# Required Data Analyst with School Interoperability Framewor **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 7, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/required-data-analyst-with-school-interoperability-framewor/53506 "2006-02-07T22:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sri\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Sri\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sri_Rao)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/required-data-analyst-with-school-interoperability-framewor/53506/1 "2006-02-07T22:24:51Z")
Required Data Analyst with School Interoperability Framework Location: Columbus,OHIO DURATION: 8 MONHTS(LIKELY TO GET EXTENDED BASED ON CLIENT DISCRETION BUT MOST LIKELY) Rate: Competitive ODE desires to procure a candidate with extensive experience and expertise with education data, at both the state and federal level, and experience in analysis and documentation related to data standards, specifically the School Interoperability Framework (SIF) specifications. The candidate should be able to deliver assignments in a timely, high-quality manner. The STS vendor will state an hourly rate for this work and bill monthly for requested support services at this rate. The hours of support paid under this contract will not exceed 1600 hours. Scope This initiative is a time and material engagement for analysis and technical documenting services not to exceed 1600 hours, ending no later than December 2007,performing the following tasks:The resource will conduct a detailed item-by-item analysis of the current EMIS data elements to assess alignment with the SIF data standards and specifications. If a standard does not already exist for a data element, in collaboration with SIF, a standard would be created. Upon completion of the EMIS SIF analysis, SIF analysis effort would then extend from the EMIS data elements (vertical reporting from the locals to the state) into the vertical reporting requirements of ODE to the United States Department of Education Skills Required 1. A minimum of 5 years experience in education data management at the state,local or federal level. 2. Experience in performing analysis related to data standards, specifically the School Interoperability Framework (SIF) 3. Experience with and knowledge of data collected by the U.S. Department of Education 4. The candidate should be able to deliver assignments in a timely, high-quality manner.Ohio Department of EducationProject Managers Office 5. Applicants must have excellent written and oral communication skills. This person should be capable of performing effectively in a team, or alone andunsupervised. 6. Experience in documenting data element, data definitions and data standards Project Management The project will be managed by the Project Director and a Project Manager (assigned by the ODE Project Manager Office (PMO)) using the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) framework and methodologies. Issues Management and Change Management are addressed therein and the use of these processes will ensure adequate oversight of the effort. All project communications will go through the Project Director. Status Reporting The consultant will provide weekly written status reporting and exception-level status reporting to the PMO project manager. The consultant will participate in regular status briefings at the manager’s request. Schedule The consultant will be responsible for meeting all timelines designated by the Project Director and the project manager. All work for this project will be completed by December 1, 2007. The consultant will also submit weekly timesheets to be signed by the Project Manager or a person designated by the Project Manager. Vendor Personnel The vendor must replace, in a timely manner, any personnel whose skills the ODE.Project Director or Project Manager determines to be inadequate to perform the tasks required. The vendor must obtain equally-qualified replacement personnel for any personnel who become unavailable during the course of the project. Participation in Meetings The consultant will participate in meetings with personnel or groups recommended by the project manager and the project director. Deliverables This is not a deliverables based engagement, but based upon the nature of the support,some enhancements may require a formal signoff and if so, the following will apply. Deliverable 01: Analysis and documentation that maps education data elements to existing SIF standards - including identification of the gaps where standards to not exist and assistance in working with SIF to develop standards when gaps exist. This encompasses the following data: 1. All data collected through the Education Management Information System(EMIS) Ohio Department of Education Project Managers Office 2. All data required to be reported to the U.S. Dept. of Education for purposes of the Performance Based Management Initiative (PBDMI) 3. All data required as part of the state and part of the federal performance accountability system. Thank you Regards Srikumar removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Sri\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Sri\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sri_Rao)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/required-data-analyst-with-school-interoperability-framewor/53506/2 "2006-02-08T00:20:51Z")
Exactly where is the specific phrase, “MUST have knowledge of the Ruby programming language”? 🙂 Tsume