🚀 Lead Analytics & Insights Manager, Statewide Initiatives

Summary

Under the direction of the Chief State Impact Officer, the Lead Analytics Consultant, Statewide Initiatives plays a leadership role in advancing data-driven decision-making and strategy development to improve student outcomes across early childhood, PK-12, and higher education throughout Texas. This role involves managing analytical projects, mentoring junior team members, and directly engaging with stakeholders to enhance data literacy and actionability. The Lead Consultant will oversee high-impact projects, contribute to statewide policy initiatives, and support education leaders across Texas through data analysis and strategic insights across Commit’s Policy and State Coalition, Commit to Leaders, Texas Impact Network, Texas Urban Council, and Texas College Bridge workstreams. Additionally, this role will provide leadership in shaping analytical priorities, guiding cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the effective execution of key initiatives within the Statewide Initiatives team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Data Analysis & Insights

• Lead complex data analysis efforts to identify key trends, patterns, and root causes affecting student success at a statewide level, providing actionable recommendations aligned with Commit Partnership goals
• Oversee the discovery, collection, tracking, and analysis of education and workforce data, ensuring data integrity and accuracy through public sources, data sharing agreements, and public information requests
• Develop predictive models and strategic frameworks to support policy and programmatic decisions across Texas.

Leadership & People Management

• Provide mentorship and professional development support to junior analysts and consultants within the Statewide Initiatives team
• Lead project teams, ensuring clarity of objectives, timely execution, and high-quality deliverables
• Serve as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, fostering collaboration and guiding data-driven decision-making
• Facilitate training and capacity-building initiatives to enhance data fluency among statewide education leaders, policymakers, and community backbone organizations

Data Visualization & Communication

• Develop compelling, high-impact visual reports and presentations that effectively translate complex data into actionable insights for diverse statewide audiences, including education agency leaders, policymakers, district administrators, and community backbone stakeholders
• Ensure that key findings and recommendations are communicated clearly through dashboards, presentations, and reports
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of executive-level presentations and materials for Statewide Initiative convenings, including meetings with districts, education agencies and policymakers

Project Management & Decision-Making

• Lead high-stakes projects involving cross-functional teams, setting strategic priorities, managing resources, and ensuring successful outcomes
• Drive data-informed decision-making processes across multiple teams, helping shape key initiatives and statewide educational strategies
• Assess and refine methodologies for measuring and evaluating policy effectiveness and impact across Texas

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a strategic partner to Commit’s Statewide Initiatives team, supporting engagement with state agencies, district coalitions, and education policy efforts
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners, including the Texas Education Agency, school districts, higher education institutions, policymakers, and community organizations
• Work extensively in Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, and Alteryx to analyze and visualize data that influence audiences to change systems aligned to Commit priorities

Salary Range

$91,000 - $110,000

Education and Experience Required

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., education policy, statistics, economics, public administration, or a related discipline)
• Experience: At least 4 years of experience in an analytics/insights, education, consulting, or nonprofit environment, with demonstrated leadership responsibilities
• Technology Proficiency: Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, and Alteryx

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Advanced proficiency in data analysis and visualization, with strong Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, and Alteryx skills
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience mentoring junior staff
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data insights into clear, compelling narratives
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to strategic decision-making
• Highly organized, with excellent project management and time management abilities
• Insatiable desire to transform student achievement in Texas and belief that education can be an equalizer
• Interest in education policy and a commitment to strong, bipartisan data-driven, students-first policies that increase educational outcomes for students
• A keen attention to detail and a strong commitment to maintaining accuracy in all aspects of their work
• Proven record of organization and professional success
• A well-rounded team player who will think critically and pivot quickly to complete fast-moving work with a high degree of quality
• A self-starter who manages multiple deadlines and communicates up, down, and across the team to ensure goals stay on track

Preferred

• Experience managing direct reports or leading cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with Texas education data and relevant social impact metrics
• Experience working in a nonprofit, public sector, or statewide policy-setting environment focused on education

Work Environment

The Manager generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.

Job Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.

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