Data Specialist

University of Toronto • Scarborough, ON

2d • CA$86,340 - CA$110,415 • Hybrid

About The Position

The University of Toronto Scarborough is a place of energy, enthusiasm and passion. Our commitment to inclusive excellence attracts the brightest learners, scholars and employees from around the globe. Our success has been made possible by the opportunity given to us by Indigenous hosts to operate on their territory, and we cherish our continuing partnerships with these communities. The University of Toronto Scarborough is an exciting campus with unlimited potential. Join us on our journey.
Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) provides leadership in educational excellence through supporting and inspiring transformative and inclusive teaching and learning at the University of Toronto Scarborough. We do this by: Engaging with all students, individually and through course support and other learning initiatives, to enhance foundational skills required for coursework and beyond; advising and collaborating with all instructors and staff to support an interactive community of scholarly teaching excellence, inquiry, and innovation; leading and collaborating on educational technologies and active learning spaces, which are responsive to the changing needs of our instructors and students; building bridges and leveraging relationships with other partners and communities to support pedagogical research, encourage current and lifelong learning, and deepen CTL's impact and influence across academic programming at UTSC; and fostering integrity, responsibility and transparent decision making in our teaching and learning practices and collaborative endeavours.
This search aligns with the University’s commitment to strategically and proactively promote diversity among our community members (Statement on Equity, Diversity & Excellence). Recognizing that Black, Indigenous, and other Racialized communities have experienced inequities that have developed historically and are ongoing, we strongly welcome and encourage candidates from those communities to apply.
The Data Specialist will report to the Manager, Finance and Administration, Centre for Teaching and Learning. This role presents an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented and analytical professional to support data management, reporting, and business intelligence activities that inform strategic decision-making across the Centre. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing a comprehensive data framework and integrated data systems for the Centre, including the development and implementation of processes for data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting across multiple data sources; ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and accessibility; creating meaningful reports and dashboards; analyzing trends and performance metrics; and delivering actionable insights that enhance operational effectiveness that support the Centre's academic and administrative objectives.
Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders, the Data Specialist will play a key role in leveraging data to drive continuous improvement, evidence-based planning, and organizational success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Business Administration, Social Sciences with a strong quantitative focus, Computer Science, Informatics or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum five years of relevant and related experience in data management, reporting, analytics, business intelligence, program evaluation, or a related field
• Experience working with a variety of data sources, including program participation data, survey data, institutional data, learning management system data (LMS), and operational data
• Experience within a post-secondary educational environment
• Strong collaboration skills with experience working with faculty, staff, administrators, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, pedagogical researchers, and other institutional stakeholders
• Minimum two years’ experience extracting, cleaning, validating, and analyzing data using advanced Excel, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, and manipulating data in Python, or other analytics tools
• Minimum two years’ experience maintaining databases and ensuring data accuracy, integrity, consistency, and compliance with data governance standards
• Demonstrated ability to interpret policies, procedures, and business requirements and apply them appropriately in data collection, reporting, and analysis activities
• Experience identifying trends, patterns, and opportunities through quantitative and qualitative data analysis and developing dashboards, reports, performance metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and data visualizations that support decision-making.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills with a high degree of accuracy and attendtion to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present data findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience and understanding of current best practices regarding data security and authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth 2.0 and OTPs)

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of privacy, confidentiality, and information management requirements related to institutional data is an asset
• Knowledge of Python’s SciKit Learn is an asset
• Basic knowledge of SQL (PostGres) is an asset
• Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS is an asset
• Experience with AWS tools (DynamoDB, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)) is an asset

Responsibilities

• Updating and maintaining database records
• Generating regular downloads from the database
• Running queries to gather data
• Producing complex statistical information
• Interpreting policies in decision-making and providing significant input into local policies, procedures and practices that are referred to in future interpretation questions
• Generating reports

What This Job Offers

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