Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the fourth largest school district in the United States, serving over 320,000 students in 600+ schools and employing nearly 36,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career and civic life. In order to fulfill this mission, we make three commitments to our students, their families and all Chicagoans: academic progress, operational excellence and building trust. Six core values are embedded within these commitments – student centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership and continuous learning.
CPS is currently supporting a grant project focused on improving health information exchange between the Chicago Department of Public Health (CPH) and Chicago Public Schools. The Chicago Department of Public Health has granted CPS to bolster the following capabilities:
- Management and sharing of communicable disease data between Chicago Public Schools and the Local Health Department
- Improvement of data quality (business processes, governance, systems/applications, etc.)
- Efficiency of public health response to disease outbreaks for Chicago Public School students
The purpose is to increase CPS’ ability to respond more effectively and efficiently to health emergency situations.
Data Strategist Key Responsibilities
- Perform data analysis and generate reports using various data sources, both for internal and external use
- Manage internal department databases and data sets
- Help develop and implement process improvements in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
- Validate Procurement-driven cost savings and value-added initiatives
- Perform other duties and responsibilities, as needed
Requirements
Business Analysis Responsibilities:
- Conducts and facilitates requirement gathering sessions, Performs Fit/Gap Analysis, and develops and documents Business, and System Requirements as well as User Story and Use Case Scenarios.
- Conducts and facilitates Joint Application Design sessions and develops functional and technical design documentation for use in development of business process changes and report creations.
- Performs and validates System Configuration and Set ups in all test environments, conducts Conference Room Pilots and deploys changes into Production.
- Ability to document test strategy, test plan and write test scenarios, cases, and scripts.
- Experience leading testing efforts including System, Integration, Users Acceptance Testing and preparing User Training Material and Delivering Training to the User community.
- Provide project defect management.
- Conducts and facilitates business process analysis sessions and develops documentation of business process models, workflows, business requirements, use case scenarios, user story documentation, functional specifications and designs, and requirements traceability matrix.
- Implements PMO documentation standards and SDLC processes and provides process improvement recommendations.
- Efficiently performs assigned Level 2 Support tasks in the functional area for the relevant Business Applications.
- Drives resolutions for any support escalations from Business Leaders and Technical Support.
Required Deliverables:
- Business Requirements Document (BRD)
- Functional Requirements Specification (FRS)/Functional Specifications
- Use Cases
- User Stories
- Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFD)
- Business Process Models
- Gap Analysis
- Stakeholder Analysis
This is a sample list of the most important BA deliverables. Other required deliverables should be documented in a BA plan.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to work effectively with business stakeholders
Type of Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology or Business Administration or other similar quantitative field
- Certification(s) in PMI PBA, CBAP, ITIL, CBAP
Type of Experience and Number of Years:
- Business Analysis experience in cross-functional implementations
- Minimum five (5) years of related business analysis experience required
- Minimum five (5) years of related data analysis experience required.
- Experience in Education (K-12) project or program work, preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong organization skills and ability to multitask
- Strong communication skills
- Detail-oriented and ability to work independently and collaboratively