Academic Systems and Analytics Associate at Nova Pioneer

Responsibilities will include:

• Gather, analyse, report,  support and guide on student academic performance data across all grades, schools, functions and regions.
• Responsible for the distribution, analysis and insight development of all stakeholder satisfaction and ad-hoc surveys using an enterprise survey tool. The successful candidate should also have experience in managing surveying cycles and in employing techniques to improve response rates. 
• Ability to understand multiple systems across functions, and build school friendly tools for analysis and action.
• Create high quality professional and easily digestible reports and be able to tailor these to a specific audience, including a weekly dashboard for school
• Build in best practices for various analytics, making sure to maintain data integrity, security (by tracking access privileges) and quality.
• .Support in the maintenance, validation and cleaning of teammate and allied data.
• Be familiar with data protection legislation and have some experience (or a proven interest) in developing protocols to ensure compliance (e.g., SA- Protection of Personal Information act of / Kenya Data Protection Act).
• Project management experience or the ability to lead or provide input on large, multi-stakeholder projects.
• The comfort to get stuck in on any task in the team should additional capacity be required. 
• Working with team leadership to create healthy team dynamics, and an environment where all teammates feel valued and supported in their growth and development. 
• Responsible for weekly support with accountability for gradebook completion and updates by schools and their teams.
• Responsible for data tracking and accountability for school follow-up to organisation-wide structures such as stakeholder satisfaction surveys.

About you:

Characteristics that will make you successful in this role:

• Kindness is a core value to you.
• You care deeply about your larger team, and are invested in seeing them thrive, removing obstacles in their way, and in general are always willing to be helpful. 
• You must be someone who enjoys a fast paced environment, is comfortable with ambiguity or change, and is quickly able to adapt as needed to meet the changing demands of the organisation. 
• You are a planner and continually monitor your progress towards achieving a goal.
• You enjoy both giving and receiving feedback, and strive for excellence, even in areas you are not familiar with, by implementing continuous feedback.
• You thrive in a remote working environment, and have experience fostering relationships with teammates from afar.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills that make you an effective manager and team-player
• You are a go-getter, take initiative, and are passionate about your work, but realise when you need to ask questions to overcome obstacles.
• You strive for excellence in yourself and in others, always holding high expectations.
• You are detail-oriented and goal-focused, taking pleasure in achieving tasks to the best of your abilities.
• You have a growth mindset and are eager to always be learning. You welcome feedback because you know it will help you grow. 

Technical and professional requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical field is required (Science, business, mathematics or statistics).
• 2+ years of experience in a fast-paced, data/systems analytics, business intelligence, survey methodologist or operations environment.  
• Strong analytical ability, able to review / assess / make recommendations as a result of analysis.
• You are an advanced user of microsoft excel/google sheets (required) and may have some prior statistical coding experience in e.g., R or Python especially in terms of data visualization (advantageous).
• You have worked with survey tools, have experience in designing and running survey cycles and are able to create actionable reports.
• Comfortable with presenting to various stakeholders, from junior to C-suite level.