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POLICY AND PLANNING ANALYST

Salary:

Minimum $65,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund. For a summary of benefits, please see https://www.wisconsin.edu/ohrwd/benefits/download/fasl.pdf

Job Summary:

The Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research (APIR; https://apir.wisc.edu ) is seeking an Institutional Policy and Planning Analyst to join its institutional research team. The analyst will focus on student and curricular issues and will help gather, investigate, analyze, and summarize institutional data to support strategic planning, policy development and policy evaluation, resource allocation, decision-making, and equity evaluation at the institutional level.

The Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research is a unit within the Office of the Provost that provides analytics related to the people (students and employees), academic programs (degrees, majors, certificates, and courses), and academic units (schools/colleges, departments, centers, and institutes) of UW-Madison. Our work facilitates the activities of the provost, deans, other campus leaders, and governance groups, includes linkages to budget and finance, and advances nationally important analytical initiatives.

Successful candidates are highly motivated, take initiative, can see the big picture, have strong problem-solving skills, are creative and curious, exercise good judgment and discretion, and are able to maintain a positive attitude in a dynamic workplace.

Responsibilities:

Institutional Policy Analyst I (Inst) (AD038)
Institutional Policy Analyst II (Inst) (AD039)

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.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Required
Master's Degree or other graduate or professional degree

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications
- Experience working with large data sets from operational data systems.
- Proficiency with a relational database query tool and SQL or similar database programming languages and experience validating data accuracy and remediating data-quality issues.
- Demonstrated experience using data and analytic approaches to evaluate the effects of policy decisions and inform policy development.
- Skill at presenting the results of data analysis at various levels of summarization in print, orally, and using interactive data visualization tools.
- Proficiency with statistical software (SAS, R, SPSS) and with general inferential statistical and predictive modeling concepts and techniques.
- Evidence of excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to complete tasks on a timeline and juggle multiple, simultaneous projects.

Preferred Qualifications
- Master's or professional degree focused on public policy/affairs, higher education, or educational administration/policy.
- Employment experience in a role that includes policy and analysis activities.
- Familiarity with relational database design and dimensional modeling.
- Experience working in college or university administration, preferably a large, decentralized, research university like UW-Madison.
- Knowledge of broad higher education issues and depth of knowledge in student-related areas such as enrollment planning, student experience, factors associated with student academic success and progress to degree, curricular and academic planning, budgeting, and higher education funding.
- Experience constructing data sets for analysis from multiple data sources.

COVID-19 Considerations:

UW-Madison continues to follow necessary health and safety protocols to protect our campus from COVID-19. All employees remain subject to the COVID-19 Workplace Safety Policy: https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-5086 . Please visit https://covidresponse.wisc.edu for the most up-to-date information.

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable


How to Apply:

To apply for this position, click the '' button. Applicants are asked to upload a cover letter and resume. Your cover letter should highlight your experience, knowledge, and skills as they relate to the listed qualifications for this job.

Contact:

Kory Breuer
kory.breuer@wisc.edu
608-264-3551
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. )

Official Title:

Inst Policy Analyst I (Inst)(AD038) or Inst Policy Analyst II (Inst)(AD039)

Department(s):

A011024-GENL EDUCATIONAL ADMIN/UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION/ACAD PLN

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

257691-AS



The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department .

Applications Open: May 3 2022 Central Daylight Time
Applications Close: May 30 2022 11:55 PM Central Daylight Time

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