ESD -Senior CRISC Business Systems Analyst

ESD 113 learns from and cares for our staff, schools, students, families, and the land, works alongside communities to build pathways that expand opportunity, and acts with collective purpose to advance educational justice.

This position is for a CRISC Senior Business Systems Analyst with experience managing student information.

This is an exempt position, 260 days/year, 8 hours/day.

Benefits include Medical/Vision/Dental Insurance; FSA/DCAP;
Life/AD&D Insurance; LTD Insurance; EAP;
Retirement; DCP;
Annual Leave, Sick Leave Holiday Pay and Personal Leave.

The job of CRISC Senior Business Systems Analyst is done for the purpose/s of providing expert consultation, business process analysis, implementation leadership, training, and ongoing support for information management systems used by school districts. This position partners with districts to optimize the use of student, human resources, payroll, or fiscal management applications through the application of best practices, regulatory requirements, and system expertise.

The Senior Business Systems Analyst ensures business and reporting needs are met in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local policies, regulations, and reporting standards; serves as a liaison with state agencies and software partners as appropriate; and provides advanced subject matter expertise within assigned areas of specialization. As a senior team member, the position contributes to strategic initiatives, mentors colleagues, and supports the successful adoption and effective use of enterprise information systems across participating school districts.

• Administer district database system (e.g. security setup, policy and standards, account creations, modifications, and deletions, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring optimal database usability.
• Analyze a wide variety of information sources for the purpose of identifying discrepancies, issues, trends, or recommendations ensuring data integrity in data management practices.
• Collaborate with a variety of groups and individuals (e.g. other ISC team members, departments, staff teams from individual school districts, WSIPC, etc.) for the purpose of sharing relevant information, creatively solving problems, making recommendations and identifying opportunities to enhance services.
• Contribute to a variety of state-side groups and committees (e.g. WSIPC network, data centers, state agencies, professional organizations, user conferences, etc.) for the purpose of representing Capital Region ESD 113 in information management leadership and keeping informed of evolving statutory requirements, regulations, and system functionality.
• Coordinate installation, maintenance, and other operational technical support with WSIPC or other software partners responsible for installing hardware and software systems for the purpose of providing up-to-date, functional, and highly performing applications to districts.
• Create training curricula (e.g. tutorials, workshops, labs, ongoing learning opportunities, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring that systemic and related regulatory training needs of district clients are met.
• Define software application requirements and may champion its development (e.g. use cases, features, etc.) for the purpose of enhancing the functionality of the information management systems.
• Design, build, and test new or modified modules, features, imports/exports, and reports of the Skyward applications (e.g. screens, custom data fields, application behavior, automated workflows, HTML code, report templates, data mapping for imports, etc.) for the purpose of customizing the application's functionality to meet individual school district practices.
• Develop a variety of systems tools (e.g. complex data sets, etc.) for the purpose of meeting the analysis and reporting needs of the districts.
• Facilitate agreement or other resolutions to completing district data management needs for the purpose of ensuring consistent or best practice regional and state data management practices.
• Fulfill contracted business services (e.g. reports, budget, year-end, human resource, payroll, and accounts payable, etc.) for the purpose of managing operations on behalf of the school district.
• Mentor and cross-train other team members for the purpose of ensuring high standards of services and ongoing team member support.
• Monitor a variety of processes and procedures (e.g. district data transmission, district client service needs, etc.) for the purpose of…