Business Analyst Intern (Immediate Opening)
- Recruiter
- IDEA Public Schools
- Location
- Weslaco, Texas, United States
- Salary
- USD 10.00 per hour
- Posted
- 17 May 2021
- Closes
- 20 May 2021
- Ref
- qsXVNNYNLTF6
- Job role
- Business analyst, CFO
- Sector
- Education and training
- Experience level
- Entry level, Internship
Description
Position at IDEA Public Schools
About IDEA Public Schools:
At IDEA Public Schools, we believe in college for ALL and we are committed to ensuring that all our students graduate from college. IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States sending 100% of our students to college. 50% of our students graduate from college in 6 years - that's 3 times the national rate for students in our communities!
IDEA was founded in 2000 as a single school with 150 students in the Rio Grande Valley. When interest exceeded building capacity, to meet the demands, IDEA's co-founders committed to serving more students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and beyond. We now serve over 65,000 students across Texas and Louisiana. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with continued growth in our current regions and new launches in Tampa Bay, FL (2021), and Jacksonville, FL (2022)!
When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
To learn more about IDEA, check out this video.
Role Mission: The Business Analyst will be responsible for improving IDEA's operational processes and supporting critical strategies by assisting in the new development and implementation related to our internal applications systems. This role is primarily responsible for building data models to organize important data for different teams across the business and for monitoring and handling data. With large quantities of data comes endless possibilities for mistakes, requiring the Business Analyst to constantly be on the lookout for information that needs cleansing and updating.
In addition to gathering, analyzing and cleansing information, the Business Analyst will create business reports for teams and individuals across the business. They also help translate analytics into non-technical insights to help all teams make well-informed decisions based on empirical evidence. This job requires the ability and desire to work and communicate well in a dynamic team environment as well as dependability and self-sufficiency.
Accountabilities
On-time Product Delivery: Drive to and maintain on-time development and delivery of high-quality features for custom applications and business intelligence tools as defined by monthly sprint plans and measured by:
Effective Requirements Analysis: New major product work and execution is detailed with full requirements analysis and effective preparation for sprint planning, with detailed task/effort estimates as measured by:
Efficient Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Thorough object-oriented analysis and design of features with the documentation of necessary design artifacts as measured by:
Adherence to Effective Scrum Practices
Competencies:
Qualifications:
Knowledge and Skills:
Compensation: $10/hour, 20 hours per week
IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.
Position at IDEA Public Schools
About IDEA Public Schools:
At IDEA Public Schools, we believe in college for ALL and we are committed to ensuring that all our students graduate from college. IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States sending 100% of our students to college. 50% of our students graduate from college in 6 years - that's 3 times the national rate for students in our communities!
IDEA was founded in 2000 as a single school with 150 students in the Rio Grande Valley. When interest exceeded building capacity, to meet the demands, IDEA's co-founders committed to serving more students in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and beyond. We now serve over 65,000 students across Texas and Louisiana. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with continued growth in our current regions and new launches in Tampa Bay, FL (2021), and Jacksonville, FL (2022)!
When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
To learn more about IDEA, check out this video.
Role Mission: The Business Analyst will be responsible for improving IDEA's operational processes and supporting critical strategies by assisting in the new development and implementation related to our internal applications systems. This role is primarily responsible for building data models to organize important data for different teams across the business and for monitoring and handling data. With large quantities of data comes endless possibilities for mistakes, requiring the Business Analyst to constantly be on the lookout for information that needs cleansing and updating.
In addition to gathering, analyzing and cleansing information, the Business Analyst will create business reports for teams and individuals across the business. They also help translate analytics into non-technical insights to help all teams make well-informed decisions based on empirical evidence. This job requires the ability and desire to work and communicate well in a dynamic team environment as well as dependability and self-sufficiency.
Accountabilities
On-time Product Delivery: Drive to and maintain on-time development and delivery of high-quality features for custom applications and business intelligence tools as defined by monthly sprint plans and measured by:
- % of critical defects due to code changes should be limited to a max of 5% team wide
- % of spilled over development tasks should be limited to a max of 5% team wide
- % of complete ownership of deployed features should exceed 20% team wide.
- % of reopened defects should be limited to a max of 2% team-wide
Effective Requirements Analysis: New major product work and execution is detailed with full requirements analysis and effective preparation for sprint planning, with detailed task/effort estimates as measured by:
- Difference between estimated effort and actual effort should be limited to a max of 15% and decrease gradually team-wide
- Defects due a mismatch in understanding of the requirements should be limited to a max of 10% team-wide
Efficient Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Thorough object-oriented analysis and design of features with the documentation of necessary design artifacts as measured by:
- Refactoring time to enhance/improve code changes should be less than 15% of the original effort team-wide
- At least 20% of all code developed should be reusable
- Reuse of code should be leveraged whenever possible. Duplication should be limited to a max of 5% team wide
Adherence to Effective Scrum Practices
- Adhering to all of the Scrum processes, with active and punctual participation in Scrum meetings as measured by:
- Absenteeism in scrum ceremonies including daily huddles, retrospectives, product reviews, and planning sessions should be limited to a max of 5% with prior intimation team-wide
- All planned leaves (both short and long duration) should be intimated in advance and documented so that sprint commitments are not affected. Deviation should be limited to 5% team-wide
- Unplanned leaves (both short and long duration) should be intimated as soon as possible and documented so that sprint commitments are not affected. Deviation should be limited to 5% team-wide.
- Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
- Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
- Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
- Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
- Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
- We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
Competencies:
- Collecting and interpreting data
- Analyzing results
- Reporting the results back to the relevant members of the business
- Identifying patterns and trends in data sets
- Working alongside teams within the business or the management team to establish business needs
- Balance of business and technical understanding of software, systems and Cloud products
- Demonstrated ability to collect and analyze input from multiple sources (clients, sales, engineering, competitors, marketing and management)
- Superior written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to listen carefully and to communicate effectively within a diverse environment
Qualifications:
- Education: Credit hours towards a Bachelor's degree in the field of statistics, math, computer science, physics, finance, business administration, economics or a related field required
- Experience: 0-1 years related work experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to work across diverse teams in a high-growth organization
- Strong customer service and influence skills across multiple organizational levels
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong ability to work in multiple tasks and projects at the same time and provide guidance to multiple users to plan and implement projects in a fast-paced environment
- Novice data analytical skills supported by advanced Excel, Power BI or other tools to analyze data and provide appropriate visualizations and insights
- Novice Analytics Programming using R/Python (preferred, but not mandatory)
Compensation: $10/hour, 20 hours per week
IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.