Director of Data Leadership Save

OUR COMMUNITY

We live in a world where division, disparity, and poverty affect everyone. When we unite as changemakers at Greater Twin Cities United Way we can disrupt systems, unlock human potential, change narratives, create equitable solutions, and advocate for policies that result in lasting change.

As an interconnected community focused on equity and inclusion, we can draw from our best minds, courageous leaders, responsive services and collaborative partnerships, and bring forth working solutions to shape our future together.

Your Department: Education Partnerships Coalition of Minnesota (EPC), GTCUW fiscal sponsee

Your Role in Participating: EPC Director of Data Leadership

Your Reporting Manager: John Fanning, EPC Project Director

Greater Twin Cities United Way Remote Work Policyrequires 20% in-office work; if the candidate is located outside of the Twin Cities, we can discuss options to work at one of our other EPC member organization sites or another location.

OUR ORGANIZATION

The Education Partnerships Coalition of Minnesota (EPC) leverages the collective power of nine cradle-to-career, education-to-workforce, community-based member organizations across the state of Minnesota. EPC member organizations are all members of the StriveTogether national network.

Our core work is supporting local, regional, and state-wide advocacy and action to improve systems so that they better support children, youth, and families – especially those experiencing poverty, facing racism, or otherwise marginalized – in achieving sustained upward economic mobility.

We work in deep collaboration with elected officials and other leaders, public agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, youth and parent/caregiver advocates, and others toward a future where Minnesotans’ income, wealth, place, and race are not determinants of their life outcomes and well-being.

Our mission is to unite Minnesota cradle-to-career community initiatives to ensure all children and youth succeed.

Our vision is:

• Our children succeed in school and in life.
• Our communities thrive.
• Our state is equitable and prosperous for ALL.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF YOUR ROLE

The Director of Data Leadership, forging a path for this newly created position, scopes and drives work toward two primary purposes. First, the Director collaborates deeply in and with communities to help them better utilize available and requestable state education-to-workforce data. Second, the Director convenes and facilitates one or more cross-sector education-to-workforce task forces (at the outset) and ongoing communities of practice (at a later time) in order to identify and address gaps in our statewide integrated education-to-workforce data systems.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

The Director is responsible for driving systemic change through these primary activities:

• (50%) Provide technical assistance to communities to do the following: access state data, add their own data into the mix, make meaning of multiple data sets, identify gaps in outcomes and opportunities, and use data to better understand the root causes of those gaps, with the goal of improving systems to produce better and more equitable education-to-workforce experiences and outcomes. Create products and services to standardize this work. Bring feedback from community members to data holders and decision-makers. Align with equity principles, offering additional support to communities with less technical expertise and/or fewer resources to support the use of data and technology. Listen to and learn from our community partners.
• (20%) Create and convene one or more cross-sector working groups to inform this work and to create a priority list of improvements and upgrades to Minnesota’s existing integrated education-to-workforce data infrastructure, to be presented to funders and/or elected officials.
• (10%) Be a connector for our organization and this work, ensuring that we are leveraging available networks (examples: state agency partners, elected officials, funders, the business community, etc.) and making connections with the leaders and champions of related areas of work.
• (10%) Be the public face of our organization and this work in a variety of local, regional, state, and national settings, and proactively connect, collaborate, and learn with peers leading related best-practice work.
• (10%) Tend to your field learning, skill development, and planning and reflection needs in order to maximize your positive impact.

DESIRED PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

• Minimum ten years prior experience, preferably serving as a manager, director, or senior team member in a successful organization in the education, public, and/or nonprofit sectors
• Bachelor’s Degree, with advanced degree preferred
• Extensive experience in Google Suite and Microsoft Suite, including Power BI
• Extensive experience with longitudinal, state-wide data sets and systems
• Extensive experience working in and with communities impacted by poverty and/or racism, and supporting them toward upward economic mobility and increased levels of self-determination
• Engagement with a broad network of professional peers working in cradle-to-career or education-to-workforce spaces
• Experience with critical organizational functions including strategic planning, fiscal management, program management, project management, and public relations
• Key competencies include: ensure accountability, be action oriented, drive engagement, drive results, build networks, instill trust, employ a strong customer focus, leverage interpersonal savvy, leverage organizational savvy, leverage tech savvy, manage ambiguity, and manage complexity.

HOW TO APPLY

We welcome applications from all candidates from a diverse variety of lived and work experiences who see this as a great-fit next opportunity. We know that few if any candidates will bring all that we have listed here.

Please forward your resume to [email protected].

We will begin reviewing applications immediately with the goal to complete this process within 6 weeks of the posting date.

OUR COMMITMENT

We commit to an open, fair, and transparent process. Those invited to interview will receive a thorough description of our process, including how we will make decisions, and will have the opportunity to ask questions.