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Analyst, Opportunity Culture®​ Portal and Data Services

Public Impact
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Role: Analyst, Opportunity Culture®​ Portal and Data Services 

Start Date: May – June 2026 

Public Impact is a national education management consulting firm, based in Chapel Hill, N.C. Our mission is to improve education dramatically for all students, especially students whose needs have not yet been well met. We collaborate with teachers and school and system leaders to implement changes that will help the students they serve, and believe that if we focus on a core set of promising strategies for change, we and our partners and clients can make bold improvements for all students, with long-term financial sustainability and success. 

Toward that end, we: 

  • Extend the reach of excellent teaching to all students, through Opportunity Culture School Design, an initiative to redesign staffing, pay and instruction for higher-growth learning and educator satisfaction. Multiple third-party studies have shown that students supported by Multi-Classroom Leader® educators (an Opportunity Culture role) add an extra half year of learning annually, on average. Teachers in these schools are about twice as likely to recommend teaching compared to other teachers nationally, and teacher turnover and vacancies have declined in studied schools. Schools in seventeen states and Washington, D.C. now have Opportunity Culture schools. 
  • Use data, research, and curious problem-solving to create and spread high-impact innovations and solutions for education policy and management challenges. 

See all our work at publicimpact.com and www.opportunityculture.org 

Role: The Analyst will join the Opportunity Culture®​ Portal and Data Services team, a small technical group whose purpose is to provide tools and information to support the success of the Opportunity Culture®​ initiative. They will work on both analytical and web development projects. Responsibilities will include a combination of some or all of the following:  

  • Data Analytics Projects 
    • Support annual data collection efforts of internally-collected and publicly available sources, and prepare summary reports for internal and external audiences 
    • Conduct analyses to explore relationships between student outcomes and various implementation, survey, or contextual factors; contribute to dashboards and other public-facing data products 
    • Perform data analyses and reporting as needed to support team and organizational priorities 
    • Create clear, compelling data visualizations—including dashboards, charts, and summaries—and communicate findings to diverse audiences 
    • Help ensure secure data storage, backups, and responsible data management practices 
    • Document, refine, and improve data processes, protocols, and analysis workflows to support quality and consistency 
  • Opportunity Culture®​ School Excellence Portal Support 
    • Provide technical support and assistance for Opportunity Culture®​ consultants and clients using the web application 
      • Support team members and external users in troubleshooting and resolving common issues 
      • Assist with internal and external development strategy efforts 
      • Produce creative and innovative implementations that meet internal and external stakeholder goals and requirements 
    • Support with testing of web platform features to ensure high-quality functionality and refine user experience 
    • Collaborate with teammates to integrate internal and external tools to promote team-wide efficiency and enable future research efforts on Opportunity Culture®​ initiative effectiveness 
  • Collaborate on technical projects such as those above with own manager, the Co-Presidents, and teammates 
  • Share knowledge and train other technical and non-technical team members to increase impact and scope with efficiency over time 
  • Gain exposure to a wide variety of national education reform issues and organizations 
  • Participate as team member on flexible client/colleague project teams to do all of the above 

 

Technical Qualifications: 

  • BA or BS; Associates degree or other training in relevant area 
  • Preferred undergraduate or graduate majors: Computer Science, Software/Computer Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Information Technology/Systems, Business Administration with focus in statistics, Statistics and Operations Research (STOR), or similar 
  • Advanced proficiency with Excel and Google Sheets, including proficiency writing macros and scripts, handling array functions, and creating charts and graphs 
  • Ability to perform basic analysis techniques 
  • Proficiency with any statistical software (e.g R, Stata, SAS, or comparable software) and willingness to learn new  
  • Basic HTML, CCS, and/or JavaScript proficiency 
  • Optional but desirable: 
    • Proficiency with R statistical software 
    • Proficiency with SalesForce database functions and Tableau 
    • At least 1-2 years of experience in part-time, full-time, or extra-curricular/volunteer work doing practical data analysis or programming, similar to type of work described above. 

