Sql data analyst Jobs in Houston, TX

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Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 32,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose —college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. KIPP Texas is a team and family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy.

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

The KIPP Texas Finance Team is a high performing department within our School Support Partners

SSP). Our department consists of three teams - Accounting, Business Intelligence, and Financial

Planning & Analysis. This role sits on the Business Intelligence Team. Business Intelligence is a highly agile team within KIPP Texas Public Schools with the purpose to rapidly increase the availability of usable, relevant data to all campus and department stakeholders. Our team’s focus is to equip leaders with the needed data to drive mission-aligned action and best support our students.

THE OPPORTUNITY

KIPP Texas is currently seeking a smart, motivated and experienced data analyst to bring strong problem-solving and analytical skills to a leading charter management organization. KIPP Texas is committed to using data to drive academic, financial, instructional, operational and talent improvement and decision-making. The Data Analyst is critical to KIPP Texas achieving this work. This individual must be as much a people person as a numbers person—collaboration and building strong cross-functional partnerships are necessary to be successful in this role. This position reports to the Senior Manager, Data Strategy Analytics and follows a hybrid schedule (coming to our SSP office in Houston 3 days a week; and work from home 2 days a week). This role is expected to travel to other regions and / or sites 5%-10% of the year.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Analysis & Visualization

• Design, build, and iterate tools and processes that help our organization to make equitable decisions (Note : our current BI tool is Tableau and we will be transitioning to Power BI by August 2026)
• With input from key stakeholders supports in transitioning our reporting from Tableau to Power BI
• Work directly with school administration and organizational leadership across all of our regions (Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio) to ensure tools and processes meet the needs of our end-users
• Test, validate, and evaluate data visualizations for accuracy, performance, and alignment with organization priorities and determine the best data visualization methods to present information
• Collaborate with the Analytics Team to scope end-user requirements and project plan for advanced interactive and dynamic data visualizations to meet functional needs
• Contribute to our internal team’s knowledge management systems, documentation practices, and code review process to ensure that we build and maintain infrastructure sustainably

Data Reporting

Data Strategy

Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

TEAM & CULTURE

Additional Information

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.