Senior Associate Data Visualization Specialist - Gies College of Business

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Urbana (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is seeking a data visualization professional to design and manage Power BI dashboards that illuminate admin and academic data. You will collaborate with college clients to understand objectives, deliver actionable visuals, and ensure scalable, secure data products.

You will define best practices, train end-users, and partner with IT to maintain performance and accessibility across campus data assets.

Qualifications

• Experience creating Power BI dashboards and reports for administrative or academic data.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable visuals for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with college clients and IT Partners.

Responsibilities

• Imagine, design, build, and manage data visualizations in Power BI for admin and academic data.
• Work with college clients to meet strategic data needs with visualizations and reports.
• Define best practices for dashboards, data documentation, and security.
• Train end-users to explore and extract data in Power BI.

Skills

Power BI

Data visualization

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Project coordination

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Duties Responsibilities Data-Visualization:

• Imagine, design, build, and manage data visualizations in Microsoft Power BI that communicate and provide exploration of relevant administrative and academic data
• Work with college clients to understand their strategic objectives and data needs and provide visualizations and reports that meet those needs
• Understand the breadth of available administrative and academic data in the context of unit needs
• Ensure consistency, accessibility, quality, and performance in Gies Data Dashboard products and services
• Ensure efficiency, integration, and scalability in the design and organization of Gies Data Dashboard products
• Define best practices for data dashboards and reports include design standards, data documentation, and security
• Train data end-users how to consume, explore, and extract data in the Power BI platform
• Serve as the subject matter expert and escalated support for Power BI for the college and IT Partners.

Project Management and Collaboration:

• Work with IT Partners leadership and project managers to coordinate and prioritize data-related projects generated by IT Partners and other College units, working with other DSAR employees to ensure projects are completed within deadlines
• Manage workflow and project tracking in approved project management applications.

Campus Collaboration:

• Represent college in campus communities of practice and working groups focused on data and data visualization
• Collaborate with data specialists in other colleges as required through IT Partners agreements
• Contribute to the development of campus strategy and operational best practices for data visualization