Job Description

Summary

Under the direction of the Chief State Impact Officer, the Lead Analytics Consultant, Statewide Initiatives plays a leadership role in advancing data-driven decision-making and strategy development to improve student outcomes across early childhood, PK-12, and higher education throughout Texas. This role involves managing analytical projects, mentoring junior team members, and directly engaging with stakeholders to enhance data literacy and actionability. The Lead Consultant will oversee high-impact projects, contribute to statewide policy initiatives, and support education leaders across Texas through data analysis and strategic insights across Commit’s Policy and State Coalition, Commit to Leaders, Texas Impact Network, Texas Urban Council, and Texas College Bridge workstreams. Additionally, this role will provide leadership in shaping analytical priorities, guiding cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the effective execution of key initiatives within the Statewide Initiatives team. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Data Analysis & Insights

• Lead complex data analysis efforts to identify key trends, patterns, and root causes affecting student success at a statewide level, providing actionable recommendations aligned with Commit Partnership goals
• Oversee the discovery, collection, tracking, and analysis of education and workforce data, ensuring data integrity and accuracy through public sources, data sharing agreements, and public information requests
• Develop predictive models and strategic frameworks to support policy and programmatic decisions across Texas. 

Leadership & People Management

• Provide mentorship and professional development support to junior analysts and consultants within the Statewide Initiatives team
• Lead project teams, ensuring clarity of objectives, timely execution, and high-quality deliverables
• Serve as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, fostering collaboration and guiding data-driven decision-making
• Facilitate training and capacity-building initiatives to enhance data fluency among statewide education leaders, policymakers, and community backbone organizations

Data Visualization & Communication

• Develop compelling, high-impact visual reports and presentations that effectively translate complex data into actionable insights for diverse statewide audiences, including education agency leaders, policymakers, district administrators, and community backbone stakeholders
• Ensure that key findings and recommendations are communicated clearly through dashboards, presentations, and reports
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of executive-level presentations and materials for Statewide Initiative convenings, including meetings with districts, education agencies and policymakers

Project Management & Decision-Making

• Lead high-stakes projects involving cross-functional teams, setting strategic priorities, managing resources, and ensuring successful outcomes
• Drive data-informed decision-making processes across multiple teams, helping shape key initiatives and statewide educational strategies
• Assess and refine methodologies for measuring and evaluating policy effectiveness and impact across Texas

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a strategic partner to Commit’s Statewide Initiatives team, supporting engagement with state agencies, district coalitions, and education policy efforts
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners, including the Texas Education Agency, school districts, higher education institutions, policymakers, and community organizations
• Work extensively in Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, and Alteryx to analyze and visualize data that influence audiences to change systems aligned to Commit priorities

Performs other duties as assigned. 

Salary Range

$91,000 - $110,000

Education and Experience Required

 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., education policy, statistics, economics, public administration, or a related discipline)
• Experience: At least 4 years of experience in an analytics/insights, education, consulting, or nonprofit environment, with demonstrated leadership responsibilities
• Technology Proficiency: Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, and Alteryx

Qualifications and Skills Required

 

• Advanced proficiency in data analysis and visualization, with strong Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, and Alteryx skills
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience mentoring junior staff
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data insights into clear, compelling narratives
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to strategic decision-making
• Highly organized, with excellent project management and time management abilities
• Insatiable desire to transform student achievement in Texas and belief that education can be an equalizer
• Interest in education policy and a commitment to strong, bipartisan data-driven, students-first policies that increase educational outcomes for students
• A keen attention to detail and a strong commitment to maintaining accuracy in all aspects of their work
• Proven record of organization and professional success  
• A well-rounded team player who will think critically and pivot quickly to complete fast-moving work with a high degree of quality.  
• A self-starter who manages multiple deadlines and communicates up, down, and across the team to ensure goals stay on track.  

Preferred

• Experience managing direct reports or leading cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with Texas education data and relevant social impact metrics
• Experience working in a nonprofit, public sector, or statewide policy-setting environment focused on education

Work Environment

The Manager generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.  Job Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our collective actions, Dallas County—which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation—can become an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared fairly. That’s why our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all Dallas County residents ages 25–34, irrespective of race, will have the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand, well-paying jobs—maximizing the cumulative impact from early education through college, career, and military readiness to strong postsecondary completion. Our team aligns community stakeholders around this shared roadmap for the future, using data to surface strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding. Together, we work to address the systemic root causes that hinder progress and strengthen our community’s capacity to serve every student effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, the Commit Partnership has grown into the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, uniting more than 70 backbone team members and over 200 partners across Dallas County and Texas—all working together to address the systemic education challenges facing our region and state. Our team brings community stakeholders together around a shared roadmap for the future, using data and practitioner insights to inform effective policy solutions that accelerate progress toward our goals and strengthen our collective capacity to serve every student well.

Together, we advocate for an excellent public education that ensures all students—regardless of race, place, or socioeconomic status—can shape their own futures, earn a living wage, and share in the prosperity of the world’s eighth-largest economy. We pursue this mission through several key initiatives, including Early Matters Dallas, Dallas County Promise, the Texas Urban Council, and the Texas Impact Network.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact : You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.

Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Local area, Visa sponsorship,

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