Location: Hattie Mae White
Department: Curriulum Ops & Success - ES
Area:Northwest
Contract Months:12
Salary Range: $85,000.00 - $105,000.00
JOB SUMMARY
The Data Dashboard Coordinator is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining interactive data dashboards to enable data-driven decision-making across the district. This role involves collaborating with various teams to gather requirements, ensuring accurate data representation, and providing insights through visual analytics.
MAJOR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and gather dashboard requirements. Translate these needs into technical specifications to ensure dashboards effectively support decision-making and reporting across the district.
2. Employ an iterative data modeling approach within Power BI, binding data from various sources. Focus on creating efficient, scalable models that serve as the foundation for insightful dashboards.
3. Utilize Power Query within Power BI for extensive data preparation tasks. Clean, transform, and structure data to meet the requirements of complex data modeling and dashboarding efforts.
MAJOR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES CONTINUED
4. Design and develop comprehensive data dashboards in Power BI. Ensure dashboards are intuitive, visually appealing, and accurately represent data insights to meet diverse stakeholder needs.
5. Lead project scoping processes, defining objectives, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements. Responsible for guiding project progress, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope.
6. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree
*Applicants who do not meet these education qualifications may be considered if they have a unique combination of education and work experiences that indicate potential for success in this role.
WORK EXPERIENCE
At least 5 years working in the district/central office of a large urban school district
*Applicants who do not meet these work experience qualifications may be considered if they have a unique combination of education and work experiences that indicate potential for success in this role.
SKILL AND/OR REQUIRED LICENSING/CERTIFICATION
Microsoft Office
LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
Work Leadership. Regularly provides project management or team leadership to a group of two or more employees but does not have formal supervisory responsibility. Leading and directing is restricted to monitoring work and providing guidance on escalated issues. Most of work time is spent performing many of the same duties they are leading.
WORK COMPLEXITY/INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT
Work is substantially complex, varied and regularly requires the selection and application of technical and detailed guidelines. Independent judgment is required to identify, select, and apply the most appropriate methods as well as interpret precedent. Position regularly makes recommendations to management on areas of significance to the department. Supervision received typically consists of providing direction on the more complex projects and new job duties and priorities.
BUDGET AUTHORITY
Compiles and organizes data and figures.
PROBLEM SOLVING
Decisions are made with greater freedom and discretion, including recommendations that are subject to approval on matters that may affect multiple departments across HISD. Job is frequently expected to recommend new solutions to problems, to improve existing methods/procedures/services and generate new ideas. May also review decisions made by other individuals on more routine matters.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS
Decisions have considerable impact to multiple divisions or the organization causing risks or improvements to relationships, significant efficiencies, or delays in operations, and/or significant financial gains or expenses.
Errors are serious and difficult to discover, normally involve decisions not subject to detailed review and will result in excessive costs and/or significant project delays.
COMMUNICATION/INTERACTIONS
Collaborate and solve problems - works with others to resolve problems, clarify or interpret complex information/policies, and provide initial screening/negotiations without approval authority. Interactions are typically with customers, senior level professional staff, and managers.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS
Leads others in the resolution of highly sensitive and confidential issues on behalf of the department. Acts as a trusted advisor and becomes involved in the customer's decision-making process including presenting alternatives and information and applying persuasion and negotiation skills in the resolution of problems.
Monitors customer service standards.
WORKING/ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
Work is normally performed in a typical interior work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements.
Ability to carry and/or lift less than 15 pounds.
Houston Independent School District is an equal opportunity employer.