Job Description

This position is essential to helping Academic Affairs make data-informed decisions, prioritize student outreach with strategic analytic data, and efficiently scale effective initiatives. Alongside operational analytics, assessment and reporting needs, this role will support divisional leadership business analytic exercises that evaluate the effectiveness of efforts and identify opportunities to maximize impact. The sophistication of this work requires both technical and analytical skills.

We are seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst OR a Business Intelligence Analyst, Intermediate.

Responsibilities

Data Extraction & Analysis

  • Gather and analyze key data elements to inform business processes.
  • Produce reports, queries, data representations based on strategic questions/strategic initiatives.
  • Understand and apply knowledge of appropriate handling of university business intelligence data.
  • Interpret information for key stakeholders and provide recommendations for change through data analysis.

Data-Informed Decision Making

  • Promote a culture of evidence through a commitment to data-informed decision making that informs current and future efforts.
  • Collect, extract and analyze appropriate data sources through query or other method to inform or define work.
  • Utilize both quantitative and qualitative data sources and valid assessment tactics to make meaning.
  • Understand and utilize descriptive and more sophisticated statistical and visualization techniques.
  • Review and analyze complex data sets to identify patterns, interpret them, hypothesize about root causes, and suggest actions.

Communication

  • Effectively share and disseminate complex information throughout the organization.
  • Distill important conclusions and recommendations in writing to facilitate broad understanding throughout team.
  • Collaborate with team to ensure that data sources, practices, and learnings are documented and transparent to interested parties.

Other

  • Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Education or Social Science.
  • Experience with data extraction and interpretation.
  • Experience with data sources in an educational context, with SQL or other query language extraction.
  • Experience with assessment practices.
  • 5-10 years of related experience.

Salary Range

$51,000 – $73,434, commensurate with candidate’s qualifications and experience

This position is eligible for hybrid (Flagstaff-based) or fully-remote work (must reside in Arizona).

Please apply at https://in.nau.edu/human-resources/current-job-openings/

Job ID: 608295