Educational Data Analyst - College of Medicine

University of Illinois Chicago; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Illinois Chicago seeks an Educational Data Analyst for the College of Medicine. The role will maintain relational data, aggregate and report data from multiple sources for longitudinal student assessment, program evaluation, and accreditation reporting.

Responsibilities include building dashboards, data pipelines, and reproducible reporting to support decisions in medical education, admissions, curriculum, and residency match processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, or related information management field.
• Minimum of one year IT experience in Data Analytics & Integration with BI reporting tooling.
• Experience in statistical analysis of educational data.
• Proficiency in R or another statistical programming language (e.g., Stata, SAS, SPSS, Python).

Responsibilities

• Analyze educational data to answer complex educational and institutional questions.
• Conduct statistical analyses to identify trends, predictors, and disparities in student performance and outcomes.
• Translate data analysis findings into actionable insights for educational leaders and decision-makers.
• Develop reproducible data cleaning, transformation, and aggregation processes.

Skills

Statistical analysis

R

Python

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

PowerBI

Canvas

Acuity One45

Learningspace

Oasis

eValue

Job description

Educational Data Analyst - College of Medicine

Hiring Department

College of Medicine

Location

Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID

1043052

FTE

1

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday, 9:30AM - 5:00PM

Shift

Days

# of Positions

1

Workplace Type

Hybrid

Salary Range (commensurate with experience)

$75,000.00 - 95,000.00 / Annual Salary

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation's preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent "Best Colleges" rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has nearly 260,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

UIC is seeking a Educational Data Analyst to join our College of Medicine, Administration team. This role maintain a relational database and be responsible for aggregating, analyzing, and reporting data from multiple internal and external sources for longitudinal student assessment, program evaluation, continuous quality improvement, accreditation reporting, and research and scholarship. The Educational Data Analyst will have a keen understanding of medical education processes specific to UI College of Medicine including but not limited to admissions, curriculum, assessment, and residency match in order to inform decisions around analysis and ensure validity of data. They will provide technical guidance with regard to proper data processing methods and performance standards.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyze educational data to answer complex educational and institutional questions.
• Conduct appropriate statistical analyses to identify trends, predictors, and disparities in student performance and outcomes. Identify and utilize additional analytical methods and approaches as needed.
• Translate data analysis findings into actionable insights for educational leaders and decision-makers.
• Develop efficient, reproducible processes for cleaning, transforming, and aggregating educational data. Clean and merge data from multiple internal and external educational data systems.
• Build and maintain largescale data sets, relational databases, and automated data pipelines.
• Utilize best practices for data cleaning, management, and queries to identify and aggregate data from multiple large databases housed within Information Resources, College and campus registrars, Admissions, and Educational Affairs.
• Create and maintain user-friendly data dashboards and static reports for use in program, phase, and course evaluation.
• Develop recurring reports for medical student academic progress including reporting quartile rank in class for M4 students and competency achievement for M1-M4 students.
• Support data reporting requirements for Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation and other institutional needs.
• Collect, processes, and visualizes data to help answer business questions and enable strategic decision-making. Gathers requirements, understand business needs, performs data modeling, and develops data pipelines to generate the data architecture for data analytics. Develops reproducible reporting strategies to provide insights for decision-makers.
• Establish and monitor processes to ensure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, security, and confidentiality.
• Develop and maintain documentation of data sources, definitions, workflows, analytic methods, and quality assurance procedures.
• Implement reproducible analytic and reporting workflows.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor Degree - Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, related information management field or a clinical area of study.
2. Minimum of one (1) year professional level IT experience within Data Analytics & Integration which includes demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and supporting clinical application interfaces, as well as developing, modifying, distributing, and testing reports, metrics, dashboards, and self-service reporting capabilities in the business intelligence suite of tools and applications.
3. Demonstrated experience in statistical analysis of student data in an educational setting.
4. Demonstrated proficiency in R or another statistical programming language/software (e.g., Stata, SAS, SPSS, Python), including experience with data cleaning, data manipulation, statistical analysis, and data visualization.

Please include a cover letter which outlines your interest in the role, and relevant experience pertaining to this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in statistics, educational measurement, psychometrics, or other related field, including: mathematics, data science, social sciences, public health, biostatistics.
• Proficiency in Microsoft systems (Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI)
• Prior experience with vended resources including Canvas, Acuity One45, Learningspace, Oasis, and eValue; and external data from National Board of Medical Examiners, Association of Academic Medical Colleges, and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, among others.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistics and experience in choosing appropriate statistical analyses for educational datasets and communicating findings.
• Understanding of undergraduate medical education expectations including accreditation standards from the LCME, competency-based assessment.
• Strong attention to detail, especially in ensuring accuracy for data cleaning, management, and analysis.
• Meticulous and efficient working habits with quick response time.
• Strong writing and oral presentation skills.
• Collaborative with multi-disciplinary team, exhibits patience and willingness to learn as well as to teach others.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, communicate timelines and adhere to them.

The University of Illinois System is an equal opportunity employer, including but not limited to disability and/or veteran status, and complies with all applicable state and federal employment mandates. Please visit Required Employment Notices and Posters to view our non-discrimination statement and find additional information about required background checks, sexual harassment/misconduct disclosures, and employment eligibility review through E-Verify.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.