Rostering Support

About Family Engagement Lab

Family Engagement Lab is a national nonprofit that catalyzes equitable family engagement and student learning by bridging classroom curriculum and at-home learning. Its work builds partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by facilitating ongoing communication and collaboration about learning. Its signature tool, FASTalk, shares engaging, at-home learning activities via text messages in each family’s home language. FASTalk significantly increases equity in academic achievement, helping students the furthest behind catch up to their peers. Family Engagement Lab is experiencing rapid growth through partnerships with districts such as Oakland Unified School District as well as collaborations with leading education organizations such as the Louisiana Department of Education. The nonprofit’s efforts bring together a commitment to educational equity, research, technology, and practical experience in pre-K-12 systems. Learn more at http://www.familyengagementlab.org/. 

The Role

This role will focus on cleaning, formatting and combining student roster data with caregiver contact information from school systems for consumption by the FASTalk platform. Therefore, this person should be comfortable rapidly manipulating medium and large data sets into a specific format using Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets.

This is a contract position. Hours will vary depending on load and school year seasonality (10-20 hours per week). The position is flexible and fully remote, but may require occasional availability between 8a-3p Pacific for meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively prioritize tasks for multiple customers in parallel based on input from colleagues and project management tools

• Efficiently clean, reformat, and import roster data submitted by customers

• Complete pre-import data validation to minimize the incidence of partial/failed imports

• Surface missing/incomplete records from customer submissions as necessary, working around data issues when possible 

• Update and organize existing records within FASTalk as requested

• Contribute to the improvement of onboarding systems and processes

Qualifications

• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy

• Conscientious, ethical, and experience with best practices in handling private, student data  

• Ability to efficiently match, clean, and reformat tabular data using Excel/Google Sheets

• Prior experience in school system onboarding roles (especially in edtech) is highly desirable

• Experience working with Clever is a plus

  
  

We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities.

Start date:  July 1, 2021

Compensation: $45/hour