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The Administrative Data & Digital Content Coordinator is a member of Brearley’s all-school technology group, which is led by the Chief Technology Officer.  This is a full-time, in-person position that is available immediately. The work serves a dynamic academic community.

The Administrative Data & Digital Content Coordinator is thoughtful, self-motivated, and thrives in an environment that expects responsiveness and collaboration. They will approach projects by asking questions, soliciting and welcoming feedback, anticipating challenges, gently guiding colleagues, and solving for the future. This person ensures seamless online communications and robust data integrations by being an excellent technician, data manager, and proactive partner to all departments who work with data and communications. This person is excited and engaged in work that directly supports teaching and learning, children, parents, and their colleagues. This person is appreciative of every school employee’s role as an educator.

We invite interested candidates to apply by completing an application and uploading a cover letter and resume at https://www.brearley.org/page/about/employment-opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Key areas of responsibility for this position include managing the school’s website, portal, online forms, and surveys; acting as data manager; work and workflow support across all academic and operational departments around the school’s Blackbaud systems; collaborating on data integration with databases managed by other operational departments; and supporting the School’s online communications outreach in all forms, including media management.

Your Daily Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain projects related to the school’s online presence.
• Inform and maintain the school’s administrative data systems across various departments.
• Support faculty, staff, students, and parents with web-based systems.
• Maintain secure school data processes, both automated and manual.
• Provide detailed time estimates, report on projects, and manage a shared workflow calendar with the colleagues to whom this position is accountable.

Your Monthly Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and advise on data integration with various departmental databases.
• Communicate key changes to the school's intranet presence to colleagues and community members.
• Manage the creation, editing, storage, and archival of all photography and film used in school external communications at the direction of the Director of Communications
• Anticipate and solve for potential future technical problems.
• Train colleagues on the design and use of maintained data sets and web technologies
• Design, schedule, and perform data integrity workflows and schedules for all data sets as needs make themselves known.

Your Yearly Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with colleagues on web-based tools supporting the educational program, administrative functions, and communications efforts.
• Oversee secure data capture, integrations, connections, and migrations.
• Lead or participate in key projects related to web and data management.
• Collaborate with the Chief Technology Officer around issues of data governance in maintained systems, including advising on methods of collection and schedules for destruction.

Your Mission-Focused Responsibilities:

• Engage in activities and initiatives that resonate with the school's community and mission.
• Attend and contribute to various school meetings, committees, and outreach programs.
• Write articles or guides to assist faculty, staff, and students in navigating online tools and resources.

Technical Knowledge & Skills Required: 

You should have had three to five years of experience in database management within an academic setting and similar experience with the direct management of an organization’s web presence.    You should also be familiar with supporting or comfortable with learning the following:

• The Blackbaud suite of products.
• School administrative tools (e.g. Magnus Health, Ravenna, TADS, FileMaker Server).
• HTML, CSS, and possibly JavaScript, for website customization and troubleshooting.
• Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal.
• SQL or other equivalent database querying languages for data extraction and analysis.
• User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) best practices.
• Web analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics.
• Search engine optimization (SEO) best practices.
• Cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Data backup, recovery, and security protocols.
• API integrations with a variety of tools.
• Graphic design software such as Adobe Creative Suite.

Ideal Qualities:

You are ideally:

• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proactive, with a well-developed capacity to prioritize.
• Committed to data security and compliance.
• Excited by new puzzles, questions, and learning about operations that inform data.
• A team player with strong organizational skills and good judgment.
• Fastidious in your approach, demonstrating a strong work ethic.
• Positive in outlook and approach, with an emphasis on problem-solving and innovation.
• Ready to say, “I don’t know, but I’ll find out!” and demonstrate follow-through on those words.
• Willing to stop to tie a shoe, provide gentle guidance for lunchroom behavior, or help an Upper School student with an independent project.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $90,000 - $100,000 commensurate with experience. The Brearley School offers comprehensive benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Commuter, Health Savings Account, 403(b) employer contribution, Paid time off, and Life Insurance.

The Brearley School is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to hiring exceptional, dedicated professionals of diverse backgrounds. We consider qualified individuals for employment with the School regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other state or federally-protected classification.

About The Brearley School

The Brearley School, an independent school for girls, was founded in 1884 to provide its students with a college-preparatory education equal in rigor to that of boys, and, in the words of the mission statement today, to prepare them for “active responsible citizenship in a democratic society.” Within a highly articulated 13-year curriculum, and with a 6:1 student-faculty ratio, teaching methods are varied, flexible and pragmatic, taking into account individual patterns of development and ways of learning. The School’s program is designed to challenge eager, able students intellectually, and to give each one the opportunity to gain competence, self-reliance and self-knowledge through academic achievement as well as experience in the visual and performing arts, sports, community service and a wide variety of extracurricular activities. Brearley’s K-12 enrollment is divided into Lower School, Middle School and Upper School, and consists of about 747 students from throughout the New York metropolitan area who represent a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and points of view.

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