Data Strategist

City Colleges of Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,251 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

403(b) & 457(b) investment plans

Paid vacation/holidays

Tuition waiver

Job summary

City Colleges of Chicago is seeking a Data Strategist to support their mission of improving educational outcomes through strategic initiatives. The role will analyze institutional data, provide insights to senior staff, and facilitate a data-driven culture to enhance student success.

Key qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline, significant experience in data analysis, and proficiency in Microsoft Office and SQL. Competitive salary range is $70,251 to $72,000 annually, along with excellent benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, business, mathematics, economics, or related field.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in research or data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Conduct strategic data analysis and provide recommendations.
• Monitor District and college strategic metrics.
• Support data collection and dissemination across the organization.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)

SQL programming

Quantitative and qualitative research methods

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

SAS

R

STATA

Job description

Olive-Harvey College is seeking a Data Strategist. The Office of Institutional Excellence's mission is to generate, evaluate, and implement strategic initiatives that create sustainable long-term improvements for the colleges and the district in alignment with City Colleges’ student‑centric mission, vision, and goals.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Provide data and analytic support: Conduct strategic data analysis, identify insights and implications from institutional data and make strategic recommendations to executive and senior staff. Develop data displays that clearly communicate complex analyses to multiple audiences, including executive and senior staff.
• Facilitate performance metric monitoring: Monitor District and college strategic metrics through performance dialog forums. Work with staff at different levels of the organization to create metrics, set goals and conduct analyses; use operational data in real time to develop and execute action plans focused on improving institutional practices, policies, procedures and ultimately student success. Build structures, tools and routines to institutionalize a data‑driven culture of student success.
• Work cross‑functionally across the organization: Maintain cross‑functional visibility across all departments to help push strategic initiatives forward and surface critical issues. Provide ongoing oversight and support to management and decision making to ensure that measures are being used to effectively manage operations and effect institutional change.
• Develop and refine institutional data capacity through data use: Support development of district/college‑wide data collection, analysis and dissemination of policies and practices; train researchers and staff to make meaningful data connections.
• Develop and refine institutional data capacity through knowledge sharing: facilitate regular reviews with district/college team; synthesize and share key insights across projects. Develop, maintain and train teams on infrastructure (such as SharePoint) to support knowledge management.
• Develop and refine institutional data capacity through capacity building: Help staff use data in real time, lead data capacity building trainings on data literacy. Support the development of tools, templates, and reports that address the needs of building data capacity across CCC. Provide support to the implementation, maintenance, and adoption of CCC business intelligence tools.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, business, mathematics, economics, public policy; or a related field of study.
• Master’s degree is highly preferred.
• Three years of relevant experience in research or data analysis, with demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods and statistics.
• Three years of relevant experience in higher education research, highly desirable.
• 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).
• Moderate to high level of proficiency with SQL programming or data querying.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization tools preferred.
• Experience with statistical analysis software (e.g., SAS, R, STATA) highly desirable.
• Experience in quantitative statistical analysis highly desirable.

Salary Range: $70,251 – $72,000 Annually

Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as other factors such as internal equity.

Benefits information is found at https://ww.ccc.edu/departments/Benefits/

WE OFFER

Excellent benefits include health benefits, 403(b) & 457(b) investment plans, paid vacation/holidays and City Colleges tuition waiver. Plus, enjoy working with a group of people who really love what they do. For a more detailed overview of benefits visit our benefits page.

Chicago residency is required for all full‑time employees within 6 months of hire.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Thank you for your interest in City Colleges of Chicago!