Why Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
We come from humble beginnings — picture a one-person organization created in 1949 to advocate for excellence in public education on behalf of Texas school board members. Flash forward to today, and we have over 500 employees working together to provide 1,024 school districts with purposeful resources so they can focus on what matters most — excellent and equitable education for all 5.4 million Texas students.
We feel privileged to work alongside talented team-members who are passionate about education and enjoy learning from new and different perspectives. And our passion for education and learning doesn’t end there. Our culture has always encouraged employees to grow and become their best selves both professionally and personally through a variety of innovative and collaborative development opportunities. You’re likely beginning to see why we’ve been regularly named by Austin Business Journal as a Top Ten Best Places to Work!
TASB offers competitive pay, rich benefits (including retirement matching of 2:1 up to 5% after one year. This means that if you contribute 5% to the plan, TASB will contribute 10%), onsite daycare, onsite gym, wellness program, tuition reimbursement, remote work options, flexible schedules, and more.
Every role at TASB thoughtfully complements our mission and the educational impact being made in communities across Texas. If you consider your work exceptional and want to help drive our mission forward, keep reading!
About You
As a Sr. Data Analyst in the Department of Planning & Research, you will help TASB teams make sound, data-driven decisions by providing actionable data in the form of dashboards, survey results, and reports. You will help support the implementation of TASB’s 5-year strategic plan by building and maintaining systems for progress monitoring and reporting. You will help cultivate new data sources and develop innovative reports that are aligned to TASB’s mission: To promote educational excellence for Texas schoolchildren through the advancement of good governance, valuable learning experiences for school leaders, and public school advocacy. We also provide high-quality services and programs to school districts — helping them operate more efficiently and effectively.
This is an Austin-based hybrid position, requiring successful candidate to work at our North Austin headquarters at least 2 days a week.
A Typical Day
- Create clear data visualizations—including tables, charts, dashboards, and written summaries—to communicate complex information to various audiences.
- Assist TASB divisions with developing and administering forms, feedback tools, and stakeholder surveys, including the TASB Survey Calendar.
- Conduct targeted analysis of ISD public documents (e.g., board agendas, minutes, check registers) and build queries and dashboards to aid stakeholders in analyzing the results.
- Support implementation of TASB’s Strategic Plan by designing dashboards and portfolios, monitoring progress updates, and ensuring supporting systems and documentation remain aligned and current.
- Use Asana to plan and monitor project deliverables, tasks, responsible parties, and due dates.
- Serve as lead analyst on one or more projects that support the organization, such as the Organization Scorecard, the TASB Member Survey, or the TASB Survey Calendar.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Collaborate closely with service areas to ensure timely and efficient data is provided to help innovate service and drive organizational goals.
- Help move the work of TASB's strategic plan forward.
- Develop new data sources and innovative reports for both TASB staff and TASB member districts.
Skills For Success
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree (required)/ Master's degree (preferred) in education, business analytics, data science, mathematics, computer science, or a closely related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, or a similar position
- Experience with student, school, district, or state education data.
- Experience using project management software to manage projects, due dates, and deliverables.
- Experience with strategic planning, including building dashboards and reports to aid in progress monitoring.
- Experience with designing an deploying surveys.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Skilled in Power BI or Tableau for data transformation, visualization, dashboard design, and basic DAX and data modeling.
- killed in SQL, including writing queries to extract, filter, and join data, performing aggregations and transformations, optimizing query performance, and supporting dashboards development and data validation.
- Skilled in designing dynamic surveys using advanced features (e.g., branching, piping), customizing layouts, integrating with third-party tools, and automating actions and reporting.
- Skills in Excel for managing worksheets, applying formulas (e.g., IF, VLOOKUP), creating pivot tables and charts, and performing basic data analysis and formatting.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, due dates, and deliverables.
- Effective communication skills (interpersonal, oral and written).
- Meticulous attention to detail and data accuracy.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of multiple cross-collaborative teams.
The TASB Difference
- Enjoy competitive pay and rich benefit offerings.
- Be part of a collaborative environment where every contribution impacts Texas public schoolchildren.
- Thrive in a culture that promotes bringing your whole self to work every day and emphasizes healthy boundaries and work-life balance.
- Learn and grow individually and together through frequent professional development; diversity, equity, and inclusion panels; wellness seminars; and more.
- Work alongside transparent leaders with an open and consistent feedback approach.
- Celebrate as a team with meaningful (and fun) events and tokens of appreciation throughout the year.
Posting Notices
- The health and safety of our employees and members, is our top priority.
- The Association is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an individual based on any of the following personal characteristics protected by law: race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including in relation to marital status, pregnancy, pay, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability, genetics or veteran status.
- This position does not qualify for visa sponsorship.
- Any job offer is contingent upon receipt of results of a satisfactory background check.
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