Remote Senior Data Scientist, Student Success & Insights

Texas A&M University System Offices; College Station (TX); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Data Scientist, Student Success provides advanced analysis and reporting to help A&M System leadership and member institutions better understand student pathways, outcomes, and factors associated with student success across The Texas A&M University System.

The position develops and maintains student success measures and conducts analyses related to admissions, enrollment, retention, persistence, re-enrollment, transfer pathways, degree completion, and post-graduation outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in data science, statistics, economics, higher education administration, public policy, computer science, information systems, mathematics, operations research, social sciences, or a related field.
• Ten years experience conducting advanced quantitative analysis, developing performance metrics, and translating analytical findings into strategic recommendations, with specific experience in student success analytics, institutional research, higher education data analysis, program evaluation, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Administrate the adoption and development of the Student Success Intelligence Platform.
• Conduct analyses across the student success lifecycle: Admissions funnel, Enrollment, Retention and persistence, Re-enrollment and stop-out students, Transfer pathways, Graduation and credential completion, Workforce and post-graduation outcome studies.
• Develop comprehensive set of student success measures.
• Coordinate System-level analyses and reporting in support of selected state and federal student-success reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with institutional research and student success professionals across the A&M System.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Student success analytics

Data storytelling

Leadership

SQL

Python

R

Power BI

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in data-related field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

The Senior Data Scientist, Student Success provides advanced analysis and reporting to help A&M System leadership and member institutions better understand student pathways, outcomes, and factors associated with student success across The Texas A&M University System.

The position develops and maintains student success measures and conducts analyses related to admissions, enrollment, retention, persistence, re-enrollment, transfer pathways, degree completion, and post-graduation outcomes.