Senior Research Analyst | Data Science for Student Success

Worcester Polytech; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA is seeking a Senior Research Analyst to strengthen data-driven decision making across academic and administrative areas. The role blends institutional research, advanced statistics, and data visualization to answer complex questions about student success and institutional effectiveness.

The analyst will identify meaningful questions, validate findings, communicate results to diverse audiences, and help expand predictive analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; master's preferred in quantitative field.
• Minimum of three years of institutional research, analytics, or data science experience.
• Experience with Python, R, SPSS, SAS or similar analytical software.
• Experience developing dashboards and data visualizations (Power BI).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with institutional leaders to define research questions and support planning decisions.
• Apply advanced statistical methods, predictive modeling, machine learning, and exploratory analysis to student success and enrollment questions.
• Translate analyses into reports, dashboards, visualizations, and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Extract, integrate, validate, and analyze data from multiple systems with reproducible workflows and documentation.
• Support survey administration, data integration, analysis, and reporting.
• Build collaborative relationships to improve data quality and evidence-based decision making.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Predictive modeling

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Python

R

SPSS

SAS

Power BI

Job description

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA is seeking a Senior Research Analyst to strengthen data-driven decision making across academic and administrative areas. The role blends institutional research, advanced statistics, and data visualization to answer complex questions about student success and institutional effectiveness.

The analyst will identify meaningful questions, validate findings, communicate results to diverse audiences, and help expand predictive analytics