Junior Data Analyst/Data Scientist - SPARK Schools Support Office
SPARK Schools, South Africa
Job Description
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SPARK Schools is a social impact disruptor and is leading change in the education space through its network of affordable private schools. The SPARK Schools network provides transformational education innovation through Africa’s first blended learning model, which elevates student achievement and provides the tools teachers need to serve their students effectively.
The blended learning model, which combines classroom teaching and online instruction, allows teachers to anticipate student needs and equips schools to provide personalized education at an affordable cost. SPARK Schools is pioneering this transformative education model to ensure the accessibility of university and careers for all.
SPARK Schools is a high growth, mission and values-driven entrepreneurial organisation, operating 19 primary schools, 1 high school and serving over 14,000 families in 2022. We are looking for dynamic people to join our team.
Reports To: Business Intelligence amp; Analytics Manager
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Serve as an analytics domain expert: help the business intelligence team scope and and prioritize projects, identify required infrastructure, maintain existing infrastructure
- Be a thought partner to other departments and drive data-driven decision-making across SPARK Schools
- Build reports and dashboards that empower stakeholders to self-service data consumption, enabling them to access data and insights as needed
- Deeply understand users within the SPARK ecosystem and their actions (end to end) and champion features to enhance user experience - reducing pain points for all stakeholders
- Help develop data-driven products and services, such as client-facing analytics insights and personalized experiences
- Be able to simplify and communicate complex topics to non-technical audiences
- Elevate the entire business (Particularly Product Design, Sales, Marketing, Systems, Accounts and Customer Service teams) by analyzing and leveraging data to make recommendations and improvements
- Work with other analysts and data scientists to support business intelligence work from SQL pipelines and Power BI
- Ad-hoc data analysis.
Qualifications and Criteria:
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and criteria:
- Completed relevant bachelor’s degree in mathematics, engineering, computer science or another relevant field
- 2 to 4 years of experience as a Junior Data Analyst/Scientist
- Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge BI tools (Power BI amp; Excel/Google Sheets)
- Analytics experience across company domains such as Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, and Finance
- Experience with web analytics and optimization tools (Mixpanel, Google Analytics, etc.)
- Experience in designing and setting up experiments to analyze the impact of new products and features a plus (hypothesis testing, multivariate analysis, or Bayesian)
- Experience working with developers
- Experience with databases
- Familiarity with version-control systems
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required
- Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken
- Experience with a BI transformation tool is a plus
- Ability to build Machine Learning models
Competencies:
- SQL Server
- T-SQL
- SSIS
- SSAS
- SSRS
- Azure
- Power BI
- Python
- R
Qualities:
- Grit: Persistence through challenges.
- Excellence: A track record of high expectations personally and professionally.
- Mission and Vision Alignment: Understanding of and passion for the SPARK Schools mission to provide excellent education at an affordable cost.
- Self Reflection: Finding the capacity to bring your best self to challenges and opportunities.
Values: Service, Persistence, Achievement, Responsibility, Kindness
Benefits
SPARK offers:
- fair market linked remuneration
- performance-based annual bonuses and increases
- above average/good annual leave
- life, disability and funeral cover
- employee wellness support
- educational support amp; study leave
- individualised professional development, support and mentorship
- employee discount on school fees
- opportunities for career growth
Compensation: Commensurate with experience.<