Business Data Analyst

Our mission is the advancement of public education in New Jersey

JOB TITLE:
Business Data Analyst

Legal, Labor Relations, and Policy

TERMS:
Full-time

SALARY GRADE: 7

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Provide Labor Relations information and assistance to school boards, attorneys, and staff, including data services, analyzing salary guides, and labor relations research.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as project manager and oversee the Negotiations Data Portal and produce ongoing data and periodic analysis updates throughout the year.
• Track status of collective negotiations for teachers for nearly 600 school districts and collect agreements and settlement information via surveys, emails, and phone calls.
• Analyze negotiated teachers agreements for miscellaneous provisions and salary guide data.
• Enter analyzed items into the database and maintain historical data tables.
• Formulate statistical data for Association publications, contract negotiations, salary, and work stoppage areas. Compose and generate a variety of comparative data reports for training programs as well as specialized reports for board members, administrators, attorneys, and staff.
• Conduct research on contract language, comparability data and other areas of labor relations and personnel.
• Import data annually from the Department of Education on administrators salaries and benefits and maintain an internal database. Develop and produce salary reports for superintendent searches.
• Provide information to local board members, administrative personnel, and Association staff on labor relations matters.
• Develop Labor and Data presentations and present at Association programs including in-person, hybrid and virtual as assigned. These presentations include, but are not limited to, County School Board Meetings, Workshop, Labor Summit, Spring Symposium, PAA Meetings, School Law Forum, In-district Presentations, Mandated Training and Legal Labor and Policy Presentations.
• Analyze and construct salary guides for local boards of education.
• Maintain all project databases, including the creation of new database(s), and any required modification of existing databases and their related tables, queries, and reports.
• Developing and maintaining services for the Personnel Administrators Association (PAA) affiliate group.
• Attend regular Professional Development training to remain current on labor relations topics, trends and union-management relations processes and procedures. (e.g. LERA, NJICLE, SHRM).
• Formulate statistical charts.
• Write articles for Association publications including regular standing School Board Notes and School Leader articles as well as timely topical articles with short turn around requirements.
• Maintain and continuously update information and data on the legal and labor relations page of the website and develop new resources as needed
• Manage the wellness check submission process for contract wellness checks and salary guide wellness checks.
• Provide support as needed to association projects or events such as the Spring Symposium, Workshop, and Delegates Assembly.
• Identify and import other data sources.
• Create and develop surveys.
• Summarize contract provisions.
• Maintain negotiations status logs.
• Monitor labor trends and labor law.
• Available to work evenings and weekends as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum two years experience working with database maintenance and development as well as statistical analysis preferred
• Knowledge of public education and school board governance; public sector labor relations and research preferred.
• Experience in public speaking and presenting to small, medium and large groups preferred.
• Knowledge of virtual platforms like Zoom,Swoogo, Google meet, etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 Apps including Teams, Lists, SharePoint, One Drive, Forms and traditional Office Apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

PREFERRED

• Experience with Association Management System software

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Organization skills, time management, planning and research skills. Must be a team player and possess interpersonal skills to work with a variety of individuals.…