Engineering Policy & Data Analyst (Hybrid)

UW-Madison College of Engineering; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension (WRS)

Generous paid time off

Job summary

The Office of Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research (DAPIR) at UW-Madison College of Engineering is seeking an Institutional Policy Analyst to join the IRDS team. The role focuses on creating tables, reports, Tableau workbooks, and analyses to support engineering priorities and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities include responding to ad-hoc requests, presenting findings, and training others on developed resources, with an emphasis on data governance and policy context.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive experience in a role that includes data and analysis activities.
• Proficient with a relational database query tool and SQL or similar database programming languages.
• Experience working with large data sets from operational data systems.
• Experience using data and analytic approaches to evaluate the effects of policy decisions and inform policy development and/or program evaluation.
• Proficient with general inferential statistical techniques, and knowledgeable in predictive modeling concepts and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Designs, collects, analyzes, and researches institutional data according to established procedures and regulations (20%).
• Prepares and disseminates institutional statistical reports to institutional programs, working units, and leadership (20%).
• Participates in establishing guidelines and procedures to ensure adequacy, quality, and reliability of information sources to ensure information systems and databases manage, store, and retrieve institutional data according to established policies, procedures, and reporting regulations (5%).
• Provides analysis and consultation on a variety of administrative-related matters (35%).
• Serves as liaison and primary contact to internal and external stakeholders for institutional reporting and compliance, external surveys, and institutional statistics and data (20%).

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Big data

Policy analysis

Statistics

Software learning

Project management

Excel/Office

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

R/Python/SAS/SPSS/STATA

Job description

The Office of Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research (DAPIR) at UW-Madison College of Engineering is seeking an Institutional Policy Analyst to join the IRDS team. The role focuses on creating tables, reports, Tableau workbooks, and analyses to support engineering priorities and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities include responding to ad-hoc requests, presenting findings, and training others on developed resources, with an emphasis on data governance and policy context.