Associate, Data Analytics | Research, Data Insights Team

Associate, Data Analytics | Research, Data, & Insights Team

Good Reason Houston exists to ensure that every child, in every neighborhood of Houston, has access to a world-class public education and the opportunity to thrive in the Houston of tomorrow. From a child’s first day of Pre‑K to their first day on the job, we work to make sure every student is prepared for success in school, career, and life.

Anchored in a cradle‑to‑career vision, Good Reason Houston is driven by a bold North Star Goal: to double the rate of public school graduates earning a living wage by 2040, positioning economic mobility as the ultimate measure of student success. Achieving this goal requires collaboration across sectors, and Good Reason Houston serves as Houston’s regional education backbone, uniting public school systems, higher education institutions, employers, and civic leaders around a shared vision for student success.

Good Reason Houston builds awareness of, advocates for, and advises school systems on measures aimed to improve the quality of education available to all. Today the organization partners with 25 public school systems that collectively serve 700,000 students across 900 public schools in the Houston region. We seek to cultivate a shared regional vision for educational quality, to build the capacity for change required within districts and the greater Houston community, and to foster collective ownership to support student‑level results for kids across our city.

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The Associate, Data Analytics ensures that Good Reason Houston’s efforts are shaped and sharpened by insights from rigorous data analysis, and that insights can be shared across the community to accelerate and amplify our impact. This role will report to the Director, Research & Data Strategy and work with other functional teams as needed.

The Associate, Data Analytics will serve as a front line data analyst and data manager. Following data documentation and structuring best practices, as well as internal team expectations, the Associate is responsible for data collection, compilation, cleaning, and maintenance. In collaboration with the Managers, Research & Data, the Associate will maintain our database and create data dashboards. Subsequently, this role ensures that all Good Reason Houston work streams have access to high quality, accurate data to support data‑driven decision‑making.

The ideal candidate is a proactive problem solver with strong attention to detail and is passionate about sustaining data excellence at an organization focused on improving outcomes for every child in the Houston region. The candidate should be interested in gaining exposure to all elements of quantitative research, including quantitative data collection and analysis and data hygiene in a fast‑paced, nonprofit environment.

This is a full‑time, non‑exempt position.

• Support execution of organization‑wide research agenda through data cleaning and management
• Collaborate with internal team to ensure data can appropriately answer desired research questions
• Work with Managers, Research & Data to clean, structure, and store data according to internal procedures and industry best practices
• Perform recurring and ad hoc quantitative data analysis that maximizes Good Reason Houston’s impact and aligns with strategic and external affairs objectives
• Leverage existing data sources to address primary and secondary research questions, including large administrative datasets
• Execute on new research projects aligned with Good Reason Houston’s mission and vision
• Develop expertise on publicly available state‑and national‑data sources on education
• Develop expertise on relevant research topics and methods

• Support internal team to surface insights from data analyses and create compelling visualizations, dashboards, presentations, blogs, memos, and reports that communicate key insights to various audiences, including district and elected leaders, school‑based leaders and staff, parents, community organizations, and funders
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