Data Analyst

Data Analyst

Company:
North Carolina State University

Job Location:

Category:
Laboratory and Research

Type:
Full-Time

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Location: Raleigh, NC

Essential Job Duties:
The Data Analyst will be charged with assisting the Director in carrying out the mission of DASA Assessment. The position is in a highly productive environment and the person in the role will need to have very strong problem solving skills and be flexible, independent, detail-oriented and willing to produce work at a high volume. A strong work ethic is required.

The Data Analyst will be responsible for the following:

• Conducting descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, including regression, forecasting, and modeling for DASA
• Conducting data analysis on participation data, rubric data, survey data, and student retention and graduation data
• Analyzing factors that influence DASA programs and units impact on the student experience
• Analyzing the effectiveness of DASA practices to promote the success of all students
• Ensuring the use of best practices within student success/higher education in data collection, analysis, and interpretation to support DASA units
• Supervising graduate student staff on job duties related to data analysis and reporting to support DASA units
• Consulting on projects with DASA faculty, staff, and administrators toward sound assessment methodologies and data collection
• Using student information systems to run queries, extract, and clean data for DASA
• Oversee the use of the predictive modeling for student success
• Providing ad hoc data analysis (participation, graduation, retention rates, etc.) for DASA
• Administering division surveys in Qualtrics
• Providing Qualtrics support to the faculty and staff of DASA
• Assessing and ensuring data integrity and validation
• Assisting with workshops and presentations for DASA
• Developing and delivering reports/presentations to various audiences

Other Work/Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Experience/Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• At least two years of progressively responsible technical research or statistical experience, including hands-on use of statistical software such as SPSS, Stata, R, or equivalent for data analysis and regression modeling.

Required Qualifications:

• Skill in qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Demonstrated ability to conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, including regression, forecasting, and modeling.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with information systems, data warehouses, and related business intelligence tools.
• Experience applying predictive modeling or machine learning methods in a higher education context.
• Demonstrated technical expertise developing queries and reports from enterprise information systems and data warehouses.
• Ability to communicate clearly to a variety of constituents in both oral and written formats
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively to accomplish goals
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and work efficiently under pressure and changing priorities
• Strong team member
• Self-directed and visionary in overall areas of responsibility
• Self-directed learner
• Creative problem-solver
• Ability to work with varied faculty and staff from multiple disciplines and functions

Required License or Certification:
N/A