Associate Director – Program Data and Analytics

DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI)

Associate Director overseeing program data systems for educational organization serving youth. Collaborating with stakeholders to enhance data collection, reporting, and analysis.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $105,000 - $115,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftBigQueryCloudPythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the primary data partner to senior program leaders across DREAM’s programmatic portfolio;
Build strong relationships with stakeholders across programs to identify needs, clarify priorities, and translate business questions into data solutions;
Influence decision-making by helping leaders use data to drive program improvement, resource allocation, and strategic planning;
Create clarity and alignment around key program metrics, definitions, reporting cycles, and ownership;
Provide continuous oversight and improvement on program data systems.
Maintain relevant Python and FiveTran pipelines;
Develop expertise on DREAM’s BigQuery data warehouse;
Create Data Studio business intelligence products;
Ensure that program data systems are reliable, scalable, and aligned to both operational and strategic needs;
Lead efforts to improve data quality, survey administration, documentation, governance, and cross-system consistency;
Act as the point person for K-12 summer program data planning and execution.
Oversee recurring program reporting and analysis, including grants, school and alumni surveys, compliance, KPI tracking, and stakeholder-facing dashboards;
Lead the development of quarterly data day visualizations and other high-impact presentations for program and organizational leadership;
Partner with program leaders to identify trends, surface insights, and connect program participation and services to youth outcomes;
Support evaluation and analysis of key initiatives, including work related to counseling, attendance, engagement, and other priority program outcomes;
Ensure reporting is timely, accurate, decision-useful, and tailored to different audiences.
Lead the evolution of DREAM’s suite of business intelligence products for programs, ensuring tools are useful, intuitive, and aligned to stakeholder needs;

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in a related field preferred;
4+ years of relevant experience in education, youth development, data analysis, analytics, or data systems leadership;
Experience with SQL, required, and experience with Bigquery standard SQL preferred;
Familiarity with Python, Git, and modern data workflows, preferred;
Experience with cloud data warehouse solutions such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift;
Experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI;
Experience conducting user-centered design, stakeholder discovery, or UX research to improve internal tools and processes;
Experience in a charter school management organization, youth development organization, or similarly complex mission-driven environment, a plus;
Demonstrated success owning complex, cross-functional work that requires both strategic thinking and strong execution;
Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and navigating multiple priorities in a collaborative, solutions-oriented way;
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex concepts into clear insights and recommendations;
Strong project and change management skills, including the ability to lead long-term initiatives and drive adoption across teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Medical Health Plans, subsidizing the majority of costs for the employee, their spouse/domestic partner and children;
The ability to select between a variety of medical plans according to what best suits the employee’s needs;
Dental and vision plans;
Disability benefits;
Life insurance;
Up to 12 weeks fully paid of Parental Leave;
Flexible spending account options;
Pre-tax commuter benefits (parking and transit);
Fitness and entertainment discounts;
A variety of support through our employee assistance program (EAP);
403(b) retirement plan with employer match starting at 4% after one year, with increases tied to DREAM tenure;
Referral, performance, and tenure milestones bonuses;
Discounted school meals through our in-house Scratch Food Program;
Tuition reimbursement support;
Access to a professional development fund;
All full-time Network Support Team employees are eligible for approximately 48 days off throughout the year including holidays, sick days, personal days and summer Fridays.
Benefits are subject to change.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysisdata systems leadershipSQLBigQueryPythonGitdata visualizationbusiness intelligenceuser-centered designstakeholder discovery

Soft Skills

communication skillsstrategic thinkingproject managementchange managementcollaborationinfluence decision-makingrelationship buildingproblem-solvingexecutioninsight generation