Educational Data and Systems Manager

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Lakeville Area Schools has a Educational Data and Systems Manager position available.

This position is a 261 days per year 8 hours a day position.

Salary: $110,000 - $115,000 depending on experience

POSITION SUMMARY: Educational Data and Systems Manager provides district wide leadership for the effective, equitable, and responsible use of student data to improve teaching, learning, student support, program implementation, and continuous improvement. The position leads the interpretation of educational data and determines how it should be represented and communicated for different audiences; builds the data literacy of staff and leaders; establishes coherent data practices, measures, and inquiry routines;

and ensures that educators and decision-makers have timely, accurate, understandable, and actionable information. The Educational Data and Systems Manager also provides strategic oversight of user-facing student data systems and operational workflows, serves as the bridge between educational priorities and technical implementation, partners closely with the District Assessment Coordinator (DAC) and technical data analytics staff, and serves as the district's backup DAC.

The essential functions of this position may include, but are not limited to, the following fundamental duties:

• Provide district wide leadership for educational data strategy, aligning measures, reports, inquiry practices, and system priorities with the district strategic plan, instructional priorities, student-support goals, and continuous-improvement processes.
• Establish and communicate common expectations for how district and school teams access, interpret, visualize, discuss, and act on student data.
• Lead cross-functional teams in defining key measures, success indicators, data definitions, and evidence needs for district initiatives and specialized programs.
• Advise district and school leaders on appropriate data sources, analytical approaches, limitations, and implications for policy, resource allocation, program design, and improvement planning.
• Facilitate coherent data-review and inquiry cycles that move teams from information to well-supported questions, decisions, actions, and progress monitoring.

• Provide functional leadership and strategic oversight for district student data systems and applications, including Edu Climber, Infinite Campus gradebook and assessment structures, Fast Bridge, CAPTI, Class Link-connected applications, and other assigned educational data tools; complete or coordinate configuration work as appropriate.
• Manage annual system cycles, including school-year rollovers, data-entry windows, benchmarks, smart forms, thresholds, tags, permission groups, rosters, archives, and other recurring configurations.
• Maintain role-based access and user permissions in collaboration with program leaders and technology staff, ensuring that staff have appropriate access based on job responsibilities.
• Set priorities and coordinate with technology staff and vendors to resolve system issues and improve the usability, accessibility, interoperability, and reliability of district data tools.

• Design and maintain standardized workflows for collecting, transferring, validating, storing, archiving, and reporting student data across district systems and programs.
• Conduct routine data validation and quality checks; identify inconsistencies, determine likely sources, and coordinate timely corrections with the appropriate system or program owner.
• Develop and maintain annual operating calendars, standard operating procedures, system configuration records, process maps, training resources, and other documentation necessary for continuity and consistent implementation.
• Lead and support district data-governance practices, including common definitions, data ownership, quality standards, responsible access, retention, privacy, and compliance with FERPA and applicable state and federal requirements.

• Organize and prepare post-assessment data so teachers, school…