Overview
At PowerSchool, we’re a devoted crew of innovators guided by our shared goal of powering customized schooling for college kids around the globe. From the central workplace to the classroom to the house, PowerSchool helps your complete academic ecosystem as the worldwide chief of cloud-based software program for Ok-12 schooling. Our staff make all of it doable, and a profession with us means you’re becoming a member of a profitable crew dedicated to partaking, empowering, and enhancing the Ok-12 schooling expertise in every single place.
Speciality Overview
Housed inside PowerSchool’s Training Technique division, the Coverage Engagement & Training Analysis (PEER) Heart is devoted to remodeling schooling by means of data-driven insights and modern know-how options. The PEER Heart focuses on utilizing statisticaland knowledge science strategies to conduct Ok-12 schooling methods analysis and to steer strategic impression initiatives and coverage consultations for schooling companies. The PEER Heart additionally works on choose initiatives to bridge the hole between analysis and schooling know-how by coordinating third-party efficacy research of PowerSchool merchandise and supporting improvement of research-driven instruments. Earlier and present initiatives embrace partnership on two analysis research on Ok-12 particular schooling spending (one on the state degree and one on the federal degree), useful resource audits for a number of districts across the nation, and spearheading the event of ImplementforImpact.org.
The Principal Researcher or Analysis Director works below the minimal supervision of an Training Technique Sr. Director. On this capability, they lead complicated Ok-12 schooling analysis and consultancy initiatives, driving the design, execution, and dissemination of research and consultancy initiatives that inform academic observe and coverage. This function is accountable for setting the strategic analysis agenda, assuring methodological rigor, and leveraging superior knowledge evaluation to supply actionable insights. The Principal Researcher or ResearchDirector gives technical and thought management to a multidisciplinary crew, fosters sturdy stakeholder relationships, and champions the usage of proof and knowledge in decision-making internally and externally. On a crew that has traditionally centered on finance and administrative- and system-level Ok-12 matters, this chief combines deep schooling sector data with experience in statistical strategies and knowledge science to ship high-impact analysis outcomes. This function additionally manages undertaking budgets and ensures compliance with funding companies, moral and authorized requirements, and firm insurance policies and operational requirements.
Obligations
Description
As a frontrunner of this newly established crew, the Principal Researcher or Analysis Director function presents the chance to be entrepreneurial in defining the imaginative and prescient and path of the PEER Heart, together with figuring out best-fit areas of high-impact, carving out future pipeline, and furthering the crew’s repute as a trusted associate within the analysis and consultancy area. Moreover, the PEER Heart’s place at a number one schooling know-how firm affords a non-traditional analysis atmosphere that uniquely affords flexibility and selection in the kind of work the crew takes on, organizational construction, and principle of impression. It might additionally present choose alternatives to associate with leaders on the broader Training Technique crew or throughout the PowerSchool ecosystem on to make sure the group and its merchandise are assembly the wants of the colleges and schooling companies it serves.
Important duties and obligations embrace the next. Affordable lodging could allow people with disabilities to carry out the important capabilities.
The Director Analysis or Principal Researcher will lead the design and execution of complicated analysis initiatives and initiatives. In that function, they are going to conduct give attention to these key areas:
- Undertaking Management & Analysis Design: Lead the design and execution of complicated analysis initiatives on Ok-12 schooling matters, from preliminary idea and analysis questions by means of last deliverables. In partnership with the crew, develop detailed undertaking work plans, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches that align with organizational objectives. Guarantee rigorous examine design, together with applicable sampling, checks for knowledge high quality, bias, and limitations. Make high-stakes choices on undertaking path and regulate methods as wanted to attain analysis goals. Work with Undertaking Supervisor to establish undertaking staffing, job delegation, timeline administration, and multi-project coordination.
- Compliance & Price range Administration: Handle undertaking budgets, vendor relationships, and buying capabilities and associated contractual agreements. Work with Undertaking Supervisor to observe and commonly report on undertaking assets and operations, together with hours, income, deliverables, and contracts. Guarantee compliance with PowerSchool’s monetary and operations insurance policies, funding companies, sponsors, moral and authorized requirements, and knowledge privateness.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and handle sturdy relationships with purchasers, companions, and Ok-12 schooling stakeholders (comparable to faculty district officers, state schooling companies, and educators) tounderstand shopper wants, guarantee shopper satisfaction, and develop enterprise pipeline.
- Communications & Reporting: Lead and oversee the crew’s communication of complicated analyses into clear findings and suggestions by means of conferences, shows, high-quality analysis experiences, white papers, and govt summaries that inform decision-makers. Be certain that all successfully talk the methodology, outcomes, and implications of the analysis. Champion the publication of findings the place applicable (e.g., business experiences or educational journals) and the sharing of insightsinternally and with the broader schooling and analysis group.
