Planning Analyst

Arizona State University•Tempe, AZ

1d•$54,600 - $70,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Planning Analyst manages, analyzes, integrates, quality-checks, and communicates institutional quality data under the direction of a senior analyst or supervisor. The data includes measures of reputation, student success, enrollment, financial aid, citations, and awards used for benchmarking, drawn from ASU and external data sources. The role contributes to statistical and written reports, presentations, and data visualizations. The position supports the Institutional Quality data team in the Office of the University Provost. The team manages, analyzes, and communicates data and recommends actions to help ASU benchmark, improve, and demonstrate its quality nationally and globally. The position is expected to work on-site at ASU’s Tempe campus; hybrid opportunities may be available. Out-of-area candidates may apply, but relocation expenses are not covered.

Requirements

Associate's degree and one year of experience appropriate to the assignment or field, or an equivalent combination of experience and/or training demonstrating comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree.
Knowledge of data extraction, management, and visualization methods and practices, and relational database, spreadsheet, statistical, and presentation software, such as Alteryx and Tableau.
Understanding of the U.S. higher-education landscape.
Experience building, managing, and analyzing datasets that integrate disparate statistical and financial information, and analyzing complex data or problems.
Analytical skills, including quantitative and qualitative data analysis, policy analysis, and effective and efficient problem solving.
Experience discerning trends and patterns in data and identifying relationships between interconnected metrics.
Experience in strategic planning, project management, team management, and partnership building.
Effective communication skills, including graphic presentation of data.
Interpersonal skills.
Openness to receiving feedback.
Curiosity in exploring data and discovering insights.
Experience working effectively in an environment with quickly changing and potentially conflicting priorities.
Experience identifying appropriate data sources and extracting and manipulating data from multiple, varied database sources by designing, refining, and running complex data queries.
Experience with and aptitude for learning technology and software.

Responsibilities

Manage and analyze data on student success, enrollment, financial aid, and other measures of higher-education quality.
Identify gaps between current realities and benchmarks and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Help convene meetings and share information with staff in other units to exchange best practices and interpretations of data.
Compile and manage data.
Analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative data, and review and validate results with a senior analyst or designee.
Communicate with internal and external constituencies to obtain necessary information.
Prepare drafts of technical reports, presentations, and visualizations for review; incorporate feedback into final versions.
Use data programs and software for data computation, statistical analysis, and visualization of critical or key metrics.
Explain analyses, plans, or analytical reports to senior administrators when requested.