Institutional Analyst

1 month ago

Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo Full time

Overview:
**Term: 1 Year**

Under the direction and guidance of IAP leadership, the Institutional Analyst (IA) is responsible for the development of databases, models, analyses, and reporting as well as communicating the results of analyses internal and external to IAP. The IA will pro-actively contribute to IAP’s mandate of providing data, advice, analytical and planning support to the Senior Leadership of the university to inform policy development, strategic planning, decision-making and priority-setting.

**Responsibilities**:
Institutional data analysis and reporting:

- Supports indicator development and ongoing reporting for Waterloo operational and strategic measures
- Analyzes trends and patterns in university performance over time using various benchmarks and comparative data
- Prepares annual and customized reports and presentations for senior leadership and university governance bodies, including monitoring student enrolment, retention and graduation rates, student survey outcomes, etc.
- Prepares standard and customized reports and accountability submissions for the Ministry of Advanced Education & Skills Development (MAESD), Council of Ontario Universities (COU), U15 Data Exchange and other consortia, university rankings agencies, Statistics Canada
- Uses external data from a variety of sources including Statistics Canada, in combination with institutional data to prepare analysis and reports that address research questions

Institutional data management:

- Ensures that institutional data is accurate, consistent, properly maintained and shared in compliance with relevant privacy protection, confidentiality and other ethical principles
- Identifies and addresses data integrity/reliability issues and uses data cleaning processes to achieve required data quality standards
- Works with large data sets to perform data mining and complete statistical analyses.
- Transforms, synthesizes, and cleanses data: identifies opportunities to reduce duplication and errors and to ensure consistency in data; identifies data integrity issues and proposes data cleansing processes to develop clear and consistent data quality standards
- Helps lead the adoption and standardization of new data analysis tools and techniques, in partnership with stakeholders across campus

Communication
- Develops accurate graphs, reports, dashboards and presentations to convey complex information in an understandable and compelling manner
- Creates business/analytical models and related user interfaces that allow stakeholders to self-serve and explore planning parameters
- Ensures data and information is placed into the proper context by combining university data with both qualitative and quantitative environmental/external data and appropriate narrative
- Communicates with technical and non-technical users to gather data and data system requirements, reporting requirements, consolidate and document technical data requirements, transform data into visualizations, and assist with project planning
- Ensures timely communication to University leadership, managers, campus support units, Faculties, departments, research groups, appropriate staff through appropriate media, of developments and projects; also communicates on any related events that have the potential to directly or indirectly impact normal services
- Serves on University, and as appropriate, non-University committees and groups, offering data and analytical expertise and fostering data information sharing and collaborative approaches on a variety of projects
- Liaises with other departments campus-wide in providing technical support and guidance (e.g., IST)

Student supervision
- Assists with coaching, training and co-op student development to assure student growth and development
- Provides input into regular performance reviews with direct report(s), and supports achievement of performance goals
- Assists with making decisions on the hiring of his/her direct report(s), in consultation with the Managers, Institutional Analysis and Planning

Institutional Analysts may specialize in one of the following areas of work within the IAP office:

- Evaluation and Accountability:

- Applied social science research: uses various quantitative and qualitative research methods to administer surveys, develop sampling procedures, analyze survey results, or to gather and analyze data for special research requests (literature reviews, environmental scans, needs assessments, focus group and key informant interviews)
- Strategic planning and evaluation: assesses the University’s progress towards strategic goals and priorities, and/or routine monitoring of institutional performance
- Data Analytics and Reporting
- Forecasting and predictive modelling: develops predictive and descriptive admissions and retention models using advanced statistical procedures; develops student enrolment forecasting models
- Data warehousing: designs and develops extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) proc

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