- Strategic Management & Progress: Play a key function in shaping the long-term analysis technique and figuring out new alternatives. Consider rising Ok-12 schooling tendencies and coverage points to suggest analysis initiatives that may place the group as a thought chief. Contribute to enterprise improvement by supporting grant proposals, RFP responses, and different funding alternatives. Work carefully with senior management to align analysis initiatives with product improvement and organizational objectives. Act as an inner advocate for analysis, constructing data-driven communities and data sharing.
- Crew Administration & Mentorship: Mentor multidisciplinary crew of researchers/knowledge scientists and different employees by offering suggestions on undertaking content material, methodological choices, evaluation strategies, and code. Work cross-functionally with undertaking contributors from totally different PowerSchool groups—together with builders, knowledge engineers, designers, copyeditors, and so forth.—to execute initiatives.
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- PhD in a related discipline (e.g., Training, Training Coverage, Training Management, Sociology, Computational Social Science, Statistics, Information Science) (or equal mixture of superior diploma and expertise) strongly most popular.
- Intensive expertise in designing and conducting analysis research and/or consultancy initiatives from begin to end utilizing rigorous quantitative analysis strategies.
- 5 years of progressive expertise executing and main analysis or consultancy initiatives within the Ok-12 schooling area
- Deep data of and demonstrated expertise with Ok-12 schooling matters and knowledge. Specialization in Ok-12 faculty finance and/or administrative- or systems-level areas (e.g., school-, district-, state-, or federal-level degree insurance policies or scholar efficiency) most popular.
- A ardour for utilizing knowledge and knowledge evaluation/science strategies to handle social science questions, particularly with an eye fixed in direction of enhance the Ok-12 schooling panorama for college kids and educators
- Expertise in grant and RFP writing a plus
- Expertise constructing or implementing academic merchandise a plus
- Expertise working in a college or schooling company, particularly in a management place, a plus
Expertise and Skills
- Superior data of statistical methodologies (e.g., linear and logistic regression, hierarchical linear modeling, time-series evaluation, and so forth.), experimental or quasi-experimental designs (e.g., regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, and so forth.) and when to use them
- Familiarity with knowledge science ideas and machine studying strategies (supervised studying, unsupervised studying, optimization, pure language processing) strongly most popular
- Sturdy consideration to element, capability to independently problem-solve, a self-starter angle, a high-quality results-oriented mindset, and a need to proceed to study and develop quantitative/technical expertise
- Fluency in statistical software program and/or programming languages, comparable to R (most popular), Python (most popular), SQL, or Stata. If not already acquainted, a need and skill to study R or Python is strongly most popular.
- Proficiency with model management software program (GitHub most popular) and greatest practices
- Proficiency with undertaking/job administration software program (Jira a plus)
- Translate technical and educational info rapidly and precisely to various audiences
- Hold present with schooling analysis outputs and methodological strategies in academia and business
Compensation & Advantages
Compensation & Advantages
PowerSchool affords the next advantages:
- Complete Insurance coverage Protection (together with Medical, Dental, Imaginative and prescient, Pharmacy advantages, Life Insurance coverage and AD&D)
- Versatile Spending Accounts and Well being Financial savings Accounts
- Brief-Time period Incapacity and Lengthy-Time period Incapacity
- Complete 401(ok) plan
- Beneficiant Parental Depart
- Unrestricted paid break day (often called Discretionary Time Off – DTO)
- Wellness Program, together with ClassPass & Worker Help Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Optionally available Advantages: Pet Insurance coverage, Id Theft Safety, Scholar Debt Reimbursement Program and Pay as you go Authorized protection
An affordable estimate of the bottom compensation vary for this place is $142,700 – $192,500 USD. This compensation vary is restricted to america and it incorporates many components together with however not restricted to an applicant’s expertise and prior related expertise and coaching; licensures, levels, and certifications; particular geographic location; inner fairness; inner pay ranges; and market knowledge/vary parameters.
EEO Dedication
EEO Dedication
PowerSchool is dedicated to a various and inclusive office. PowerSchool is an equal alternative employer and doesn’t discriminate on the premise of race, nationwide origin, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, protected veteran standing, incapacity, age, or different legally protected standing. Our inclusive tradition empowers PowerSchoolers to ship one of the best outcomes for our clients. We not solely have a good time the range of our workforce, we have a good time the varied methods we work. When you’ve got a incapacity and wish an lodging relating to our recruiting course of, please tell us by emailing [email protected].