Data Analyst- Remote

Organizational Overview

 

Established in 2009, Complete College America (CCA) is a bold national advocate for dramatically increasing college completion rates and closing institutional performance gaps by working with states, systems, institutions, and partners to scale highly effective practices, change perspectives, and promote policies that improve student success. Complete College America is organized as an Alliance of forty-nine states, territories, and higher education consortia where executives have committed to reimagining systems to be engines of equity, prosperity, and hope. Each Alliance member sets ambitious goals for increasing college completion rates, tracks progress toward their goals, and prioritizes implementation of a set of evidence-based practices that have proven to produce more equitable outcomes for students.

 

Complete College America’s headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana. The selected candidate will have potential for remote work, with periodic in-office meetings as required.

 

Job Description

 

Reporting to the Vice President for Research, Policy, and Advocacy, the Data Analyst assists Alliance members in building understanding and functionality around data metrics and outcomes. The Data Analyst connects CCA’s data strategies to the states, systems, colleges, and universities to facilitate the expansion of data capacity within and across their organizations. This position supports colleges in their self-assessment and institutional transformation efforts, as well as creating professional development tools on how to improve data collection and implementation strategies around the predictors of college completion.

 

The selected candidate will help promote data capacity building across the CCA Alliance. Successful candidates will have prior understanding of how postsecondary student success practices work. The selected candidate will create reporting processes to demonstrate the extent to which Alliance members fulfill targets associated with student success metrics and institutional transformation goals. They will also collaborate with colleges to enhance their self-assessment capabilities and provide insights for continuous improvement.

 

Excellent written and oral communication skills are paramount for this role, as the selected candidate must be able to translate data requirements into student success ones, and vice versa. The candidate should be proficient in delivering course content to improve data collection practices around predictors of college completion, ensuring that Alliance members can effectively analyze and utilize the information.

 

An individual will be successful in this position if they can own and prioritize projects, balance tasks, and employ a team-based approach to executing strategy. Their ability to collaborate with colleges in their self-assessment and institutional transformation efforts, as well as facilitate course content on data collection improvement, will be essential for success in this role.

 

Responsibilities

 

• Collect data that inform student success reform efforts, including data related to institutional transformation and improved data collection practices

 

• Work with college leaders to translate data requirements into reports, and to promote data availability throughout a college, while supporting their self-assessment and transformation efforts

 

• Create reports on common student completion metrics, as well as on measures used to track the success of specific reform efforts, institutional transformation progress, and data collection improvements

 

• Document best practices for promoting data availability and use, especially for decision support purposes among student success leadership, and provide guidance on effective data collection for predictors of college completion

 

• Communicate report findings eloquently, in both presentation and documentation, and deliver course content on improving data collection practices

 

• Other duties as assigned, including supporting colleges in their self-assessment and institutional transformation efforts, and facilitating course content on data collection improvement around predictors of college completion

 

Job Qualifications

 

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

 

• Fluency in Microsoft Excel and Qualtrics

 

• Comfort with multiple data visualization techniques to match specific project objectives

 

• Competency in collecting and merging data from disparate sources and systems

 

• Prior professional experience in higher education sector

 

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or commensurate combination of education and professional experience. Master's degree is preferred.

 

• Ability to articulate complex higher education issues in a manner that can be understood by a wide variety of audiences

 

• A firm commitment to equity in the workplace and to the achievement of equitable outcomes in student success and college credential attainment

 

 

 

 

 

Application Process

 

Email resume and cover letter to: jobs@completecollege.org. Applications will be reviewed as received, until an ideal candidate is identified.

 

Salary

 

The salary is competitive and commensurate with relevant educational background and professional expertise.

 

Physical Demands

 

The position requires little physical effort. However, during an event, the employee may have to lift boxes with meeting supplies and documents for distribution.

 

Complete College America is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for employees, students, visitors, and stakeholders. As part of this effort, background check clearance is a condition of employment at Complete College America.

 

Complete College America is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer.