Essential Functions

• Collaborate with IR&P and partners across the University to strategically design communications to share with the BC community on survey results, planning efforts, and institutional data.
• Maintain and improve a portfolio of annually-produced reports and visualizations.
• Create new infographics and striking visualizations to enhance IR&P projects.
• Prototype new methods for creating and displaying data visualizations (e.g. JavaScript and Python libraries, new business intelligence and artificial intelligence tools, etc.)
• Work with stakeholders to gather and synthesize requirements. Proactively create prototypes and suggest data presentations.
• Facilitate discussions to help colleagues and leaders better understand data and how they can use it.
• Collaborate with campus partners and Information Technology Services on the establishment, ongoing work, and analysis related to a University data governance program.

Title and salary commensurate with relevant experience based on the following titles and hiring ranges:
1-5 years of professional experience (non-senior): $59,560 - $74,450
5+years of professional experience (senior): $65,800 - $82,250

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• One year of experience in a quantitative discipline, as well as art or design.
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating strong visual design skills and innovative data visualization work for the web or print.
• Ability to effectively translate complex information into clear, understandable, and user-friendly presentations.
• Strong graphic design skills, including proficiency in the Adobe Design Suite (particularly Illustrator and InDesign).
• Ability to experiment with and learn various business intelligence tools, such as Cognos and Tableau.
• Basic web editing skills and the ability to learn more advanced development technologies, such as HTML5, CSS, or JavaScript.
• Have an attention to detail. Ability to spot errors and inconsistencies in large data sets.
• Basic understanding of descriptive statistics.
• Ability to synthesize findings to share with colleagues and determine how to apply to department needs.
• Ability to listen actively and ask questions to help the client clarify their goals and understanding around a problem, data, design, etc.
• Experience with data literacy or data governance efforts in higher education or elsewhere is a plus.

Closing Statement
 

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

• Tuition remission for Employees
• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Low-Cost Life Insurance
• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
• Paid Holidays Annually
• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
• Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process and requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.  Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity.

Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination.