EXECUTIVE DATA ANALYST

Posting Number: SRGV3767
Number of Vacancies: 1
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Department: EVP Academic Affairs Student Success & P16
FLSA: Exempt

Scope of Job:
Manage the delivery of critical actionable data and advanced analytics designed to support division-wide planning, budgeting, academic and administrative program assessment, and strategic decision-making in support of student success, and institutional improvement.

Description of Duties:
• Works closely with senior administration, faculty, and staff including institutional reporting and analytics teams to provide accurate, timely, and relevant data for internal use and other required internal and external reports.
• Represents the priorities of the Executive Office, convenes schools/units for collaboration on reporting and data needs, and supports the development of a university vision for data support and decision-making.
• Oversees and coordinates the generation and distribution of actionable data reports (both recurring and ad hoc), including specifying, coding, testing, and deploying reports.
• Provides actionable research and assessment results and disseminates results to departments, units, and decision-making groups.
• Assists the division leadership team with deploying strategic research to drive the understanding of actionable data as well as identify opportunities to improve data quality, business intelligence tools, and existing reporting mechanisms.
• Oversees the collection and organization of data as requested for institutional research and reporting purposes.
• Develops benchmarks, databases, dashboards, and other tools to support research, planning, compliance, and decision-making processes.
• Completes projects that require data mining, analysis, and presentation.
• Provides focused data analysis to identify problems or trends, reduce unnecessary cost and/or increase ROI, and drive better decisions.
• Conducts market research and analyses to identify opportunities for program development or enhancement.
• Constructs and provides deliverables for special projects as assigned by the division head.
• Stays abreast of trends in institutional research, survey research, data management and visualization, predictive analytics and business intelligence tools.
• Actively pursues professional development and participates in relevant professional organizations and university committees.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received:
General supervision from assigned executive leadership.

Supervision Given:
Direct supervision of assigned staff.

Required Education:
Master’s degree in education, statistics, or related field from an accredited university.

Preferred Education:
N/A

Licenses/Certifications:
Working knowledge of statistical software packages (SPSS, SAS); graphical software, database query languages (SQL); as well as visualization and reporting tools (Tableau, OBIEE).

Required Experience:
• Three (3) years of experience in statistics, statistical analysis, research design, quantitative and/or research methods, or
• Four (4) years of the required experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in education, statistics, or related field from an accredited university.

Preferred Experience:
Experience with data collection methods, sampling, and data analysis and report preparation. desirable.

Equipment:
Use of standard office equipment.

Working Conditions:
Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Office Environment; some travel and weekend work is required.

Other:
Experience in areas of research design and statistical analysis, quantitative and research methods.

Physical Capabilities: N/A
Employment Category: Full-Time
Minimum Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Posted Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Position Available Date: 02/15/2019
Grant Funded Position: No
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EEO Statement:
UTRGV is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to hire without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or veteran status. UTRGV takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Special Instructions to Applicants:
Dear Applicant,

Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following:

*Date of Birth
*Social Security Number
*Gender
*Ethnicity/Race

Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley reserves the right to discontinue accepting applications prior to the stated close date of this position, after meeting the posting requirement of three (3) calendar days.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (956)665-8880 and/or careers@utrgv.edu.

Additional Information:
UTRGV is a distributed location institution and working location is subject to change based on need.

All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the Chief Human Resources Officer.

To apply, visit https://careers.utrgv.edu/postings/20480





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