Title III Grant Data Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Gather reporting and analytical requirements with academic and administrative departments.
• Write, validate, maintain, and document SQL queries, data extracts, and recurring reports using university systems.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, visualizations, and self-service reporting resources using tools such as Power BI and Alteryx.
• Check data quality, reconcile systems, and investigate discrepancies with functional offices.
• Support scheduled and ad hoc reporting across enrollment, financial aid, student success, career services, finance, academic operations, compliance, and planning.
• Assist with institutional, state, federal, accreditation, and other required reporting.
• Document report definitions, business rules, data sources, query logic, schedules, and validation procedures.
• Improve reporting through reduced manual work, standardized metrics, and automation of repeatable tasks.
• Follow data privacy, security, access-control, and appropriate-use requirements.
• Communicate findings to technical and nontechnical audiences and guide report interpretation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience writing SQL queries and working with relational databases.
• Experience developing reports, data extracts, dashboards, or visualizations.
• Ability to translate business questions into reporting requirements.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills; ability to manage priorities, collaborate, and handle data discreetly.

Preferred qualifications

• Higher-education data analysis, reporting, or institutional research experience.
• Experience with one or more of Jenzabar, PowerFAIDS, Slate, Handshake, or Vault Campus.
• Experience with Power BI, Alteryx, InfoMaker, Python, R, APIs, Microsoft 365, or related tools.
• Familiarity with data governance, metric definitions, report validation, and role-based access.
• Experience automating recurring data preparation or reporting processes.

Work environment

• Work is normally performed in a typical interior office environment with limited physical risk and limited physical effort.

Compensation

• Salary is listed as USD 55,000–60,000 yearly.