About Good Reason Houston
Good Reason Houston exists to create a future where every child in every neighborhood of Houston has access to a world class public education that prepares them to thrive in the Houston of tomorrow.
From a child’s first day of Pre-K to their first day on the job, we work to make sure every student is prepared for success in school, career, and life. Anchored in a cradle-to-career vision, Good Reason Houston is driven by a bold North Star Goal: to double the rate of public school graduates earning a living wage by 2040, positioning economic mobility as the ultimate measure of student success. Achieving this goal requires collaboration across sectors, and Good Reason Houston serves as Houston’s regional education backbone, uniting public school systems, higher education institutions, employers, and civic leaders around a shared vision for student success.
We believe that all Houston students deserve an excellent education, and work to reshape the Houston education landscape by inspiring hope, possibility, and action as we work towards our mission of growing the number of students learning in great public schools.
Good Reason Houston builds awareness of, advocates for, and advises school systems on measures aimed to improve the quality of education available to all. Today the organization partners with 25 public school systems that collectively serve 700,000 students across 900 public schools in the Houston region. We seek to cultivate a shared regional vision for educational quality, to build the capacity for change required within districts and the greater Houston community, and to foster collective ownership to support student-level results for kids across our city.
For more information, please visit www.goodreasonhouston.org .
About the Role
The Manager, Quantitative Research & Data Analytics ensures that Good Reason Houston’s efforts are shaped and sharpened by insights from rigorous data analysis, and that insights can be shared across the community to accelerate and amplify our impact.
This role will work in collaboration with Good Reason Houston’s Research, Data, and Impact team to execute the organization-wide research agenda set by the Director by identifying key research questions and data collection methods, conducting analysis, and surfacing insights for various audiences. The Manager will create and manage data systems and may be asked to build staff capacity to utilize those systems in their own work. The team codes in R, manages its code in GitHub, is moving its data from shared drives to a SQL database, and is moving its dashboards from Tableau to R Shiny; the Manager is a hands-on builder of that work. This role reports to the Director, Quantitative Research & Data Analytics.
Primary Responsibilities
Research & Analysis (50%)
Support development of and execution of organization-wide research agenda, drawing from focus questions across all programmatic areas
Collaborate with internal team and external partners to develop appropriate research questions and data collection instruments
Design methodologically sound analytic plans and carry them out in R, using descriptive, regression, and cohort or longitudinal methods as the question requires
Partner with the Qualitative Research & Insights team on mixed-methods studies, including joint analysis plans and integrated findings
Perform recurring and ad hoc quantitative data analysis that maximizes Good Reason Houston’s impact and aligns with strategic and external affairs objectives
Write reusable, documented R scripts and functions for recurring analyses, maintained in the team’s GitHub repository, so that every published number can be traced to the code that produced it
Leverage existing data sources to address secondary research questions, including large administrative datasets
Execute on new research projects aligned with Good Reason Houston’s mission and vision
Develop, maintain, and share expertise on publicly available state- and…