ACADEMIC DATA ANALYST

Salary:

Minimum $70,100 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The typical starting salary for this position is $70,100 - $100,000 depending on qualifications and experience. The full salary range for this position is $70,100- $130,000. Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and saving accounts; and retirement benefits.

Job Summary:

The Academic Data Analyst will support L&S TLA's mission of intentional and data informed support of excellence in teaching, academic planning, and academic administration. Our unit sits at the intersection of budget, human resources, academic planning, and departments as it relates to instruction. Our unit's mission is operational and many interactions and projects are of 'here and now' type. We are looking for someone who is practical, creative, and responsive to the changing landscape.

The analyst will use available institutional data and information from different sources on campus to synthesize, provide data analysis, and create tools and reports to assist with strategic decision making both at the college level and department level. Examples could include:
- Course Access: develop automated analytic approaches that help the college understand enrollment trends, monitor the first year enrollment registration period, and identify where we might expect to have capacity gaps, especially in critical courses.
- Instructional Budgeting: Support college-level budgetary decisions by providing data and analysis as it relates to credits, courses, and payroll.
- Curricular and Instructional consulting: Provide consultation, curricular and student outcome data and analysis for departmental initiatives to improve student learning.

Responsibilities:

Investigates, researches, gathers, analyzes, and summarizes institutional data in support of information and research needs for planning and policy-making decisions. Provides management information, data analyses, and policy reports to inform strategic planning, decision-making, and resource allocation at the school, college, or divisional level. Provides advice to, and performance management support for a school, college, or division's leadership.

• 25% Provides analysis and consultation on a variety of administrative-related matters. Applies subject matter knowledge to support decisions and policymaking through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems
• 25% Designs, collects, analyzes, and researches data according to established procedures and regulations
• 25% Prepares and disseminates statistical reports to institutional programs, working units, and leadership
• 5% Serves as liaison and contact to school, college, or divisional stakeholders reporting and compliance, external surveys, and statistics and data
• 5% Participates in establishing guidelines and procedures to ensure adequacy, quality, and reliability of information sources to ensure information systems and databases manage, store, and retrieve data according to established policies, procedures, and reporting regulations
• 15% Research and apply available data analysis tools to streamline the unit's work.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

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Education:

Required
Bachelor's Degree

Qualifications:

Required:
1. One year of professional experience answering organizational or research questions by analyzing moderately large datasets to create reports or analyses.
2. Demonstrated ability to write moderately complex SQL queries to manipulate and analyze relational data sets.
3. Demonstrated ability to import, combine, and modify data from multiple data sources.
4. Demonstrated skills at presenting the results of data analysis at various levels of summarization in print, orally, and visually.

Preferred:
1. One year of experience working in higher education administration.
2. Demonstrated experience using data and analytic approaches to evaluate the effects of policy decisions and inform policy development.
3. One year of experience using general statistical analysis methods, and/or constructing
data analyses and associated scripts in statistical software packages such as SPSS, SAS, or Stata, or analysis packages created for R or Python.
4. One year of experience with interactive data visualization tools.

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable


Additional Information:

The successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring eligibility for employment in the United States on or before the effective date of the appointment. University sponsorship is not available for this position.

How to Apply:

We are eager to learn more about how your experience and passion may align with this position.

Please submit a cover letter and a resume that addresses how you meet the required qualifications, and, more specifically, how you have used data and data analysis to inform a unit's or organization's action and decision making.

Please also include contact information for three professional references, including your current supervisor. References will not be contacted without advance notice.

Contact:

Kimbrin Cornelius
kimbrin.cornelius@wisc.edu
608-890-3827
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Official Title:

Policy and Planning Analyst II(AD082)

Department(s):

A48-COL OF LETTERS & SCIENCE/ADMINISTRATION/ADMIN

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

275798-AS



The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

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Applications Open: Mar 10 2023 Central Standard Time
Applications Close: Apr 9 2023 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time