Senior Institutional Data Analyst | Hybrid (2 Remote Days)

Concordia University Chicago; Oak Park (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Disability plan

Tuition benefits

Job summary

Concordia University Chicago seeks an Institutional Data Analyst to lead data design, transformation, and visualization efforts across reporting for quality programs, student success, and effectiveness initiatives. The role emphasizes data lifecycles and collaboration with campus teams.

After onboarding, the position can work up to 2 days per week remotely, with remainder on campus, supporting strategic planning, assessment, and accreditation activities.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with R for statistical analysis.
• Data visualization experience, preferably PowerBI.
• Proficiency in SQL and command line.
• Experience with Ellucian Banner ERP.
• Experience with CRM data is helpful.
• Ability to clean, merge, maintain and analyze large datasets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead data extraction projects and write technical requirements.
• Extract and manipulate data from Ellucian Banner ERP, Blackboard, CRM and other sources.
• Develop automation scripts for repeatable data mining and analysis.
• Quality control reviewer for work by other analysts.
• Learn and promote tools like R, PowerBI, and GitHub.
• Manage survey administration and data analysis; write reports.
• Create and maintain internal and external reports using R/Excel.
• Perform statistical analysis and visualize results; produce charts and dashboards.
• Provide dashboards and performance indicator reports for university initiatives.
• Disseminate results via websites, reports, and presentations.
• Offer best-practice guidance for data-informed institutional planning; advocate software updates.

Skills

R

Data visualization

SQL

Command line

Data cleaning

Audience communication

Ethics in data

Education

Master's degree preferred in relevant field

Bachelor's degree required

Tools

Ellucian Banner ERP

PowerBI

GitHub

Excel

CRM data tools

Job description

Concordia University Chicago seeks an Institutional Data Analyst to lead data design, transformation, and visualization efforts across reporting for quality programs, student success, and effectiveness initiatives. The role emphasizes data lifecycles and collaboration with campus teams.

After onboarding, the position can work up to 2 days per week remotely, with remainder on campus, supporting strategic planning, assessment, and accreditation activities.