City Colleges of Chicago’s vision is to be recognized as the city’s most accessible higher education engine of socioeconomic mobility and racial equity – empowering all Chicagoans to take part in building a stronger and more just city. The community college system’s more than 3,500 faculty and staff serve more than 60,000 students annually at seven colleges and five satellite sites.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

Reporting to the District Director of Strategic Analytics, the Senior Data Strategist plays a significant role in institutionalizing a continuous improvement and performance-based culture at City Colleges of Chicago, and ensuring fact-based accountability at program, employee and system-levels.

This position provides strategic data analysis, monitoring metrics from various data sources, developing and facilitating the tracking of leading performance indicators, and supporting district and colleges in the strategic use of data. Performs related duties as required.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Data and Analytic Support

· Conducts strategic data analyses, identifies insights and implications from institutional data, and makes recommendations for action to executive and senior staff to improve student achievement. Analyses range from basic summary descriptive tables to more complex modelling, including regression.

· Develops data dashboards and visualizations in PowerPoint, Excel and Tableau that clearly communicate complex analyses to multiple audiences, including executive and senior staff to inform institutional improvement efforts related to the strategic plan.

· Provides reports to and facilitates conversations with departments across the District to monitor progress towards key performance indicators, such as reporting and analysis of admissions trends.

· Build structures, tools and routines to institutionalize a data-driven culture of student success, including predictive models.

· Responds to ad hoc data request from CCC staff and external stakeholders regarding student and college performance using CCC’s data warehouse (Open Book); requests range from student -level data for outreach to evaluations of new programs launched at CCC.

· Provides data validation for external compliance reporting and external research projects as needed. Confirms enrollment numbers reporting to the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) align with enrollment in CCC’s data warehouse.

· Facilitates regular reviews with district/college teams to synthesize and share key insights across projects.

Institutional Data Capacity

· Assists college and District staff across departments to access timely and accurate data by creating reports in PowerPoint, Excel, Tableau or CCC’s data warehouse.

· Supports Data Strategists to gain necessary experience to expand and improve skills

· Supports the implementation, maintenance, and adoption of CCC business intelligence tools (e.g. data warehouse, Tableau) in collaboration with the Office of Information Technology (OIT).

· Develop, maintain and train teams on infrastructure (such as Sharepoint) to support knowledge management.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

Reports To District Director-Strategic Analytics

Direct Supervision None

QUALIFICATIONS

· A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, business, mathematics, economics, public policy, social sciences; or a related field of study. Master’s degree is highly preferred.

· Four years of relevant experience in research or data analysis , with demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods and statistics required

· A combination of education and experience may be taken into consideration based on the applicant’s credentials provided the minimum degree requirement is met

· High level of proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

· Experience with SQL programming or data querying preferred

· Experience with statistical analysis software (e.g., R, Python, STATA, SAS) required

· Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization tools preferred

· Experience and knowledge of building predictive models highly preferred

· Experience in quantitative statistical analysis required

· Experience using SQL Server highly preferred

· Excellent project planning and management skills.

· Strong communication skills.

· Ability to work within a culturally diverse environment.

· Ability to cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.

The intent of this job description is to provide a general description of the duties and responsibilities of this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive set of the duties and responsibilities, nor all of the necessary qualifications to perform the work.