City Fund
Data Director
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $190K
💻 Data Science
🗓️ December 11th, 2025
BigQuery
K-12
Looker
Edtech.com's Summary
City Fund is hiring a Data Director to lead its data systems, analytics, and reporting strategy. The role involves building and optimizing data infrastructure, ensuring accurate and accessible data to drive decision-making, and translating complex data into insights for board members, funders, and partners to support educational equity initiatives.
Highlights
- Lead design and maintenance of data systems and governance for tracking organizational progress.
- Manage internal growth forecasting tools and continuously improve data processes.
- Produce annual reports, interactive dashboards, and manage the organization's external reporting.
- Translate complex data into visualizations and presentations for diverse stakeholders.
- Oversee vendor relationships and coordinate data consistency across partners.
- Require 7+ years in data management, strong SQL skills, and experience with modern warehouses such as BigQuery.
- Proficiency in data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.
- Preferred experience in education sector data systems and board/funder reporting.
- Salary is $190,000 with 100% employer-paid health insurance, 5% 401K match, and 6 months parental leave.
- Commitment to educational equity and ability to manage projects, people, and vendors effectively.
Data Director Full Description
Data Director
Remote
Full time
Full time
Description
WHAT WE DO
In the United States, too few students can access effective, high-performing public schools. At City Fund, we work to increase educational opportunities for students and families by partnering with city and state leaders to create innovative public school systems. We believe that public schools do best when educators have the power to make decisions that meet the diverse needs of their students, families are provided the information and access to choose the best schools for their children, and schools are held accountable for helping all students succeed.
City Fund provides financial support and expertise to local leaders seeking to improve educational opportunities in their cities. We support 23 cities across the country and hope to eventually reach most American cities. We focus on supporting:
- High quality, innovative K-12 schools with nonprofit governing structures and diverse leadership
- City leaders, including civic leaders and nonprofits that are working to build innovative public education systems and reflect the students and families they serve
- Advocacy organizations that build the political power of families to shape education in ways that work for them
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're seeking an exceptional Data Director to lead our data systems, analytics, and reporting strategy. In this role, you'll build upon and optimize our data infrastructure—ensuring we have accurate, accessible information to drive decision-making and demonstrate impact across our education portfolio. You'll translate complex data into compelling stories for board members, funders, and partners while building systems that support organizational learning and growth. You’ll work in close partnership with the VP of Learning and Evaluation and the VP of Seats and Strategy to ensure we have the data we need to measure our progress to goals, inform our strategic decisions, and drive our learning agenda.
This is an opportunity to shape how a mission-driven organization uses data to expand educational opportunity and improve outcomes for students across cities and states. We are looking for a detail-oriented professional with deep experience in data systems, database management, and visualization tools. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker who can build durable and scalable data assets, document them clearly, and empower others to make use of them.
Requirements
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Data Systems & Infrastructure (40%)
- Design and maintain a coherent, well-documented data system for tracking organizational progress to goals
- Establish and document data governance rules for all information collected and housed in a cloud-based data warehouse, including metric definition, quality assurance protocols, accuracy validation, data suppression handling, and imputation standards
- Define and maintain organizational criteria and rules for data related to students, schools, cities, and the overall portfolio across multiple geographies
- Oversee and continue to improve internal school growth forecasting tools to ensure our projections are accurate, current, and properly archived on an annual cycle
- Continuously improve data tools, processes, and systems based on stakeholder feedback
- Hire and manage a Database Manager to ensure that all data is accurate, follows our internal reporting rules, and is up to date.
Progress Monitoring & Reporting (30%)
- Build and maintain the organization's single source of truth for external reporting
- Produce annual data reports for key funders and partners
- Lead the annual Results Review process for internal progress monitoring and board reporting
- Develop a prioritization framework for managing ad-hoc data requests from funders, leadership, partners, and cities
- Produce annual portfolio reporting for key funders and partners
- Create and maintain interactive dashboards visualizing progress toward goals across cities, including enrollment, demographics, and student proficiency
Data Translation & Strategic Support (20%)
- Compile and analyze data and create compelling visualizations and materials to inform organizational strategy decisions
- Develop tables, graphs, and presentations that translate complex data for diverse audiences including board members, prospective funders, and grantees
Stakeholder & Vendor Management (10%)
- Manage relationships and contracts with data systems vendors
- Investigate new pathways for accessing key data more quickly, cheaply, and accurately
- Coordinate with partners to ensure data consistency and alignment across organizations
QUALIFICATIONS
Key Competencies
- Systems Thinking: Ability to design data infrastructure that serves multiple organizational needs
- Attention to Detail: Commitment to data accuracy and quality control
- Collaboration: Proven ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Problem-Solving: Creative approach to technical challenges and data limitations
- Communication: Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
- Project and People Management: Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, people, and vendors to reach goals
Required experience
- 7+ years of experience in data management, analytics, or business intelligence roles
- Demonstrated ability to establish data governance frameworks and documentation standards
- Proven expertise with modern data warehouse systems (BigQuery experience strongly preferred)
- Strong SQL skills and experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar)
- Track record of translating complex data into actionable insights for non-technical audiences
- Experience managing external vendors and cross-organizational partnerships
- Excellent project management skills with ability to balance competing priorities
- Commitment to educational equity and improving outcomes for students
Preferred
- Experience in the education sector, particularly K-12 or education philanthropy
- Familiarity with education data systems and student outcome metrics
- Experience supporting board-level and funder reporting
- Experience with statistical analysis methods or ability to manage a highly technical direct report
Benefits
WHAT YOU GET
City Fund is committed to creating and maintaining a total rewards system that supports our ability to recruit and retain a diverse and talented team. As we make decisions about total rewards, we will be guided by the following values: highly competitive pay, equitable pay, clarity, and transparency.
The salary for this role is $190,000.
City Fund honors the diverse experiences that candidates bring to roles to which they are applying. Because we deeply value internal pay equity, City Fund does not currently differentiate starting salary offers based on years of experience, degree level, or employee geographic location.
City Fund offers a competitive total rewards package. For full-time roles, this includes 100% employer-paid health insurance, flexible PTO, 5% 401K match, 6 months of paid parental leave, and a host of other benefits.
City Fund is an equal opportunity employer. Don't think you check every box listed above? Please consider submitting an application anyway! We've learned that underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria on a job description. City Fund welcomes people of all backgrounds, and, as we invest in work that is inclusive of everyone who shares our commitment to educational equity, we're not looking for a "perfect" candidate. If you're excited about this role and believe that students and their families deserve access to quality education, we look forward to receiving your application!
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