Data Analyst
- Job Name
- Data Analyst
- Posting Date
- 07/30/2021
- Brief Description
- The New School is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that promises diversity and tolerance in all areas of employment, education and access to its educational, artistic or cultural programs and activities. The New School does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, creed, sex or gender (including actual or perceived gender identity or expression or transgender status), sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, pregnancy, religion, religious practices, mental or physical disability, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, veteran status, marital or partnership status, or any other legally protected status.
In this defining moment for The New School, the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support is playing a critical role. The New School is the only university with a renowned design school and premier colleges focusing on the performing and liberal arts and social sciences, working together toward a more just, more beautiful, better-designed world. Reporting to the Assistant Director, Institutional Research, the ideal candidate for this position will be energetic and committed to communicating information grounded in quality data analysis to a wide audience in the language they understand – be that visual representations in Tableau, Excel pivot tables, or models with user input. Experience working in a fast-paced environment and being flexible to changing priorities are required. A self-starting, resourceful, early-career data scientist with analytical skills, attention to detail, problem-solving and decision-making abilities is the ideal candidate. The New School is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and particularly seeks applications from members of underrepresented groups, as well as candidates who share this commitment.
Responsibilities
The person in this position will assist in providing data extraction, quality control, descriptive statistical analysis, data visualization and communication support for student information data in support of academic planning and institutional reporting. This is a full-time position, with the following responsibilities:
Using SQL, create queries of student data from appropriate enterprise student information systems
Working fluently and independently in Excel, perform data quality control, join data sets with vlookup, and develop reports with pivot tables
Perform various data quality functions for data from multiple systems such as profile, cleanse, validate, and audit to ensure data quality and integrity
Create Tableau workbooks, dashboards, Excel reports, and summary tables (suitable for PowerPoint and Adobe PDF) to support academic planning decisions
Combine and analyze data from five or more different sources.
Lead and participate in projects that require advanced data and business analysis skills, including best in practice methodologies and modeling
Working both independently and in a team, provide strategic and tactical, data based, solutions and recommendations to senior leadership
Perform other work-related duties as assigned
- Job Category
- Institutional Research
- Job Type
- Full-Time
- Education Level Required
- Bachelors
- Location City
- New York, NY 10011, United states
- How to Apply
- https://careers.newschool.edu/postings/19931
- Direct Link
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