Data Analyst - Research Data Management

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Data Analyst supports research and organizational reporting by integrating, maintaining, checking, and cleaning data from funded research studies and applicable databases. The role analyzes workflows across functional areas to identify improvements and relationships, particularly in data reporting, extraction, and analytics. It designs, develops, documents, tests, and deploys reports, database queries, exports, communications, and dashboards, and establishes processes, including possible automation, to produce accurate and user-friendly reporting. The position collects, organizes, segments, analyzes, validates, and shares data to communicate performance against key performance indicators. It identifies and interprets trends in complex data, draws conclusions that support performance measurement and improvement, and recommends solutions. It also monitors communication return on investment and online engagement, contributes to data management strategy, and works with organizational teams to understand business requirements and improve data flow, availability, quality, and reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required; leadership may accept six years of applicable experience in lieu of education.

Nice To Haves

Two or more years of experience in business, finance, data science, statistics, information management, analytics, fundraising, or a related field.
Experience operating reporting and analytic tools, such as Raiser's Edge.

Responsibilities

Integrate data into and maintain applicable databases and supporting databases.
Learn and analyze process workflows across functional areas to identify improvements and associations related to reporting, extraction, and analytics.
Design, develop, document, test, and deploy custom reports, database queries, and data exports.
Collect, organize, segment, analyze, validate, and disseminate information to communicate performance against key performance indicators.
Use database reporting environments and complex queries to develop standard, ad-hoc, and custom reports, communications, and dashboards for internal and external recipients.
Establish and implement processes, including potential automation, to streamline data extraction and produce accurate, user-friendly reports and analytics.
Identify, analyze, research, and interpret trends and patterns in complex data sets; provide recommendations and possible solutions.
Draw conclusions from data to support performance measurement, improvement, and outcomes.
Monitor and analyze return on investment for communication activities, including events, mailings, and digital communications.
Use outside sources, including social media and digital analytics, to monitor online engagement and marketing performance.
Assist leadership in creating and executing a data management strategy, recommending improvements to data flow, availability, and quality.
Work with organizational teams to understand business requirements and goals and provide effective service.
Seek process improvements and monitor feedback to recommend information system modifications that support accurate reporting and analysis.
Seek additional information, knowledge, and training to better understand the database system.