INTRODUCTION

The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is the state agency that advances public education and libraries in Wisconsin. Our mission is to advance equitable, transformative, and sustainable educational experiences that develop learners, schools, libraries, and communities in Wisconsin. Working at DPI offers you the opportunity to build on our long-standing commitment to public education so that students are learning the skills and knowledge necessary to become contributing members of our communities.
At DPI, we are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels safe, supported, and valued. Equity and inclusion are at the core of our organizational values, which include belonging, integrity, love, humility, and honor. These values guide how we build our teams, develop our leaders, and create a culture that empowers everyone to be their authentic selves. When employees are respected and valued for who they are and staff are held accountable for demonstrating that respect to others, we believe it drives greater engagement and collaboration, ignites creativity and innovation, and fosters connection between teams and those we serve.
Our employees enjoy an exceptional employee assistance program that offers a variety of programs and tools to help promote wellness. We have a team-oriented atmosphere, focus on work-life balance, and offer flexible work schedules for most positions. Click this video to learn more about the benefits of working at DPI.
The Data Warehouse and Decision Support Section in the Division of Management Services, Bureau of Information Technology Services, is seeking applicants for a Data and Reporting Analyst position. Do you want to make a difference in students’ lives by providing quality data to local, state and federal policymakers? Do you excel at creating Business Intelligence reports and dashboards, defining report requirements, testing extract, transfer, and load (ETL) processes and dashboard outputs, and digging into data? Then apply today to become the next IS Data and Reporting Analyst in the Data Warehouse and Decision Support section..

POSITION SUMMARY

This position provides technical expertise and assistance to staff in the Department of Public Instruction, local educational agencies, and other community agencies in the planning, design, development, training, implementation, technical support, and review of IT data systems such as WISEid, WISEdata, WISEstaff and WISEdash. This position will act as a business and data analyst for the division and will work with program area leads and external customers to gather system and data requirements, translate those requirements to technical specifications, and build the reports and dashboards to enable stakeholders to answer their important education questions. This position will also jointly lead data quality efforts for annual data snapshots.
For more information, please view the complete position description.

QUALIFICATIONS

Please address the following in your resume and/or letter of qualifications.

A minimally qualified applicant must have experience with all the below:

• Creating Structured Query Language (SQL) queries
• Creating business intelligence (BI) reports or dashboards (e.g., PowerSchool Unified Insights, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or similar)
• Defining or documenting business or data requirements
• Performing unit testing or user acceptance testing activities (e.g., script creation/modification, test plan creation, communication of test results, etc.)

Please note that a college degree is not required for this position.

Well-qualified applicants will also have experience:

• Experience leading a data quality initiative (e.g., coordinating data quality efforts with program areas, running reports or conducting data analysis to identify problem areas, or similar)
• Education, training, or experience with Agile/Scrum project management/software development methodology/practice
• Experience with K-12 education data or with WISE (Wisconsin Information System for Education)
• Applying respect, equity, and inclusion practices

Please refer the Job description for details