Job Description

Part-time Analyst

Flexible Location

This position is based in a home office anywhere in the U.S. (with a possible preference for specific states or region based on our portfolio of work).

WHO WE ARE

TNTP brings research, policy, and consulting together to reimagine America’s public education system. Working collaboratively, we dig into educators’ toughest challenges, and we provide actionable solutions grounded in evidence. This work takes place in schools and districts across the country, and our national position allows us to spot trends, collect and analyze data, and advocate for policy changes that introduce greater impact at scale. Our goal is to empower every student, breaking them free from the constraints of poverty and race, fostering innovation, and driving growth across the country. We collaborate across sectors and with school systems to ensure that the 3.5 million young people who graduate high school every year have pathways to economic and social mobility.  

Staff in TNTP's Consulting Division work alongside teachers, school leaders, districts, and states to help them achieve their goals for students. We work to help educators, schools, and school systems expand access to opportunities for students. We’re focused on ensuring the work of our public education systems create pathways for students, especially those experiencing poverty, to achieve social and economic mobility.

Part-time staff are hourly, part-time, and at-will employees who work on a project-based, intermittent basis and are managed centrally by the Workforce team. They may work up to 25 hours per week across all projects and are subject to overtime rates and are not eligible for most TNTP benefits. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Part-time Analyst, you’ll inform the direction of our projects and our organization by drawing insights from data to identify trends, needs, and opportunities. You’ll analyze results to determine what’s working and what needs to change. An Analyst’s work changes over time, based on the stage of each project and team that they’re assigned to. There’s not a single typical project which keeps things fresh. Here are examples of the types of work our Analysts do: 

• Use your analytic expertise to support project teams to set goals, create research & project plans, collect data, and determine metrics for projects’ success. 

• Tell a meaningful story about research findings, complete with participant feedback and compelling data visualizations. 

• Lead project team efforts to analyze teacher workforce data, interpret findings, and craft recommendations for leaders to inform a district’s talent strategy. 

• Design, launch, manage, and analyze Qualtrics surveys of stakeholder groups (including teachers, administrators, and students). 

• Use the tidy verse packages in the R programming language to clean and analyze assignment quality data and create a presentation to support a school district tracking progress towards their goal of providing access to grade-appropriate assignments. 

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• Advise clients and/or TNTP leadership on how we can set up an initiative such that, when it ends, we’ll have the data we need to evaluate its success. 

• Create a dashboard on Looker Studio, Tableau, or Salesforce with fundraising or business development data to inform our organizational growth strategy.  

• Participate in TNTP’s data team, including reviewing colleagues’ code, workshopping together, sharing breakthroughs, and fostering a data culture across TNTP to improve equitable decision-making. 

• Engage in other aspects of TNTP’s tremendously varied work: embrace an opportunity to conduct a school visit, learn about best practices in instruction for multilingual learners, or find community in an employee affinity group. 

WHAT YOU HAVE

Qualifications: 

• Good data sense / numeracy: you notice when the Ns don’t look right and realize the implications of using a weighted mean versus a straight average of subgroup averages. 

• You should have proficiency with these technical skills, although the right candidate can pick up others on the job: 

• Writing code to analyze data. We require the use of R but recognize that you may currently code in Stata, SAS, SQL, SPSS, Python, Google Suite programs, Tableau, or Excel. We can build your capacity to program in R and RStudio if you’re comfortable with programming in another language and are driven to learn new analysis techniques and technology.  

• Working reproducibly (so that colleagues can follow and extend your work). 

• Applying your sense of data mastery to determine the right tool for each job such as choosing the most appropriate survey platform, R package, qualitative or quantitative summary, or visualization. 

• Performing and interpreting fundamental statistical analyses (summary statistics, correlation, linear regression).  

• Experience with Salesforce reporting is preferred for some of our Analyst roles.  

• Strong written and oral communication skills. 

• Ability to work efficiently amidst competing priorities. 

• Comfort with receiving and sharing constructive feedback. 

• Desire to grow as a people manager. While not common, depending on your team, you may be responsible for aligning project workplans and analysis with a data manager (supervisee). 

• Curiosity about topics in K-12 education. It helps if you have a background in education (preferred). It’s okay if you don’t, but you should be excited to quickly immerse yourself (as we find it’s hard to do good analysis without understanding the context). Topics may include high quality instructional materials, teacher training, talent pipelines, quality instruction, leadership development, school district policy. 

Competencies:

• A passion for getting better at analysis. It’s rare that anyone comes in with across-the-board mastery, and you should plan on intentionally growing your skills while here to fill out your toolkit. You know at least one programming language, feel comfortable summarizing data, and have a knack for directing your own learning.
• Superlative attention to detail.  Our work, and our clients’ actions, rest on the bedrock of our analysts’ results. We’ll count on you to surface and resolve issues along the way, as the integrity of your final product must be unquestionable.
• A healthy sense of skepticism… You’ll evaluate the relative merits of different approaches, hold the line on what we can conclude when results are mixed or unclear, and ensure your time is being spent in the right places.
• … balanced by practical optimism.  We move quickly. In our work, it’s often the case that even limited findings represent an improvement, and our analysts must be comfortable with ambiguity.  
• An ability to develop and deliver crisp, clean messages. Whether in writing or on the phone, your communications are clear, articulate and concise. You understand your audience and can explain complex information and data to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• An interest in building relationships. You’ll regularly partner with internal and external clients. You have an ability to connect and build relationships with diverse communities and both technical/nontechnical audiences. Bilingual abilities are a plus.
• An equity mindset. Be able to look at data with an equity mindset, understanding the implications for how your data approach influences recommendations for students from marginalized backgrounds.

WHAT WE OFFER

TNTP offers a competitive hourly wage commensurate with experience in a similar position. The hourly pay range for this position is $38.02 - $57.04 per hour. TNTP offers a motivated team of dynamic colleagues, a collegial atmosphere that values professional development and valuable feedback, and the chance to impact the direction of a growing, mission-driven company that is committed to the success of our nation’s children. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work each day.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status, or any other protected category.

We encourage those with the following identities to apply: Black, Latinx, Asian American, and Pacific Islander, Indigenous people, LGBTQIA+ and non-binary people, veterans, people living with disabilities, and others with lived experience being part of marginalized communities. We value the power of multilingualism and encourage multilingual candidates to apply.

HOW TO APPLY

Our application process is simple. In addition to submitting your resume, we also would like for you to share why you are interested in TNTP and how your experience has prepared you for this position. Please submit your application online through Workday.

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TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, arrest record, conviction record, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy covers all programs, services, policies, and procedures of TNTP, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, and administering all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs or terminations.  

Applicants for employment with TNTP must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.