 

Leadership, Team, and Interpersonal Skills Qualifications: 

  • Achievement: Demonstrated ability to implement change or improvement, with a bias for impact. 
  • Commitment to Accuracy: obsession with meeting a high standard of accuracy in data work 
  • Quality Focus: willingness to give and receive significant feedback to produce outstanding work 
  • Flexibility: ability to juggle multiple projects and do what it takes to accomplish tasks 
  • Impact Orientation: acts deliberately based on cost-benefit analysis, with a bias towards positive impacts on students and teachers 
  • Teamwork: ability to act as supportive and collaborative team member, follow through on work responsibly and in a timely manner 
  • Analytical/Critical Thinking: Ability to interpret data with level-headed, critical eye and grasp major concepts in field 
  • Communication: Able to communicate complex ideas simply. Strong communicator through written and verbal work 
  • Creative, flexible thinker who enjoys learning new tools to develop helpful ways to address tough, persistent problems 
  • Demonstrated interest in our mission to improve academic outcomes for K-12 students, through paid or volunteer work 

Location: Work from home in approved U.S. states. We have many team members currently living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C. area and in the Charlotte, N.C. area. Please see the map of states, with highlighted states where we are both currently working and willing to hire, or where team members live already. Several new states are in discussion to launch, so please apply even if your state is not listed. Pay levels are set for the Chapel Hill, N.C. area. 

Public Impact provides partial reimbursement for internet and phone, as well as other supports to help team members work productively at home. 

Travel: Travel is not a consistent expectation for this role, but may be required to attend occasional in-person team events, likely in the Carrboro-Chapel Hill, NC area or in-person Summer Professional Learning events in Raleigh, NC, and Tulsa, OK in July 2026. 

Compensation: Total target starting pay range of $71,500 - $88,000  includes: 

  • Base salary of approximately $65,000 - $80,000 (commensurate with qualifications and experience). 
  • Target 10% discretionary firmwide annual bonus, dependent on teamwide performance on a variety of factors aligned with our goals for students and educators. 

 

Benefits: Current benefits include the following: 

  • Health Insurance: Public Impact pays 100% of monthly premiums for a high-deductible plan with a health savings account or approximately 85% of monthly premiums for a PPO 80/20 plan for employees and their children 
  • Short Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and Term Life Insurance 
  • Dental, Vision, Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, Dependent and Health Care FSAs 
  • 401(k): 3% automatic employer contribution 
  • Flexible Personal Leave 
  • Remote work setup with occasional opportunities to connect with colleagues in person at our office in Chapel Hil, N.C., at client sites, and/or co-working in areas where multiple PI employees reside 

 

Position Classification: Full-time; Permanent; Exempt 

Work Hours: We aim for professional workweeks of 45 hours or less, but some weeks will be just 40, and some occasionally will be more due to project/work area needs especially during peak program analysis season and times of high OC® Portal use; team members work primarily during Eastern Time Zone hours. 

TO APPLY: Please complete the online application and attach the following: 

  1. Resumé, highlighting skills and experiences related to the job described above. 
  2. Cover letter, including a description of why you are interested in working at Public Impact®. 
  3. Response to one of the following prompts (250 words max): 
    1. Explain how you have used data to achieve a measurable outcome.  
    2. Describe a project where you combined data analysis with web development to solve a real world problem. What was the challenge, what tools did you use, and what impact did your solution have? 
  4. Two work samples of your choosing that best demonstrate the skills, mindsets, and/or contributions you have achieved in previous work, school, or extracurricular experiences that you would bring to our team. The work samples may include submissions such as a data analysis report, interactive dashboard or visualization, database or data pipeline project, web application or front-end build, code sample or github project, technical documentation or process guide, or any other similar submission you feel would benefit our hiring team in understanding your potential to contribute to the type of work described in this job description supporting the Public Impact® mission. At least one example using statistics/data analytics is preferred. Work samples may not be edited by others, or created using AI, though you may have used AI for research and basic quality checks, as you would in normal work in this area. 

NOTE: At this time, it is our policy not to hire Multi-Classroom Leader® educators or principals leading Opportunity Culture schools in districts where we are currently working, or educators in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools or Chatham County Schools. Thank you for your understanding as we work in partnership with school and district leaders and in our local community. 

Public Impact® is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity), marital status, veteran status, genetic information, arrest record, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment. 

Public Impact promotes and maintains a drug-free workplace.