Associate Director of Program Data and Analytics

Originally founded in 1991 as Harlem RBI, DREAM has grown to annually serve more than 2,500 youth across East Harlem and the South Bronx through a network of seven PreK-12, extended-day, extended-year DREAM Charter Schools and community sports-based youth development programs. Through our commitment to rigorous academics, social-emotional learning, deep family and community engagement, and health and wellness, we create lifelong learners who are equipped to fulfill their vision of success in and out of the classroom. We dream big, as well, with an aggressive five-year plan to expand to serve 3,500 students across seven schools—growing our organization’s impact and leveling the playing field for all children. To learn more, visit wearedream.org.

About Our Team

The mission of the DREAM Data Team is to provide staff with the information necessary to improve our work and the lives of youth by creating effective systems for data collection, reporting, and analysis, and building staff capacity to make the best data-driven decisions possible.

About This Role

Reporting to the Senior Director of Data and Assessment, the Associate Director of Program Data & Analytics helps build the strategy and owns the execution for program-facing data systems and reporting across several core areas. This leader will oversee the design and continuous improvement of data collection, reporting, analysis, and business intelligence tools that support key programmatic decisions and outcomes.

This role requires cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and technical fluency. The Associate Director must be able to translate program needs into scalable systems, prioritize across multiple internal clients, and drive adoption of data tools and practices across teams.

 

Core programmatic areas include, but are not limited to:

• Extended Learning and Enrichment (including after-school and summer): Oversee systems, drive fidelity, create tools, and prepare reports related to enrollment, demographics, attendance, and program quality observations in student information systems

• Social Emotional Learning (SEL): Lead the data strategy for student SEL survey administration, vendor management (Valor, DESSA, HelloInsight), analysis, and reporting to support data fidelity and program decision-making. 

• Legends (DREAM graduate support): Partner with program leadership to evolve and maintain the data ecosystem aligned to program goals and performance indicators. Support counselors in data integrity and usage.

• Athletics, Health, and Wellness (AHW): Lead K-12 AHW data systems design and reporting to support enrollment, participation, roster management, and engagement.

• Family and Community Engagement (FACE): Build out the data infrastructure and execute on the FACE data strategy. Advise on the key metrics, and integrate them into school goals and business intelligence products

• Social Work and Mental Health: Ensure strong systems and reporting for mandated counseling services, compliance monitoring, support for students receiving Response to Intervention services and/or mental health services, and connecting families to social services.