Data Analyst

Job summary

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports; analyze trends across academic, student, research, financial, and operational data.
• Report on enrollment, retention, scholarships, post-graduation outcomes, course access, graduate education, research activity, and budget metrics.
• Prepare work for program reviews, accreditation, rankings submissions, and strategic planning.
• Track policy-relevant information sources, support data visualization and BI capability, and prepare policy analyses and briefing papers.
• Support unit initiatives, review analyses as decision-making evidence, and help establish reliable information-source procedures.

Compensation

• Minimum starting salary is $75,000, with flexibility based on qualifications and experience.

Benefits

• Benefits include vacation, holidays, paid time off, insurance and savings accounts, and retirement benefits.

Required qualifications

• At least one year of professional large-dataset analysis experience producing reports and analyses for organizational, operational, policy, or research questions.
• Proficiency querying relational databases using SQL or similar languages; experience with large operational datasets.
• Experience assessing data quality, validating results, and investigating discrepancies across data sources and reporting systems.
• Ability to manage competing projects accurately and with attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel including Pivot Tables and Power Query, and PowerPoint.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience evaluating policy or program outcomes, or one year in higher education administration.
• One year applying statistical analysis and/or producing reproducible analyses with R, Python, SAS, Stata, or SPSS.
• Dashboard, reporting, or visualization experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or similar tools.
• High-stakes reporting or compliance experience; stakeholder collaboration to define analytical questions and requirements.