Hybrid Data Analyst — Educational Analytics & BI

Utah Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM); Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 39,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Utah State Board of Education (USBE) is hiring a Data Analyst to support statewide CTE research, reporting, and program evaluation. You will work with complex educational data, develop reports, dashboards, and semantic models, and provide data-driven insights to inform policy.

The role emphasizes collaboration with districts, postsecondary partners, and IT teams, with a hybrid in-office schedule in Salt Lake City, Utah. A degree in statistics, data analytics, or education is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in research, data analysis, program evaluation, or BI work.
• Experience writing T-SQL queries and SQL Server.
• Experience with large, complex datasets and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Analyze statewide student, program, accountability, fiscal, workforce, and performance data to support CTE programs.
• Develop recurring and ad hoc reports for program management and leadership decisions.
• Write and maintain T-SQL queries to extract and analyze data from SQL Server and other systems.
• Ensure data integrity and quality through validation and QA processes.
• Design and maintain dashboards and BI solutions using Power BI and Fabric.
• Conduct statistical analyses and trend analyses using R or similar tools.
• Communicate findings through reports and visualizations for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data needs and reporting requirements.
• Support Perkins V and state/federal accountability reporting.

Skills

Data analysis

Research

Program evaluation

Business intelligence

Data quality

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in statistics, data analytics, statistics, education, or related field

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

R

Python

SAS

SPSS

Job description

Utah State Board of Education (USBE) is hiring a Data Analyst to support statewide CTE research, reporting, and program evaluation. You will work with complex educational data, develop reports, dashboards, and semantic models, and provide data-driven insights to inform policy.

The role emphasizes collaboration with districts, postsecondary partners, and IT teams, with a hybrid in-office schedule in Salt Lake City, Utah. A degree in statistics, data analytics, or education is required.