Institutional Data Analyst
About The Position
In this role, you'll play a key part in helping the college use data to support strategic planning, accreditation, student success initiatives, program review, assessment, and continuous improvement. Your work will help leaders across the institution understand trends, measure outcomes, and make informed decisions that shape the future of the college. You'll extract, validate, analyze, and report data from a variety of institutional systems to support recurring and ad hoc information requests, mandatory state and federal reporting, and college planning efforts. You'll partner with employees across campus to identify information needs, develop effective data retrieval strategies, and create reports, dashboards, and visualizations that translate complex data into actionable insights. You'll also administer the college's survey platform, support the design and distribution of surveys, maintain key institutional data sets, and develop processes that promote consistency, quality, and data-informed decision-making. As a subject matter expert, you'll communicate findings to audiences ranging from department staff to college leadership and represent the college in conversations with state and regional agencies.
Requirements
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to work with complex data and find practical solutions.
- Detail-oriented.
- Committed to data integrity.
- Ability to communicate quantitative and qualitative findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
- Understanding of higher education data and accountability.
- Collaborative, service-focused approach to supporting colleagues across the institution.
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of two years full-time equivalent experience to include working with relational databases and extraction and analysis tools such as SAP Business Objects, Access, Excel, SQL, and data visualization software; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Responsibilities
- Extract, validate, analyze, and report data from a variety of institutional systems to support recurring and ad hoc information requests, mandatory state and federal reporting, and college planning efforts.
- Partner with employees across campus to identify information needs, develop effective data retrieval strategies, and create reports, dashboards, and visualizations that translate complex data into actionable insights.
- Administer the college's survey platform.
- Support the design and distribution of surveys.
- Maintain key institutional data sets.
- Develop processes that promote consistency, quality, and data-informed decision-making.
- Communicate findings to audiences ranging from department staff to college leadership.
- Represent the college in conversations with state and regional agencies.
Benefits
- Retirement
- 15 vacation days per year
- 12 sick days per year
- 14 paid holidays
- Tuition assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
