Higher Education Analytics Senior Consultant

Attain Partners

4h•$100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Higher Education Analytics Senior Consultant will design and deliver reporting, dashboard, and analytics solutions for higher education institutions, with a primary focus on Advancement, fundraising, alumni engagement, and constituent data. This role will work directly with institutional stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define key performance indicators, analyze data, and translate business needs into actionable dashboards and visualizations. The Senior Consultant will serve as both a client-facing advisor and hands-on analytics practitioner, primarily using Tableau and Tableau Next. The role will also collaborate with data engineering, integration, CRM, and functional teams to validate data sources, establish reporting logic, support testing, and improve the usability and adoption of analytics solutions.

Requirements

Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying Tableau dashboards and reports.
Training and certification in Tableau.
Knowledge of or experience with Tableau Next.
Experience working with Higher Education Advancement, fundraising, alumni relations, or constituent data.
Ability to translate business requirements into dashboards, metrics, data visualizations, and reporting solutions.
Strong understanding of data visualization principles and dashboard design best practices.
Experience facilitating requirements and design sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
Strong SQL, data analysis, and data-validation skills.
Ability to document reporting requirements, business rules, data definitions, and test results.
Strong client-facing communication, presentation, and workshop-facilitation skills.
Ability to manage multiple deliverables within a consulting or project-based environment.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data visualization, or a related field.
Minimum of 2 years of experience working with Higher Education Advancement, fundraising, alumni, or constituent data.
Prior consulting or client-facing delivery experience is strongly preferred.
Tableau certification, such as: Tableau Certified Data Analyst, Tableau Desktop Specialist, Comparable current Tableau certification.
Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients.
Experience supporting sales and business development.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Power BI.
Experience with Salesforce CRM Analytics.
Knowledge of Salesforce Education Cloud for Advancement or other Salesforce-based Advancement solutions.
Experience with Advancement platforms such as Ellucian Advance, Blackbaud CRM, Raiser’s Edge, Slate, or similar systems.
Familiarity with Tableau Next and Salesforce Data Cloud capabilities.
Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or Azure.
Knowledge of Advancement concepts, including gifts, pledges, campaigns, funds, designations, prospects, portfolios, moves management, alumni engagement, and constituent households.
Experience building executive dashboards, fundraiser performance dashboards, campaign reporting, pipeline analytics, and constituent engagement reporting.
Experience supporting reporting assessments, dashboard rationalization, data governance, or analytics modernization initiatives.
Consulting experience within Higher Education, nonprofit, or public-sector organizations.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver reporting, dashboard, and analytics solutions for higher education institutions, with a primary focus on Advancement, fundraising, alumni engagement, and constituent data.
Work directly with institutional stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define key performance indicators, analyze data, and translate business needs into actionable dashboards and visualizations.
Serve as both a client-facing advisor and hands-on analytics practitioner, primarily using Tableau and Tableau Next.
Collaborate with data engineering, integration, CRM, and functional teams to validate data sources, establish reporting logic, support testing, and improve the usability and adoption of analytics solutions.
Facilitate requirements and design sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
Document reporting requirements, business rules, data definitions, and test results.
Manage multiple deliverables within a consulting or project-based environment.
Build trusted advisor relationships with clients.
Support sales and business development.