Associate Director, Data Generalist

What We Do At Leading Educators (LE) , we know that excellent teaching is the most important driver of student success. The moment a student steps foot in the classroom, their opportunity to learn depends on how prepared their teacher is to translate complex content knowledge, standards, and their knowledge of that student into lessons that help them learn deeply and apply their thinking to the real world. That’s a big lift, and it often happens alone.

As a national nonprofit, we partner with school systems to overcome persistent instructional challenges, foster intentional collaboration and adult learning by design, and ignite new possibilities through systemic solutions at the intersection of teaching, talent, and technology. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with educators at every level of the education system to strengthen their instructional and leadership practices, bring a vision for excellent instruction to life with consistency, and ensure every student reaches their full potential. Through direct support, strategic advising, innovation pilots, and best-in-class research, we help educators work toward a future where every student is ready to thrive.

org . Internal Candidate Application Deadline: 7/27/2026 External Candidate Application Deadline: 7/27/2026 Position At Leading Educators, we believe that excellent teaching transforms student outcomes. Our Data Generalist plays a vital role in making this happen by ensuring that high-quality data informs every strategic decision we make—from our research initiatives to our work with school systems across the country.

This is a newly created position with a unique opportunity: you'll help shape how our Research, Data Strategy, and Data Systems teams operate while gaining broad exposure to every stage of the data lifecycle. You'll be the critical connector between research, analytics, and operational execution—translating complex data into actionable insights that strengthen our organizational strategy and improve educational outcomes. Working under the shared leadership of our Research and Data Strategy teams, you'll gain broad exposure to every stage of our research, analytics, and data operations.

As you onboard, you'll orient our full portfolio of projects, develop a deep understanding of our organizational strategy, and build fluency in the systems, processes, and partnerships that power data-informed decision making across Leading Educators. You'll quickly become a trusted operational partner—creating project plans, meeting agendas, documentation, and tracking tools that keep complex, cross-functional initiatives organized, aligned, and moving forward. You'll coordinate work across multiple teams, ensuring priorities remain visible, stakeholders stay connected, and key deliverables are executed with excellence.

As your understanding of our work grows, you'll take increasing ownership of analytical projects—from cleaning, validating, and organizing data to conducting quantitative analyses, building dashboards and reports, and translating findings into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences. You'll contribute to larger cross-functional initiatives while developing the confidence and expertise to independently lead smaller projects that directly inform organizational strategy and continuous improvement. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity, learning new technical skills, and balancing analytical thinking with project coordination.

Success requires curiosity, analytical rigor, exceptional organization, strong relationship-building, and the adaptability to navigate evolving priorities in a fast-paced environment. If you're energized by solving meaningful problems, collaborating across teams, and using data to strengthen organizational strategy and improve educational outcomes, you'll find this to be a rewarding opportunity to make a lasting impact.