Purpose Of Position
The Data Specialist is responsible for supporting integrity, accuracy, accessibility, and governance of data across DCIU and state-required data systems. The position ensures that student, service, enrollment, compliance, and fiscal-related data are entered, maintained, reconciled, and reported accurately and in accordance with applicable state, federal, and DCIU requirements.
Essential Functions
- Maintain, monitor, validate, and reconcile data across DCIU and external systems to ensure the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and integrity of student, service, enrollment, attendance, compliance, and program information.
- Ensure information maintained within state level data systems is accurate, current, and consistent with DCIU student information systems and other applicable program records; identify discrepancies and coordinate corrective action with appropriate staff.
- Coordinate and support the preparation, validation, reconciliation, and submission of required state Early Intervention reports and data collections, ensuring that information is complete, accurate, timely, and consistent across reporting systems.
- Develop and implement routine data-quality assurance processes, including audits, exception reports, validation checks, reconciliation procedures, and follow-up protocols to identify incomplete, inaccurate, duplicate, or inconsistent data.
- Manage data across all systems (internal and external data systems including updates to master files) for the purpose of providing supporting documentation and/or information for IU and department records.
- Work closely with the Supervisor of Information Technology and appropriate IT staff to support Program data governance, including data definitions, system integration, data ownership, access, security, quality standards, reporting structures, and consistent practices across systems.
- Collaborate with Information Technology and Department leadership to ensure data-entry forms, system configurations, automated processes, dashboards, and reports appropriately support Early Intervention operational and reporting requirements.
- Support the integrity and reconciliation of data necessary for billing, including coordination with Information Technology, Business Services, Department leadership, and other appropriate staff to ensure student, service, placement, and billing-related information is accurate across systems.
- Manage data across internal and external systems, including student information systems, state systems, reporting databases, applications, scheduling systems, attendance systems, parent portals, and other platforms utilized by the department.
- Coordinate database activities associated with student enrollment, referrals, evaluation