Data Analyst – Academic Analytics & Visualization

The University of Texas at Austin; Utah; On-site; USD 63,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts seeks a Data Analyst to support strategic planning and forecasting through data access, organization, analysis and reporting. You will work with the Dean and multiple departments to develop indicators, prepare publications and dashboards.

Responsibilities include data gathering from university sources, cleaning and merging data, creating reports, and developing visualization strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative social science or related field or experience.
• Proficiency in the MS Office Suite (particularly MS Excel), Python, R, and AI platforms (Claude, ChatGPT, and/or similar).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly convey information in person, and over email.
• Ability and willingness to learn new systems and data sources as needed.
• Exhibit patience, attentiveness, knowledge, flexibility, trustworthiness, positivity, tenacity, guidance, and willingness to collaborate.
• Appreciation of confidentiality requirements surrounding the use of sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Generate, gather, and analyze data from University and external data systems and sources.
• Collect, merge, clean, document, and otherwise prepare data from multiple disparate sources to generate reports/analyses.
• Advise, identify measures, build infrastructure and framework for collection of key indicators, organize results and interpretation, and steward the successful submission of college-level assessments and student outcomes.
• Design and carry out data collection strategies from a general problem statement or objectives.
• Support automation of routine data processes to reduce manual effort and minimize the risk of errors in recurring data workflows.
• Prepare charts and graphs to facilitate presentation and interpretation of data.
• Develop data visualization strategies.
• Plan, develop and coordinate publication of annual statistical reports.
• Identify, explore, and document legacy and new sources for data.
• Research best practice and alternative solutions to current data management and analysis applications.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Skills

MS Excel

Python

R

AI platforms (Claude, ChatGPT)

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative social science or related field

Tools

STATA

SPSS

UT Mainframe DEFINE

Workday

FileMaker Pro

Cognos

Budget Update Document (BUD)

Job description

The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Liberal Arts seeks a Data Analyst to support strategic planning and forecasting through data access, organization, analysis and reporting. You will work with the Dean and multiple departments to develop indicators, prepare publications and dashboards.

Responsibilities include data gathering from university sources, cleaning and merging data, creating reports, and developing visualization strategies.