting requests
• Create, maintain, and adjust master and student schedules
• Additional duties as assigned

Skills, Qualifications, and/or Competencies Required

• Strong knowledge of K-12 school systems and understanding of ways in which core data and digital systems function and can be leveraged to improve outcomes for students
• 4+ years of proven experience designing, deploying, and managing core information systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Technology or related field or equivalent work experience
• Working technical knowledge of data modeling techniques including conceptual, logical, and physical
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Keen attention to detail
• Proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities

Who We Seek

• The ideal candidate is a strategic systems thinker, detail-oriented, collaborative project manager with an excellent grasp of data and digital technologies that are commonly used in K-12 education. The candidate is someone who will thrive on an entrepreneurial and growing team, is a leader who anticipates system and database needs and proactively takes action before issues arise, and has demonstrated success working in schools, strong knowledge of technology systems for curriculum and design and implementation and the passion to lead and support others in a fast-paced environment. This is a blended technical and user-facing role. They are willing to go above and beyond each day to serve our school and is ready to pitch in wherever they are needed.

Recruitment Process

Phase I - Interview with the HR Recruiter

Phase II - Interview Challenge Leadership Team

Phase III - Reference Check

Final - Hire Recommendation and Offer

Estimated Salary Range

$90,000 - $100,000