About This Role
This Education Program Consultant role focuses on data and reporting for the Bureau of Community Colleges, managing student, staff, and course databases across Iowa's 15 community colleges. The consultant provides data support for state and federal accountability reporting, cleans data, automates validation processes, and offers technical assistance to educational and legislative stakeholders. Additionally, the position coordinates high school equivalency diplomas (HSED) candidate records.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in data processing and programming to create detailed and summary databases of students, staff, and credit and non-credit course information received from Iowa's 15 community colleges for state and federal accountability reporting purposes
- Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain statewide databases/data systems
- Assist with the maintenance of the statewide community college management information system (MIS) database
- Evaluate and design data processing support for the community college MIS, including developing or locating new process improvement opportunities, including web-based data submission
- Edit the community college databases and the division's MIS using programming languages such as Visual Basic, Access, SQL, and Excel, or work with contractors to develop such edits and processes
- Filter and "clean" data by reviewing reports, printouts, and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems
- Design processes to automate edits into the statewide submission process with immediate feedback of validation issues or data irregularities
- Provide data and technical assistance to division staff, supervisors, and various education and legislative stakeholders for year-end federal reporting (comprehensive annual report) and statewide program data reporting and analysis
- Provide technical assistance and data to the division's team responsible for implementing the Voluntary Framework of Accountability national project or any other statewide initiative
- Perform other MIS/data team duties as assigned
- Coordinate the department's efforts with the issuing of high school equivalency diplomas
- Serve as liaison with the vendor responsible for managing the issuing of high school equivalency diplomas and records
- Coordinate the database and maintenance of accurate and complete HSED candidate records
- Support the Department, Division and Bureau priorities through performing other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Passion for pursuing common goals in pursuit of public service
- Strong technical skills
- Strategic and analytical mindset
- Ability and desire to learn
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