Program Director – Data Strategy, Policy & Advocacy

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🌾 Iowa – Remote

🌾 Iowa – Remote

💵 $115k - $130k / year

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ACT

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1959

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $30k Grant - ACT on 2022-01

Education • Non-profit

ACT is a nonprofit organization that administers the ACT college admissions test and provides K–12 and workforce assessments, test prep, college- and career-planning resources, and related online services. It offers paper and computer-based testing, accommodations, score reporting, research for educators and institutions, and tools aimed at helping students prepare for college and career success.

📋 Description

• Embed data-driven decision-making across ACT’s Government and Public Relations team and serve as a strategic thought partner to ACT leadership and customers. • Support leadership in using data to inform strategic planning and resource allocation. • Design and maintain data tools, dashboards, presentations, and visualizations that make key metrics accessible and actionable for internal and external stakeholders. • Proactively identify research questions and analytic opportunities aligned with ACT’s policy priorities. • Create feedback loops between research findings, program design, and partnership strategy. • Provide capacity-building support to colleagues: training staff on data tools, analytic frameworks, and evidence-based practices. • Maintain a pulse on external data trends, policy developments, and methodological advances relevant to ACT’s work. • Generate rigorous, policy-relevant analyses that inform ACT’s positions and contribute to national conversations about education equity, assessment, and college and career readiness. • Provide strategic input to inform quantitative and mixed-methods research studies to answer high-priority policy questions. • Conduct literature reviews and synthesize research on education policy topics, presenting findings in actionable formats for policy and program staff. • Analyze large-scale education datasets (assessment results, demographic trends, program outcomes) to identify patterns and inform strategic recommendations. • Develop and operationalize metrics and frameworks for evaluating policy-relevant outcomes. • Incorporate equity analysis to understand disparities in outcomes across student populations. • Identify relevant external data sources (federal, state, institutional) and build efficient workflows for data acquisition and management. • Translate complex analyses into clear written products (briefs, memos, reports) for non-technical audiences including policymakers and funders. • Design and implement data-sharing partnerships that build an evidence base for ACT programs, partnerships, and policy initiatives. • Systematize data-sharing agreements and data collection workflows with external partners (districts, states, institutions). • Support the development of reporting templates that can scale across partner engagements. • Analyze variation in stakeholder contexts and identify conditions associated with strong outcomes. • Support the development of clear metrics that define and operationalize success for ACT programs and partnerships. • Generate impact reports that translate research findings into actionable insights for internal teams and external stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience using data and analysis at the district or state level to inform decision-making in education, government, nonprofit, or social impact contexts, including demonstrated experience working with education data, advising senior leaders and shaping organizational strategy • Strong quantitative analysis skills • Familiarity with educational research designs and methods • Experience producing external-facing policy reports, case studies, or thought leadership • Experience building dashboards and other data visualizations, e.g. Tableau, MS Power BI or similar software • Experience designing surveys, analyzing assessment data, or evaluating programs or policies • Ability to translate complex data and analyses into clear written reports and presentations for non-technical audiences • Proven project management skills and ability to independently lead and manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously, with minimal oversight • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Demonstrated commitment to improving educational outcomes and advancing equity • Ability to Travel approximately 10-15% • Bachelor's degree in education policy, public policy, economics, statistics, data science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Company paid life insurance • Medical, dental, vision • Flexible health and dependent spending accounts • 401(k) retirement savings with company match • Paid holidays • Paid time off