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Job Description:

The Solutions and Analytics Team within Mizzou Online delivers scalable, high-performing analytic dashboards, reports, and insights to stakeholders at MU. We are seeking an analyst to help discover actionable data from a variety of higher education sources. The ideal candidate will enjoy transforming data into easy-to-use reports and dashboards, and have a service-oriented mindset with a strong desire to help stakeholders uncover insights from learning-related datasets.

Job Responsibilities:

Analyzes and validates data:

Analyzes and interprets data sets specific to higher education to uncover insights, patterns, trends, and associated success metrics.

Ensures accuracy and validity of queries and the data being produced.

Organizes and models data:

Organizes primary data and adds supporting data for use in data
visualization, dashboard creation, reporting, and ad hoc requests.

Organize and model data using SQL.

Collaborates with stakeholders:

Coordinates and collaborates with stakeholders and other subject matter experts to develop and provide basic actionable information in support of improvement initiatives.

Promotes the use of data to answer questions in support of unit goals.

Builds reports and presentations:

Using the collected data and information gathered from meeting with stakeholders, creates routine reports, dashboards, and presentations that are easy to read and interpret.

Uses data visualization tools to present results and information.
Documentation and continuous improvement

Maintains documentation for data management, analysis and reporting activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience and at least 2 years of experience from which comparable knowledge and skills can be acquired is necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates will also be evaluated on the following preferred qualifications:

Two or more years of experience with structured query language (SQL) in cleaning and transforming and modeling data.

Advanced professional experience analyzing, validating, and modeling data for reporting purposes.

Advanced professional experience in data analysis and reporting including the use of data visualization tools.

Experience working in Higher Education and/or working with Higher Education datasets.

Knowledge of data controls and applicable regulatory/legal requirements protecting confidential and/or sensitive data.