Remote Senior Institutional Analytics Specialist

Radford University; Radford (VA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Radford University in Radford, VA seeks a Senior Institutional Analytics Specialist to lead institutional data reporting, governance, and analytics supporting planning, accreditation, and student success.

Working with Information Technology and campus stakeholders, you will develop dashboards, data models, and reporting resources, promote data stewardship, and ensure data accuracy and accessibility for internal decisions and external reporting; some travel to the Radford campus is required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in statistics, social sciences, business analytics, information systems, data analytics, or a closely related field; or a bachelor's degree combined with substantial directly related professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing, interpreting, and communicating complex data and analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, analyses, data visualizations, or decision-support resources that inform organizational planning, operations, and decision-making.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, including the ability to write, optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain complex queries for data extraction, transformation, and reporting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of data management principles, data quality practices, relational databases, reporting methodologies, and institutional metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to establish collaborative relationships across technical and functional units and effectively manage multiple priorities in a complex organizational environment.
• Experience translating business needs and stakeholder questions into analytical solutions, reports, dashboards, and actionable recommendations.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including the ability to explain complex analytical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience supporting external reporting requirements and associated data validation processes, including federal, state, accreditation, or other accountability reporting.
• Experience working with enterprise administrative systems such as Ellucian Banner or comparable student, financial, or human resource information systems.
• Demonstrated commitment to data stewardship, documentation, knowledge sharing, and development of sustainable business processes that promote data quality, organizational continuity, and continuity of mission-critical functions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain analytical resources that support institutional reporting, dashboards, compliance activities, and decision support.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries, reporting views, analytical datasets, and reporting logic.
• Create and maintain dashboards, visualizations, and reporting resources utilizing enterprise analytics and business intelligence platforms.
• Collaborate with Information Technology to ensure institutional reporting requirements are reflected in enterprise data resources and reporting environments.
• Translate reporting requirements into sustainable analytical solutions.
• Support validation of enterprise data resources used for reporting and analytics.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, reporting efficiency, accessibility, and analytical capabilities.

Skills

SQL

Data governance

Dashboards

Data visualization

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master's degree in statistics, social sciences, business analytics, information systems, data analytics, or a closely related field; or a bachelor's degree combined with substantial directly related professional experience.

Bachelor's degree plus substantial related professional experience

Tools

Ellucian Banner

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Radford University in Radford, VA seeks a Senior Institutional Analytics Specialist to lead institutional data reporting, governance, and analytics supporting planning, accreditation, and student success.

Working with Information Technology and campus stakeholders, you will develop dashboards, data models, and reporting resources, promote data stewardship, and ensure data accuracy and accessibility for internal decisions and external reporting; some travel to the Radford campus is required.