Data and Policy Analyst

Universities of Wisconsin • Madison, WI

1d • $70,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Data and Policy Analysts in the Graduate School work on graduate program data assessment, national surveys and reports, data visualizations, exit surveys, and adhoc data requests, along with interacting with other campus data stakeholders including the Office of Data, Academic Planning, and Institutional Research under the Provost. The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of graduate education and the operations of a major research university. This position reports directly to the Assistant Dean for Academic Analysis, Planning, and Assessment. The person in this role investigates, researches, gathers, analyzes, and summarizes institutional data in support of information to meet the needs for planning and policy-making decisions. More specifically, this role provides management information, data analyses, and visualizations to inform strategic planning, decision-making, and resource allocation at the institutional level. This position also provides advice to, and performance management support for Graduate School leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years of experience working in a role that includes data analysis functions (6+ years required for Senior level).
• 2+ years of experience creating, manipulating and extracting information from large datasets (4+ years required for Senior level).
• Knowledge of statistical techniques and survey tools, such as Qualtrics and SQL.
• Proficiency in building database tables from other data sets, Excel, text, XML and/or other file types.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree (or equivalent).
• Experience in higher education.
• Knowledge of issues faced in graduate education.
• Proficiency in Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and disseminates institutional statistical reports to institutional programs, working units, and leadership (30%)
• Provides analysis and consultation on a variety of administrative-related matters. Applies expert level subject matter knowledge to support institutional decisions and policymaking through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems (10%)
• Designs, collects, analyzes, and researches institutional data according to established procedures and regulations (30%)
• Works on topics that are increasingly complex and on matters that have significant impact to institutional operations (5%)
• Participates in establishing guidelines and procedures to ensure adequacy, quality, and reliability of information sources to ensure information systems and databases manage, store, and retrieve institutional data according to established policies, procedures, and reporting regulations (15%)
• Serves as liaison and primary contact to internal and external stakeholders for institutional reporting and compliance, external surveys, and institutional statistics and data (10%)

Benefits

• This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level