DATA STRATEGIST – FULL-TIME
KENNEDY-KING COLLEGE
Kennedy-King College is seeking a dynamic and analytical Data
Strategist to help advance institutional excellence through
data-informed decision-making. This highly visible role serves as a
strategic partner to senior leadership, transforming complex data
into actionable insights that enhance organizational performance
and support student success. The Data Strategist supports
institutional planning, performance measurement, and strategic
decision-making by conducting advanced analyses, developing
dashboards and reports, and delivering actionable recommendations
to leaders across the college. This role combines analytics,
strategic consulting, and organizational planning to help advance
institutional goals and improve student outcomes.
In this role, you will analyze complex datasets, collaborate with
leaders across multiple departments, develop interactive dashboards
and reporting tools, conduct predictive analyses, and present
insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders. This
position offers a unique opportunity to influence strategy, drive
continuous improvement, and promote a culture of data-informed
decision-making throughout the institution. Kennedy-King College is
committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcomes
applications from individuals who are passionate about advancing
student success through data and innovation.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Provide data and analytic support: Conduct strategic data
analysis, identify insights and implications from institutional
data and make strategic recommendations to executive and senior
staff. Develop data displays that clearly communicate complex
analyses to multiple audiences, including executive and senior
staff.
Facilitate performance metric monitoring: Monitor District and
college strategic metrics through performance dialog forums. Work
with staff at different levels of the organization to create
metrics, set goals and conduct analyses; use operational data in
real time to develop and execute action plans focused on improving
institutional practices, policies, procedures and ultimately
student success. Build structures, tools and routines to
institutionalize a data-driven culture of student success.
Work cross-functionally across the organization: Maintain
cross-functional visibility across all departments to help push
strategic initiatives forward and surface critical issues. Provide
ongoing oversight and support to management and decision making to
ensure that measures are being used to effectively manage
operations and effect institutional change.
Develop and refine institutional data capacity through data
use: Support development of district/college-wide data collection,
analysis and dissemination of policies and practices; train
researchers and staff to make meaningful data connections.
Develop and refine institutional data capacity through
knowledge sharing: facilitate regular reviews with district/college
team; synthesize and share key insights across projects. Develop,
maintain and train teams on infrastructure (such as Sharepoint) to
support knowledge management.
Develop and refine institutional data capacity through capacity
building: Help staff use data in real-time, lead data capacity
building trainings on data literacy. Support development tools,
templates, and reports that address the needs of building data
capacity across CCC.
QUALIFICATIONS
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in
a quantitative discipline such as statistics, business,
mathematics, economics public policy; or a related field of
study.
- A Master’s degree is highly preferred.
- Three years of relevant research experience, with demonstrated
experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods and
statistics
- A combination of education and experience may be taken into
consideration based on the applicant’s credentials provided the
minimum degree requirement is met
- High level of proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Word,
Excel, PowerPoint)
- Moderate to high level of proficiency with SQL programming or
data query
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization
tools preferred
- Experience with statistical analysis software such as SA, R,
STATA, highly desirable
- Experience in quantitative statistical analysis highly
desirable
- Experience in the development of performance metrics and
continuous improvement systems and tools desirable
- Familiarity with Access and SQL data query skills a plus
The salary range for this position is $70,251 -
$75,000.
Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education,
knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as other factors such as
internal equity.
Benefits information is found at
https://www.ccc.edu/departments/Benefits/
Chicago residency is required for all full-time employees within
six months of hire.
City Colleges of Chicago is an affirmative action equal
opportunity employer.
Thank you for your interest in City Colleges of
Chicago!