PowerSchool Data Manager
Contact Person: Tara Tucker
Phone Number: 828-433-1533
Email: taratucker@burke.k12.nc.us
11-month position
Position Title: Data Manager
Reports To: Principal
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
- Knowledge of computers, networking, and office practices.
- High level of accuracy in data entry and management.
- Administrative skills to interpret county and state policies governing enrollment/withdrawal, attendance, immunizations, and health records.
- Communication skills to communicate with school personnel, students, parents, and outside agencies.
- Ability to perform common arithmetical functions.
- Software/word processing skills for data entry, reporting, word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and other PowerSchool programs.
- Uses discretion to structure tasks to meet expectations and prioritizes meeting deadlines.
- Keeps information confidential.
- Needs limited supervision and can work independently and as part of the team.
- Able to make decisions and solve problems with school data and information provided.
Education, Training Required: High School diploma and a minimum of two years of experience with computer processing and data entry preferred. An Associate's Degree from a two-year college or technical school is preferred.
Term of Employment: 8 hours per day for 11 months at schools with grades K-5 or
8 hours per day for 12 months for schools with grades 6-12.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Enters and manages student data in PowerSchool, including enrollments, withdrawals, student/teacher/room schedules, transcripts, test scores, immunizations, demographics, etc.
- Monitors teachers' entry of attendance and grades into PowerSchool. Monitors student absences for correct excused/ unexcused coding. Prepare student absence lists and the daily absence bulletin. Maintains student sign-in/sign-out logs per the principal's directions.
- Employs the PowerSchool program to generate reports to satisfy the requirements
- Collects data for and prints marking period report cards.
- Requests cumulative records for new students and sends cumulative records upon request for exiting students. Manages student cumulative records according to federal ( FERPA) and district policies and procedures
- Other clerical duties as assigned by the principal.