KPI Insights Analyst II — Higher Ed Data

Bryant & Stratton College; Town of Orchard Park (NY); On-site; USD 74,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Bryant & Stratton College in Orchard Park, NY on-site, seeks an Information Analyst II to steward KPIs and surface actionable insights for leadership. You will interpret trends, investigate drivers, and translate data into recommendations to guide decisions with a strong degree of independence.

The role emphasizes building dashboards, maintaining KPI definitions, and supporting academic and operational assessment efforts within the Institutional Research & Analytics team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree as specified.
• Three years of data analysis and institutional research experience with interpretation.
• Ability to write and optimize intermediate to complex SQL queries with joins, subqueries, aggregations, and window functions.
• Experience developing and maintaining data visualizations or dashboards in a BI tool.
• Experience presenting analytical findings to senior audiences in writing and in person.
• Advanced Excel and Office 365 skills.
• Ability to handle confidential institutional data.

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing monitoring and assessment of the College's KPI across enrollment, retention, persistence, completion, financial aid leveraging, academic program performance, and institutional effectiveness; maintain KPI framework, definitions, thresholds, and refresh cadence.
• Proactively identify variances and trends in institutional metrics and escalate to senior management with supporting analysis.
• Prepare and deliver briefings, dashboards, and written analyses for non-technical audiences with clear qualifications.
• Benchmark institutional performance against peer groups, national datasets, and historical baselines; maintain peer group methodology.
• Design and maintain the visualization layer through which KPIs are consumed across the institution.
• Develop and maintain intermediate to complex SQL queries against the data warehouse for KPI production and ad hoc analysis.
• Contribute to data governance, reconcile figures across offices, and maintain a data dictionary for KPI measures.
• Support assessment activities across the College, including program review and student learning outcomes analysis.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL queries

Data visualization & dashboards

Presentation of analytical findings

Excel / Office 365 proficiency

Interpret results for decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, social science, education, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Qlik

R

SAS

Python

Job description

Bryant & Stratton College in Orchard Park, NY on-site, seeks an Information Analyst II to steward KPIs and surface actionable insights for leadership. You will interpret trends, investigate drivers, and translate data into recommendations to guide decisions with a strong degree of independence.

The role emphasizes building dashboards, maintaining KPI definitions, and supporting academic and operational assessment efforts within the Institutional Research & Analytics team.